Lyon Village, Virginia

Lyon Village is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia. It is roughly bounded by Langston Boulevard, North Veitch Street, North Franklin Road, North Highland Street, North Fillmore Street, and North Kirkwood Road, and is positioned next to the urbanized Rosslyn-Ballston corridor.

Lyon Village was established in 1923 after real estate developer Frank Lyon purchased farmland from the Cruit family directly north of the growing Clarendon community, which had been platted in 1900. It was built as a middle and upper-middle class suburb of nearby Washington, D.C., and was located along Virginia's interurban trolley lines. Lyon's real estate company, Lyon & Fitch, split the development into 9 sections that incorporated preexisting homes from the Clarendon and Aurora Heights subdivisions. The neighborhood was mostly complete by the early 1950s, and contains many examples of Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Spanish Mission Revival, Tudor Revival, and Classical Revival architecture. Lyon Village was listed on the National Register for Historic Places in 2002 as a well preserved community built during Arlington's early 20th century suburbanization. Despite its proximity to the higher-density Clarendon, Court House, and Virginia Square neighborhoods, it has generally retained its low-density character and landscaping.