The Highland Park-Overlee Knolls Historic District encapsulates residential subdivision design and development in Arlington County from the late-19th-century through to the mid-20th-century. A suburb of Washington D.C., the district was established with the arrival of the railroad and streetcar and expanded during the first half of the 20th century with the advent of more rails, and later buses and cars. The Highland Park-Overlee Knolls Historic District provides one of the best illustrations in Arlington County of how the Federal Housing Administration influenced neighborhood planning and the Better Homes movement fostered residential development within the individual subdivisions.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia