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Map from 1900 by Howell & Taylor, showing Clarendon in Arlington, VA. First platted in 1900 at the top of a hill on the Georgetown-Falls Church Road (now Wilson Boulevard), Clarendon evolved into Arlington County's original "downtown" after the arrival of electric trolleys in 1896.
The east-west arteries from north to south include Williamsburg Boulevard, Yorktown Boulevard, Lee Highway (U.S. Route 29), Wilson Boulevard, U.S. Route 50 (Arlington Boulevard), State Route 244 (Columbia Pike) and Four Mile Run Drive. Another main artery, Washington Boulevard, previously a cow path, runs both east-west and north-south.
The Rosslyn Twin Towers are twin office buildings located at 1000 and 1100 Wilson Boulevard in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. They were the tallest buildings in the Washington metropolitan area for three decades until the completion of 1812 N Moore, a block away, in 2013. They remain the tallest twin towers in the region and ...
Clarendon station is a side platformed Washington Metro station in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, United States. The station was opened on December 1, 1979, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The station serves the Orange and Silver Lines. In 2017, over 4,000 commuters used ...
Arlington Tower 250 (76) 19 1980 Rosslyn Office [25] 22 Hilton Arlington & Towers 246 (75) 26 1980 Ballston Hotel Contains a Hilton Hotel with the Alta Vista (condos) on the top floors. [26] [27] 23 Ballston Place 244 (74) 24 2001 Ballston Residential [28] 24 1101 Wilson Boulevard 230 (70) 24 1989 Rosslyn
Rosslyn encompasses the Arlington neighborhoods of North Rosslyn and Radnor/Ft. Myer Heights, and is located east of Court House, another urbanized Arlington neighborhood. Characterized as one of several " urban villages " by the county, the numerous skyscrapers in the dense business section of Rosslyn make its appearance in some ways more ...
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The center opened in 1962 as the Plaza Seven Shopping Center, with a Grand Union supermarket and a Zayre discount store serving as anchors. [4] After the Grand Union store closed in 1984, Vietnamese merchants displaced from the "Little Saigon" area in the Clarendon neighborhood of nearby Arlington, Virginia, due to Washington Metro subway construction and redevelopment moved into the space, as ...