Monroe Courts Historic District
Monroe Courts Historic District | |
Monroe Courts, June 2009 | |
Location | Bounded by 10th St N, N. Monroe St., Washington Blvd. and N. Nelson St., Arlington, Virginia |
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Coordinates | 38°53′09″N 77°6′18″W / 38.88583°N 77.10500°W |
Area | 2.4 acres (0.97 ha) |
Built | 1938 |
Architect | Cobb, John D.; Gosnell, Clarence W. |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960 MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 08000064[1] |
VLR No. | 000-4105 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | February 21, 2008 |
Designated VLR | December 5, 2007[2] |
The Monroe Courts Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It contains 39 contributing buildings in a residential neighborhood in northern Arlington. They were built in 1938, and consist of four groups of two-story, two-bay, rowhouse dwellings in a vernacular Colonial Revival-style. They were built for a middle-class clientele in a fast-growing commuter suburb of Washington, D.C.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
- ^ Elizabeth Breiseth; Laura V. Trieschmann; Saleh Van Erem; Jeanne Barnes; Paul Weishar & Kacey Young (September 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Monroe Courts Historic District" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos and Accompanying map Archived 2012-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
Categories:
- Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
- Historic districts in Arlington County, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- Northern Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Arlington County, Virginia geography stubs