Relax And Enjoy The View in Taylor Run

Taylor Run is a stream, parkway and neighborhood that joins Old Town, Rosemont and West End. Taylor Run real estate is characterized by its detached single family homes of varying architectural styles, featuring generous lots and tree-lined streets, and attached homes with charm and character. Three of the most expensive homes sold in Alexandria recently were located in Taylor Run.

A micro-neighborhood of Taylor Run is George Washington Park, a hilly treasure trove of wonderful homes of various architectural styles located behind Shuter’s Hill and the Masonic Temple.

Another micro-neighborhood within the Taylor Run triangle is Clover-College Park, a rectangular-shaped merger of two subdivisons running south of Janney’s Lane to Dartmouth Rd with a stem down Cambridge Road to Duke Street. College Park’s first stone houses on Yale Drive and Janney’s Lane were built during the 1930’s, while homes on the west side of Cambridge Rd were constructed in the 1940’s. In the early 1950’s, mid-century hones sprung up–notably 402 Cambridge Road, designed in 1941 by Milton Grigg, a noted restoration architect for Colonial Williamsburg and Monticello. The community was fully built out at 80 residences. Many of its streets are named for colleges and universities.

Clover was developed over two decades, beginning in the late 1940’s.  The first homes built were on the east side of Cambridge Road in 1948. Cloverway, developed from 1948 to 1950, Skyhill (1950-53), and Crown View Drive, starting in 1955, with number 403 reportedly the first house on the street. Crown View, Dartmouth, Clovercrest and Vassar were completed in the 1960’s. Many of the later homes were designed in the Colonial style, with a sprinkling of ramblers and split-levels.

Today’s Clover-College Park neighborhood retains its mid-century feel. Its modern-day claim to fame is that the Gerald R Ford family lived at 514 Crown View Drive before Ford became the 40th Vice President and 38th President of the United States.