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For Sale: Historic Properties, Arlington Oaks Condos

For Sale: Historic Properties, Arlington Oaks Condos

Arlington Oaks is part of the Buckingham Village National Register Historic District. Buckingham is a historic garden apartments community listed on the National Register of Historic Places (1999), the Virginia Landmarks Register (1998) and as an Arlington County Local Historic District (1993). (The full nominations with detailed information are available online (first nomination) (2003 boundary increase) and 2009 boundary increase. The community is significant for its role in demonstrating how Federal housing policy was changing from largely government owned complexes…

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Rare Lustron Home for Sale: 2915 7th Street South

Rare Lustron Home for Sale: 2915 7th Street South

A rare and historic Lustron home in Arlington is for sale (click here for the listing), and Preservation Arlington is concerned that it is vulnerable to demolition, which would erase another part of Arlington’s architectural history. In the buoyant years after the end of World War II, an enterprising man named Carl Strandlund envisioned a new kind of home for modern families: the Lustron. These prefabricated, all-steel houses were considered marvels of modern efficiency and style, and advertisements called them…

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