It contains 657 contributing buildings (including 656 apartment units) in a residential neighborhood in South Arlington.

The garden apartments are presented as two-story, brick rowhouses with Colonial Revival detailing.

The front court elevations were designed with Attic medallions, varying colonial door and window surrounds, porches, shutters, gambrel roofs of slate, dormers, and careful landscaping.

[5] Ring sold the development to New England Life in 1950, at that time he had increased his original investment 666%.

The family of then-Congressman Albert Gore Sr. had a Washington, DC area residence in Arlington Village.