Clarendon

Clarendon is a neighborhood in northern Arlington County, Virginia. It is located along an urban corridor that follows the Orange and Silver Metro lines, and is generally bounded by 13th Street North, North Kirkwood Road, 9th Street North, and North Danville Street.

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Type: Suburb
Description: neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia USA
Also known as: “Clarendon, Arlington, Virginia”, “Clarendon, VA”, and “Clarendon, Virginia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include United States Post Office and Clarendon station.

United States Post Office

Post office

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US Post Office-Arlington is a historic post office building located in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. It was designed and built in 1937, and is one of a number of post offices designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department under Louis A.

Clarendon station

Metro station

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Clarendon station is a side platformed Washington Metro station in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The station was opened on December 1, 1979, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Virginia Square–GMU station

Metro station

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Virginia Square–GMU station is a Washington Metro station in the Virginia Square neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The side platformed station opened on December 1, 1979, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Virginia Square and Lyon Village.

Virginia Square

Neighborhood

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Virginia Square is a section in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. It is centered at the Virginia Square–GMU station on the Orange and Silver lines of the Washington Metro subway system between Clarendon and Ballston.

Lyon Village

Neighborhood

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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.