Parkfairfax is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, located in the northwestern part of the city near the boundary with the Arlington County. A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised Community within a larger City, Town or Alexandria is an Independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Nearby thoroughfares are Interstate 395 (Shirley Highway), State Route 402 (Quaker Lane), and West Glebe Road. Interstate 395 (abbreviated I-395) in Virginia is a 13 mile (21 km long spur route that begins at a junction with Interstate 95 in Springfield Virginia The Henry G Shirley Memorial Highway was the first limited access freeway in the U State Route 402, also known as part of Quaker Lane, is a primary State highway in Alexandria Virginia, United States. State Route 120 is a primary State highway forming a crescent-shaped route through Arlington County Virginia, United States.
The neighborhood consists of 1,684 townhouse-type condominium apartments in more than 200 buildings on 132 acres (53 ha) built in 1941 and 1942 by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York at the request of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to provide housing near the new Pentagon. In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses A condominium, or condo, is a form of Housing tenure and other Real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate (usually of an apartment The acre is a unit of Area in a number of different systems including the imperial and U Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, MetLife Inc is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company or MetLife for short The City of New York The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by The Pentagon is the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia. Like neighboring Fairlington, Parkfairfax is listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and on the Virginia Landmarks Register. The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP is the United States government's official list of districts sites buildings structures and objects deemed worthy of The Virginia Landmarks Register is a list of historic properties in the state of Virginia.
The name is similar to those of other Metropolitan Life projects that use a local area name preceded by "park" (e. g. , Parkchester, Parklabrea, and Parkmerced) despite the area not having been a part of Fairfax County since 1801. Parkchester is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the south central Bronx, New York City. Park La Brea (Spanish La Brea - The tar after the nearby La Brea Tar Pits) is a sprawling apartment complex in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles Parkmerced, the largest neighborhood of apartment blocks west of the Mississippi River, is a Planned neighborhood of high-rise apartment towers and low-rise garden Fairfax County is a county in Northern Virginia, in the United States. [1]
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History
Parkfairfax was originally on 202 acres (82 ha) and was the only Metropolitan Life project of this type to have no high rise buildings. Explanation The hectare is commonly used in most countries around the world especially in domains concerned with land planning and management such as Agriculture, A high-rise is a tall Building or structure Normally the function of the building is added for example high-rise Apartment building or
Former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford both lived in Parkfairfax for a time when they were in the United States Congress. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses
From 1977 to 1979, Parkfairfax was renovated and sold as condominium apartments.
Recreation and commerce
The town of Shirlington provides restaurants, stores, bars, live theater, a cinema, and the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail trailhead within walking distance for Parkfairfax residents via a pedestrian walkway that crosses the Shirlington Circle interchange with I-395. The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park is a popular and unusually-shaped Regional park in Northern Virginia. Shirlington Circle is a Traffic circle interchange connecting I-395 ( Shirley Highway) with several surface roads in two Virginia
Notes
- ^ The area was part of Arlington County and its predecessors until it was annexed by the independent city of Alexandria in 1929. An independent city is a City that does not form part of another general-purpose Local government entity
References
- "Complex Analysis: Not-So-Secret Garden-Style Units of Fairlington, Parkfairfax Grow in Popularity and Price" from the Washington Post
- History of Parkfairfax
External links
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