{"nrhp_refnum":"03000461","name":"Cherrydale Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File Number 000-7821"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lorcom Ln., N. Utah and N. Taylor Sts., and I-66","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Arlington County","state":"VA","lat":38.89332794100005,"lon":-77.11115346603005,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential neighborhood historic district in central Arlington County, Virginia, about three and a half miles from Washington, D.C. It is roughly bounded by Lorcom Lane, Interstate 66, and North Utah and North Taylor Streets, with Lee Highway as its commercial corridor.","why_significant":"The form describes a largely intact early-to-mid 20th-century suburb of 887 properties, mostly single-family houses in modest suburban versions of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman bungalow and other styles. It documents the platting and growth of Cherrydale from the late 1800s through 1953 as a self-sufficient suburb of Washington. The certifying official recommended local significance.","narrative":"Cherrydale is a suburban neighborhood in central Arlington County, Virginia, about three and a half miles from Washington, D.C. The historic district holds 887 properties, including 829 single-family houses, twenty-seven multiple dwellings, four churches with a church school, twenty-two commercial buildings, a fire station and a meeting hall. Development began with Schutt family land along what are now Lee Highway and North Quincy Street, and twenty-two subdivisions followed between 1905 and 1926. Most houses are wood frame, though locally made concrete block was widely used for foundations and structures by the 1920s. Styles are modest and suburban in scale, including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italianate and Tudor Revival, with bungalows the most popular form in the 1910s and 1920s. Some homes were mail-order kits, including a Sears house on Stafford Street. The district is significant as a record of how a rural crossroads grew into a self-sufficient streetcar-era and automobile-era suburb by 1953.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Italianate), Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, and Modern Movement/International","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely residential, with continuing commercial, religious, school, fire station and meeting hall uses; contributing and noncontributing resources are both counted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.145055-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/6795/41679592/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000461.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000461/f1729bb8dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000461/f1729bb8dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nashpaul","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherrydale.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nashpaul</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherrydale.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679592","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrydale_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712162"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/arlington-county/cherrydale-historic-district-03000461/"}