Colonial Village (Arlington, Virginia) facts for kids

Colonial Village
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Roughly bounded by Wilson Boulevard, Lee Hwy., N. Veitch St. and Queens Lane, Arlington, Virginia
Area	40 acres (16 ha)
Built	1935 (1935)-1940
Architect	Warwick, Harvey; Koenig, Francis
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Garden Apartments, Apartment Houses and Apartment Complexes in Arlington County, Virginia MPS
NRHP reference No.	80004170
Quick facts for kids Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 9, 1980

Colonial Village is a historic garden apartment complex located at Arlington County, Virginia, United States. It contains 226 contributing buildings built in four stages between 1935 and 1940. The buildings hold approximately 1,055 apartments. The brick Colonial Revival-style buildings are situated around courtyards with clusters of five and seven buildings to larger groupings of up to thirteen. Colonial Village was the first Federal Housing Administration-insured, large-scale, rental housing project erected in the United States. The complex has been converted to condominiums split into three phases (Colonial Village I, Colonial Village II, and Colonial Village III) and two apartment complexes: Colonial Village Apartments and Colonial Village West.

Background

The Arlington County Board designated the garden apartment complex to be a local historic district on December 5, 1978. The National Park Service listed the Village on the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1990.

It was ranked as the best neighborhood to live in America in 2024.