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Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).
The Charles Richard Drew House is a historic house at 2505 1st Street in Arlington, Virginia.A vernacular early 20th-century dwelling, it is of national significance as the home from 1920 to 1939 of Charles Richard Drew (1904–50), an African-American physician whose leadership on stockpiling of blood plasma saved lives during World War II.
Location of Arlington County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia, United States.
In July 1939, Ring, now a successful businessman, had developed $37 million of the FHA's $100 million of rental housing insurance. For Arlington Village in 1939, Ring bought 33 acres of potato patch from B. M. Smith across from the Hull house for $362,000, with the rest of the 53 acres purchased from a number of other parties.
It has a standing seam metal shed roof and full-width one-story front porch. It was built by Harry W. Gray (c.1851-1913), a former slave on General Robert E. Lee's Arlington House estate and the son of Selina Gray. It is a rare example of the brick rowhouse in Arlington County. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
The current structure was built in 1926, a 2½-story Dutch Colonial Revival building on the main foundation of the earlier house. [2] The current building is home of The Woodford Inn, a 10-room bed and breakfast inn. Prior to becoming The Woodford Inn, it was The Cleveland Home, a residential facility for girls through age 17, until its closure ...
The house is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, with number 000-0003. [7] The National Park Service listed the house on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972. [3] [8] The Arlington County Board designated the building as a local historic district on January 7, 1984 ...
Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army general who lived at [Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial[|Arlington House]] [18] George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army general during World War II [19] Blake Wayne Van Leer, commander and captain, United States Navy, led the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze