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Penrose Historic District

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Built
  
1882 (1882)-1943

VLR #
  
000-8823

Area
  
51 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
04000112

Designated VLR
  
December 3, 2003

Added to NRHP
  
15 November 2004

Penrose Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Arlington Blvd., S. Courthouse Rd., S. Fillmore St., S. Barton St. S, and Columbia Pike, Arlington, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals

The Penrose Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It contains 486 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing object in a residential neighborhood in South Arlington. The area was created with the integration of 12 distinct subdivisions platted between 1882 and 1943. The dwelling styles include the late-19th and early-20th-century vernacular, Queen Anne, Italianate, and Colonial Revival farm dwellings. A notable number of these dwellings are prefabricated kit or mail-order houses.

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

References

Penrose Historic District Wikipedia