Cherrydale Historic District

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.