List of Arlington County Historic Districts
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This is a list page of all Historic Districts officially recognized by Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The land that became Arlington was originally donated by Virginia to the United States government to form part of the new federal capital district. On February 27, 1801, the United States Congress organized the area as a subdivision of...

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Cemeteries

  • Ball-Carlin cemetery
  • Old Ball family burial grounds
  • Southern-Shreve cemetery
  • Travers family graveyard
  • Walker Chapel and cemetery

Commercial properties and endeavors

  • Al's Motors/Gold's Gym
  • Arlington Radio Towers
  • Arlington Mill
  • Carlin Springs
  • Chain Bridge
    Chain Bridge (Washington, D.C.)
    The Chain Bridge is a viaduct which crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C. It carries close to 22,000 cars a day. It connects Washington with affluent sections of Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia. On the Washington side, the bridge connects with Canal Road...

  • Dan Kain Building
  • Little Falls Road
  • Mouth of Pimmit Run
  • Washington National Airport and South Hangar Line

Community-use structures

  • Arlington Post Office
  • Barcroft Community House
  • Carlin Community Hall
  • Cherrydale Volunteer Firehouse
  • Clarendon Citizen's Hall

Dwellings

  • Alcova
  • Arlington House
    Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
    Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, formerly named the Custis-Lee Mansion, is a Greek revival style mansion located in Arlington, Virginia, USA that was once the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It overlooks the Potomac River, directly across from the National Mall in Washington,...

  • John Ball House (Ball-Sellers House)
  • Birchwood
    Birchwood (Arlington, Virginia)
    Birchwood is a log house reconstructed in 1936 using logs from an earlier structure built in about 1836. The first log house on the site was an even earlier structure built by Caleb Birch in approximately 1800 that burned down....

  • Calvert Manor
    Calvert Manor
    Calvert Manor, built in 1948, is an historic apartment building located at 1925-1927 North Calvert Street in Arlington, Virginia. It was designed by noted Washington, D.C. Armenian-American architect Mihran Mesrobian in the Moderne style. Mesrobian was also the builder and owner of Calvert Manor...

  • Mary Carlin House
  • George Crossman House
  • Dawson-Bailey House
  • Charles Richard Drew House
    Charles Richard Drew House
    Charles Richard Drew House was a home of Afro-American doctor Charles Richard Drew, whose leadership on stockpiling of blood plasma saved lives during World War II....

  • Eastman-Fenwick House
  • Glebe of Fairfax Parish
  • Glenmore is a home in Arlington County in the U.S. state
    U.S. state
    A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

     of Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

     overlooking the Potomac River
    Potomac River
    The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The river is approximately long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles...

    . It was built in the early 20th century for William F. Roberts and was designed by the Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

     architect Appleton P. Clark.
  • Harry Gray House
  • Prospect Hill
    Prospect Hill (Arlington, Virginia)
    Prospect Hill was a mansion built in 1841 by successful contractor James Roach in Arlington County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The house was built on Arlington Ridge Road. The house was demolished in 1965, but an historic marker has been placed at the site.Prospect Hill has been recognized as...

  • Reevesland
  • John Saegmuller House

Military-use structures

  • Arlington Line
    Arlington Line
    The Arlington Line was a series of fortifications erected in present-day Arlington County, Virginia, to protect the City of Washington during the American Civil War....

  • Battery Garesche
    Battery Garesche
    Battery Garesche or Battery Garesché was a Union Army artillery battery built as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. in the American Civil War at what is now Abingdon Street at South 30th Road in Fairlington, Arlington County, Virginia...

  • Confederate Outpost
  • Fort Albany
    Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia)
    Fort Albany was a bastioned earthwork built by the Union Army in Arlington County in Virginia. It was built in 1861 as part of the defense of Washington during the American Civil War.The fort...

  • Fort Ethan Allen
    Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia)
    Fort Ethan Allen was an earthwork fortification built on the property of Gilbert Vanderwerken in Alexandria County, Virginia, by the Union Army in 1861 as part of the defense of Washington during the American Civil War. The remains of the fort, a portion of the earthen walls, now overgrown, are...

  • Fort Barnard
  • Fort Bennett
    Fort Bennett
    Fort Bennett was originally called the Post at Cheyenne River Agency and was established during the Indian wars in the Department of Dakota by the U.S. Army to control the Sioux.-History:...

  • Fort Berry
  • Fort Cass (Virginia)
  • Fort Craig
    Fort Craig
    Fort Craig was a U.S. Army fort located along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, near Elephant Butte Lake State Park and the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico....

  • Fort Corcoran
    Fort Corcoran
    Fort Corcoran was a wood-and-earthwork fortification constructed by the Union Army in northern Virginia as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War...

  • Fort Haggerty
  • Fort Myer Historic District
    Fort Myer
    Fort Myer is a U.S. Army post adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. It is a small post by U.S...

  • Fort Reynolds
    Fort Reynolds (Virginia)
    Fort Reynolds was a Union Army redoubt built as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War.The fort was located in Fairlington, Arlington County, Virginia. It was constructed in September 1861 to command the approach to Alexandria by the Four Mile Run valley and was itself...

  • Fort Richardson
    Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia)
    Fort Richardson was a detached redoubt constructed by the Union Army in September 1861 as part of the defense of Washington during the American Civil War....

  • Fort Runyon
    Fort Runyon
    Fort Runyon was a timber and earthwork fort constructed by the Union Army following the occupation of northern Virginia in the American Civil War in order to defend the southern approaches to the Long Bridge as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. during that war...

  • Fort Scott
    Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia)
    Named for General Winfield Scott, who was then General-in-Chief of the Union Army, Fort Scott was a detached lunette constructed in May 1861 to guard the south flank of the defenses of Washington during the American Civil War...

  • Fort C.F. Smith Historic District
    Fort C. F. Smith Historic District (Arlington, Virginia)
    The Fort C. F. Smith Historic District in Arlington, Virginia, also known as Fort C.F. Smith Park and identified as DHR File No. 0005079, Archeology No. AR31, has history dating to 1863. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.It is a area including one contributing...

  • Fort Strong
    Fort Strong
    Fort Strong is located on Long Island in Boston Harbor.It was originally named Long Island Military Reservation until 1899.Camp Wightman, a Civil War training camp, was located on the island in 1861....

  • Fort Tillinghast
  • Fort Whipple
  • Fort Woodbury
    Fort Woodbury
    Fort Woodbury was part of the Arlington Line, an extensive network of fortifications erected in present-day Arlington County, Virginia to protect Washington, D.C. from Confederate attack during the American Civil War...

  • Minor's Hill
    Minor's Hill
    Minor’s Hill is a geographic eminence located in the western tip of Arlington County, Virginia. Its summit rises to 459 feet above sea level.- Location :...

  • Pentagon Office Building Complex
  • Quarters 1, Fort Myer

Neighborhoods, boundary stones, and roadways

  • Arlington Village Historic District
  • Ashton Heights Historic District
  • Ball's Crossroads
  • Ballston
    Ballston, Virginia
    Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia and is home to the Ballston-MU station on the Orange Line of the Metrorail subway system.-History:...

  • Barcroft
  • Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia
  • Brandymore Castle
  • Buckingham Historic District
  • Cherrydale Historic District
  • Colonial Village Historic District
  • Commons of Arlington Historic District
  • Fairlington Historic District
  • Freedman's Village
  • George Washington Memorial Parkway
    George Washington Memorial Parkway
    The George Washington Memorial Parkway, known to local motorists simply as the "G.W. Parkway", is a parkway maintained by the U.S. National Park Service. It is located mostly in Northern Virginia, although a short section northwest of the Arlington Memorial Bridge passes over Columbia Island,...

  • Hunter's Crossroads
  • Jackson City
  • Key Bridge
    Francis Scott Key Bridge (Washington)
    The Francis Scott Key Bridge, more commonly known as the Key Bridge, is a six-lane reinforced concrete arch bridge conveying U.S. Route 29 traffic across the Potomac River between the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C...

  • Maywood Historic District
  • Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
  • Wunder's Crossroads

People

  • Moses Ball Grant
  • Clay and Randolph duel
  • Necostin Indians
  • George Nicholas Seagmuller

Places of worship

  • Site of Arlington Chapel
  • Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church
  • Mt. Olivet Methodist Church
    Mt. Olivet Methodist Church
    Mt. Olivet Methodist Church is a historic church in Lancaster, Kentucky.It was built in 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985....

  • Mt. Zion Baptist Church
  • Walker Chapel and cemetery

Schools

  • Clarendon School
    Clarendon School
    Clarendon School is a historic school building located in Arlington, Virginia. The structure was built in 1910 based on a design by noted Virginia architect Charles M. Robinson. In 1944, the building was renamed the Matthew Maury Elementary School. The building ceased operating as a school after...

  • Drew School
    Drew School
    Drew School is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory high school located in San Francisco, California, United States...

  • Hume School
    Hume School
    The Hume School is an 1891 former school building in the Arlington Ridge neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia. It is the oldest school building in Arlington County It has been the home of the Arlington Historical Society since 1960...

  • Matthew F. Maury School
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