Ashton Heights Historic District

Ashton Heights is a residential neighborhood in central Arlington County, Virginia, about three miles from Washington, D.C. Ashton C. Jones platted it in 1921 on roughly sixty-one acres and it grew through 23 additions to about 220 acres. The northern part began developing before 1921 as part of Clarendon. The district holds 1,099 contributing resources and 162 noncontributing ones, mainly single-family houses built before 1950. Colonial Revival makes up over 60 percent of the building stock, and bungalows with Craftsman detailing account for over 31 percent. Tudor Revival houses, Queen Anne dwellings, American Foursquares, Cape Cods and at least ten Sears kit houses add variety. Garden apartments such as the Kenmore Apartments, three churches, the Women's Club of Ashton Heights and Columbia Gardens Cemetery are also within the boundaries. Mature shade trees planted under the subdivision plan line many of the gridded streets. The district was listed as a representative example of early and mid-20th-century suburban growth in Arlington.