Evening star., 1942-04-10
Project
In Arlington 10
Cost IS Million
Seminary Heights
Apartments to Be
Biggest in D. G. Area

Seminary Heights" huge apart
ment housing project being erected
in Southwest Arlington County, will
be the largest undertaking of its
kind in the Washington area, it was
disclosed today. SO
General plans for the project were
announced several weeks ago. De- I
tails, revealed today, show that it's
will cost between $4,000, 900 and
$4,000, 900 and contain $500 family
units. T7
The project is located in the ex-
treme southwest portion of the
county, adjoining the Alexandria
city and Fairfax County lines, and
is being erected by the Defense
Homes Corp. of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. Building is already
under way on temporary permits
issued by the county building
inspectors Office.
Regular permits for the enterprise
are expected to be issued within
week or 10 days, pending the filing
of final ground development plats,
Zoning Administrator Donald r.
Locke announced.
340-Acre Site Acquired.
The development is diagonally
across the Leesbug pike from the
Virginia Theological Seminary and
across Seminary road from the
1,800-unit apartment project In
Alexandria now under construction
by the METROPOLITAN Life Insurance
Co. of New York
Three hundred and forty acres
have been acquired by Defense
Homes Corp. as the site for the prof.
ect. The projected Army Navy boule-
vard-a dual-lane, linited-access
express highway. which will lead from
the Memorial Bridge, skirting the
new War Department Building and
bypass Alexandria to Woodbridge,
Va.-will pass directly through the
center of the Seminary Heights
project. The apartments are about
2 miles from the War Department
Building by way of the projected
Army Navy boulevard.
The living units will include one,
two and three bedroom apartments.
the largest apartments having six
rooms and two baths.
"A few of the apartments are
larger than some of the houses
now built in the county" Mr.. Locke
said.
Most of the apartments will have
upstairs and downstairs rooms.
Front and back yards also will be
provided for each unit.
Colonial Exteriors.
The buildings will be of brick with
pitched slate roofs and will have
Colonial exteriors. There will be
about IL family units for each acre
of land, Mr.. Locke said.
The Defense Homes Corp. has
donated a 10-acre tract to- the
county to be used as a public school
site.
The project more than meets the
requirements of the most stringent
apartment zone which is proposed
in a master zoning ordnance now
pending before the County Board,
the coming administrator declared.
The most stringent apartment
zone permits not less than l,400
square feet for a one-room apart
ment ranging up to not less than
1900 square meet for four or more
rooms.
All parking at Seminary Heights"
will be "off the street" with one
parking space provided for each
family unit behind the street curb
lines. Mr.. Locks said.
The project is being erected by
| Thompson-Starret Co. and the
architectural plans were designed
by Kenneth Franzheim of New
York.
A large shopping center, designed
by the same architect and following
the same style of architecture, is
to be built by private developers
nearby, but not on the housing site,
Mr.. Locke said,