Garden
Apartments
Buckingham
Buckingham
About This Site
- Buckingham
- Colonial Village
- Fairlington
Buckingham Garden Apartments
Bounded by
Developer: Allie Freed
- Buckingham was the second garden apartment built in Arlington, VA (after Colonial Village).
- Used economy of scale based on auto industry economic model.
- Design and features widely copied.
- Eleanor Roosevelt visited in 1937.
- Partially converted to cooperative units in 1981. Part remains affordable housing.
- Designated as a local historic district in 1993.
- Surveyed by Historic American Buildings Survey.
Links and Sources
- Baker, Gail. "Garden Apartments: Three Case Studies in Virginia." CRM, No. 5, 1999. http://www.fairlington.org/bakergail.pdf
This
article discusses the history of garden apartments in Arlington,
Virginia and efforts to preserve them. It covers Fairlington,
Buckingham, and Colonial Village.
- Arlington County Neighborhoods website for Buckingham.The The
This website has information
about the Buckingham neighborhood and the garden apartment complex
specifically. You can also download a pdf file of the
Conservation Plan for the neighborhood, which is quite comprehensive
and includes information about the land from European settlement to the
present.
HABS photo of Buckingham shortly after its construction.
Buckingham apartments today.
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