Hollin Hills

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Hollin Hills is a neat neighborhood of approximately 450 houses conceived and built by the visionary builder Robert C. Davenport and designed by D.C.-based architect Charles M. Goodman. It is located just south of Alexandria in Fairfax County, Virginia. The community was one of the first post-World-War-II developments around Washington, D.C., and it is known primarily for its modern architecture, which is very cohesive due to a design review committee that must approve any building or modification of existing houses.

The Civic Association of Hollin Hills is currently in the process of seeking a National Register of Historic Places designation for the neighborhood.

[edit] History

Designed by renowned architect Charles M. Goodman and developed by Robert Davenport in the late forties, Hollin Hills brought contemporary style to home construction in Northern Virginia. The community of houses with large expanses of glass, sleek lines, and unusual siting has earned national recognition from the early fifties to the present. Landscape designs for Hollin Hills homes were prepared by landscape architects Lou Bernard Voigt, Dan Kiley and Eric Paepcke to reflect the belief that interior spaces should flow into exteriors, and that grounds of one home should merge with the next, all in a park-like setting. These original concepts are still visible in the look of the neighborhood as a whole and in the individual homes.

Hollin Hills has won many awards, beginning with the Revere Quality House award from the Southwest Research Institute in 1950 and including two 1982 Test of Time awards from the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects, for houses on Stafford Road. Hollin Hills also is on the Fairfax County, Virginia, Inventory of Historic Sites.