{"nrhp_refnum":"08000063","name":"Arlington Heights Historic District","other_names":["000-3383"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Arlington Blvd., S. Fillmore St., S. Walter Reed Dr., Columbia Pk., & S. Glebe Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Arlington County","state":"VA","lat":38.86516810100005,"lon":-77.09171741409057,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 177-acre residential neighborhood in central Arlington County, Virginia, about four miles west of Washington, D.C., bounded by Arlington Boulevard, Columbia Pike, South Walter Reed Drive, South Fillmore Street and South Glebe Road. It formed from twenty-five subdivisions platted between 1909 and 1978.","why_significant":"The district shows two phases of suburban development, before and after World War II, driven by middle-class commuters. It contains a consistent range of Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Tudor Revival and later house types, including Sears mail-order houses. The form states that overall integrity remains intact despite replacement materials and small additions.","narrative":"Arlington Heights is a 177-acre residential neighborhood in central Arlington County, Virginia, roughly four miles west of Washington, D.C. It grew from twenty-five subdivisions platted between 1909 and 1978, beginning with modest single-family houses on former farmland. Development came in two phases, before and after World War II, as middle-class commuters moved in to meet wartime housing demand. The district holds more than 900 resources on 610 properties, mostly single and twin dwellings, along with garden apartments, a high-rise apartment building, a synagogue, a parsonage, a middle school with community center, and two parks. Colonial Revival is the dominant style, making up well over 70 percent of the housing built after 1935. Craftsman bungalows, American Foursquares, Tudor Revival houses, Cape Cods and ranch houses also appear, including two Sears mail-order bungalows from the 1920s. Despite replacement siding and small additions, the neighborhood retains its overall integrity and its historic character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"C. D. Burger (built fifteen houses in the Robert R. Dye subdivision in 1936)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman); Mid-20th Century/Modern Movement","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in active use as a residential neighborhood with a synagogue, commercial building, middle school/community center and two parks; overall integrity described as intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.493448-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/6785/41678540/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000063.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000063/355e09d7de-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000063/355e09d7de-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Farragutful","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arlington_Heights_Historic_District_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Farragutful</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:Arlington_Heights_Historic_District_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678540","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_Heights_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711974"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/arlington-county/arlington-heights-historic-district-08000063/"}