It is directly east of the Virginia Heights Historic District.

They were built in two phases beginning in 1942 and ending in 1945, and consist of 233 single-family dwellings contracted by the Federal government to house the families of young officers and ranking officials.

They are two-story, two- and three-bay, paired brick or concrete block dwellings in the Colonial Revival-style.

They were built under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers by the Defense Housing Corporation.

This article about a property in Arlington County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.