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Facing west across Arlington County, Virginia towards Washington, D.C., as viewed from the Virginia Hospital Center.

The cluster of high-rises closest in the picture is Ballston. The Waycroft-Woodlawn neighborhood is in the foreground.

From the Arlington County website:
"Waycroft-Woodlawn consists of 585 single-family homes located just northwest of the commercial center of Ballston in a beautiful, heavily wooded area of northern Arlington County . It is generally bounded by Glebe Road , I-66, 17th Street , and George Mason Drive/Frederick Street . The homes are characterized by architectural styles common to the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. This gives the neighborhood an interesting variety of structural designs while maintaining a consistent feel of scale and quality. Woodlawn Park is located entirely within the bounds of the Waycroft-Woodlawn Neighborhood, and is no more than a five to ten minute walk from any home in the community. A stream, the uppermost reach of Lubber Run, runs through the park. Throughout the year, parents take their children there to play on the playground equipment; dog owners walk their pets; families have picnics; and walkers, joggers, skaters, and cyclists use the paths that crisscross the park.....In the early 1800's Waycroft-Woodlawn consisted of farms, scattered houses, and woods. In the 1850s, two Waycroft-Woodlawn residents, William Marcey and John Brown, had a dispute over a parcel of land at the intersection of Glebe and Brown's Bend Roads. To resolve the matter, they both gave up their claims and the land was donated for a church site. Subsequently, Mt. Olivet Methodist Church was built there in the years 1855-1860 however, the present church structure built in 1948 is the fourth building on the same site. The Civil War saw Union troops marching up and down Glebe Road to and from several of the twenty-two forts of the Arlington Line, part of the defenses built around Washington . Mt. Olivet Church served as a hospital for wounded Union soldiers, and later the Church was a military commissary and stable. Following the Civil War, a Union officer, Major R. S. Lacey of Ohio bought a farm in the southern part of the Waycroft-Woodlawn area and built a house, Broadview. This house stands today, still a private home, at 14th and Evergreen Streets. The Brumback firm built Woodlawn Village in the years 1934-1939. In the area named Waycroft, lots were sold and individual houses built rather than the entire development being built by one builder as was the case in Woodlawn Village . In the years following World War II, the remaining vacant lots in Waycroft-Woodlawn were then built up with individual dwellings."

A detailed history of the neighborhood is available via this link.

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Taken on: April 7, 2013

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Camera: Canon PowerShot S90, f/4.0, 1/320 sec, 6mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot S90
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	6mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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