Arlington Forest

 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, residential neighborhood, historic district, Colonial Revival (architecture)

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"The subdivision comprising the Arlington Forest Historic District reveals the innovative trends for suburban planning and house designs of the World War II era advocated by the Federal Housing Administration. Begun in 1939, completed in 1946, Arlington Forest incorporated curvilinear streets and cul-de-sacs, ample lots, community parklands, and a neighborhood shopping center. Homeowners were enjoined to restrictive covenants. The community was developed by Meadowbrook, Inc., a leading mid-20th-century builder in the Washington, D.C., area, under the direction of Monroe Warren. Meadowbrook collaborated with locally prominent architect Robert O. Scholz to design orderly rows of modest-sized, two-story, brick homes with minimal Colonial Revival detailing differentiated by alternating roof shapes, placement of main entrances and porches, the mixed use of brick and weatherboard, and dissimilar fenestration. In 1948, the last section of the subdivision, Broyhill’s Addition, was completed by another well-known regional builder, M.T. Broyhill & Sons, that teamed with local architect J. Raymond Mims, to create homes compatible to those of Meadowbrook in materials, form, and architectural style."
--Virginia Department of Historic Resources