Overlee Knolls Homes For Sale, Arlington VA
It is not uncommon for neighborhoods in Washington Metro to either overlap with one-another or have more than one name. Overlee Knolls in Arlington, Virginia is such a place. The community with its rich past and appealing homes for sale was originally known as Fosteria and is also sometimes referred to as Highland Park-Overlee Knolls.
Located in the western part of the county next-door to East Falls Church, Highland Park-Overlee Knolls is a nationally recognized historic district—expect to find a fascinating array of architectural styles here.
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The neighborhood lies south of Lee Highway and is bordered by 22nd Street N to the north, N. Lexington Street on the eastern side, I-66 along the south and N. Quantico Street to the west. Residents have lots of choices for their daily commute, including the nearby East Falls Church Metro.
Once farmland, the community ties its early development to the arrival of rail lines. The Fosteria train depot was built in the 1850s, serving the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad. Later in the century, streetcars arrived, with tracks parallel to the still-existent railroad.
The nascent community was slow to progress, however, and an investor bought out the Fosteria Land and Development Company, rechristening the neighborhood Highland Park. The plan was to offer large Victorian and Queen Anne homes for sale at affordable terms, catering to Washingtonians who might wish to avail themselves of a suburb with rail transit. In fact, this same notion was springing up all over Arlington and Alexandria at the time. Perhaps the fact that the new Highland Park community was a few stops further west than competing developments hindered its immediate growth.
By the time the 1920s rolled along, Highland Park featured two new subdivisions—Section 1 Over-Lee Knolls and Section 2 Over-Lee Knolls. But things still proceeded at a leisurely pace with only 63 homes built between the two subdivisions by 1938. After a pause for the World War II era, construction picked up with a rash of homes completed between 1946 and 1947 in three new subdivisions—Richmond Hill Section 3, Richmond Hill Section 4, and Highland Park Village.
As the opening paragraph indicated, this is definitely a community with a lot of different parts and names. As for homes styles, you’ll find the early Victorians, Craftsman cottages and bungalows, Colonial Revivals, Italianate/Mediterranean, Tudor Revival, Cape Cod and even a sprinkling of early brick Ramblers. More recently, there have been some teardowns in favor of new custom construction.
Highland Park-Overlee Knolls is a pleasant place with a popular local park (Pinehurst), quiet streets lined with mature trees, and lots that are often a bit hilly. Adding to the plethora of name changes, locals have recently begun calling their community Fosteria once again. It’s one of those full-circle things. Homes for sale have recently been listing from the high six figures to over $1 million.
