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U.S. Army Signals Intelligence Service personnel at Arlington Hall (c. 1943) A DIA office at Arlington Hall Station (c. 1970s). Arlington Hall was founded in 1927 as a private post-secondary women's educational institution, which by 1941, was on a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) campus and was called the Arlington Hall Junior College for Women.
Due to dwindling enrollment and the economic ramifications of the Great Depression, Arlington Hall was sold to the U.S. Army Signal Command in 1941. During and following World War II, Arlington Hall was a military intelligence center and employed over 8,000 people. [2]
Arlington Hall, a two-thirds scale replica of Arlington House, was built in 1939 in Robert E. Lee Park, now Turtle Creek Park, in Dallas, Texas. [64] The façade of the Old Administration Building in Arlington National Cemetery resembles that of Arlington House. The building is 500 feet (150 m) west of Arlington House. [65]
Hall's Hill was a walled enclave, in segregated Arlington County, Virginia. In 2019, part of the wall was damaged. [3] [4] Residents could shop at Lee Highway (now Langston Boulevard) and Glebe Road. [5] There was a volunteer fire station, Halls Hill Volunteer Fire Department, since there was not county fire service until 1951. [6]
Arlington County is coextensive with the U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the eighth-most populous county in the Washington metropolitan area with a population of 238,643 as of the 2020 census. [2] If Arlington County were incorporated as a city, it would rank as the third-most populous city in the ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington County, Virginia. ... Carlin Hall. August 12, 1993 5711 4th St., S. ...
On 1 January 1977, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) was organized at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, to provide the U.S. Army with a single organization for conducting multi-discipline intelligence, security operations, and electronic warfare at the level above corps.
Most of the land occupied by Henderson Hall was originally owned by the Custis family and later the Syphax family. [1] [2] Maria Carter Syphax, the matriarch of the Syphax family, was rumored to be the mulatto daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington and founder of the Arlington Estate on the banks of the Potomac River (later the home of Robert E. Lee). [3]