Glebe Center, also known as Glebe Shopping Center, is a historic

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located in the Ballston neighborhood of

Arlington County, Virginia Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the nati ...

. It was designed by

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architect

Mihran Mesrobian Mihran Mesrobian (; 10 May 1889 – 21 September 1975) was an Armenian-American architect whose career spanned over fifty years and in several countries. Having received an education in the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Academy of Fine Arts i ...

, and built in 1940. It is a one-story, L-shaped cinder-block building with a flat parapet roof and clad in a six-course, American-bond brick veneer with cast-stone decorative accents. It features large store-front windows,

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decorative elements, and a central square tower surmounted by a glass-block

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capped by a pyramidal-shaped metal roof. It was built to serve the residents of the Buckingham apartment complex and Ashton Heights, as well as the many motorists traveling along Arlington Boulevard and North Glebe Road. an
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in 2004.

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Glebe Center, 71-89 North Glebe Road, Arlington, Arlington County, VA
5 data pages at

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