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Glebe Center

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Area
  
0 acres (0 ha)

Built by
  
F&W Construction

Architectural style
  
Art Deco, Moderne

Added to NRHP
  
11 February 2004

Built
  
1940 (1940)

Architect
  
Mesrobian, Mihran

Opened
  
1940

Glebe Center

Location
  
71-89 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, Virginia

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Glebe Center, also known as Glebe Shopping Center, is a historic shopping center located in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. It was designed by noted Washington, D.C. architect Mihran Mesrobian and built in 1940. It is a one-story, "L"-shaped cinder-block building with a flat parapet roof and clad in a six-course, American-bond brick veneer with cast-stone decorative accents. It features large store-front windows, Art Deco decorative elements, and a central square tower surmounted by a glass-block clerestory capped by a pyramidal-shaped metal roof. It was built to serve the residents of the Buckingham apartment complex and Ashton Heights, as well as the many motorists traveling along Arlington Boulevard and North Glebe Road.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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References

Glebe Center Wikipedia