Monroe Courts Historic District

Monroe Courts Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Monroe Courts, June 2009
Location	Bounded by 10th St N, N. Monroe St., Washington Blvd. and N. Nelson St., Arlington, Virginia
Coordinates	38°53′09″N 77°6′18″W / 38.88583°N 77.10500°WCoordinates: 38°53′09″N 77°6′18″W / 38.88583°N 77.10500°W
Area	2.4 acres (0.97 ha)
Built	1938
Architect	Cobb, John D.; Gosnell, Clarence W.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960 MPS
NRHP Reference #	08000064[1]
VLR #	000-4105
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	February 21, 2008
Designated VLR	December 5, 2007[2]

The Monroe Courts Historic District is a national historic district located at Arlington County, Virginia. It contains 39 contributing buildings in a residential neighborhood in northern Arlington. They were built in 1938, and consist of four groups of two-story, two-bay, rowhouse dwellings in a vernacular Colonial Revival-style. They were built for a middle-class clientele in a fast-growing commuter suburb of Washington, D.C.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.^[1]

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
3. Elizabeth Breiseth, Laura V. Trieschmann, Saleh Van Erem, Jeanne Barnes, Paul Weishar, and Kacey Young (September 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Monroe Courts Historic District" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos and Accompanying map