Al's Motors

Al's Motors

Gold's Gym, June 2009
Location 3910 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia
Coordinates 38°52′45″N 77°6′27″W / 38.87917°N 77.10750°W / 38.87917; -77.10750Coordinates: 38°52′45″N 77°6′27″W / 38.87917°N 77.10750°W / 38.87917; -77.10750
Area less than one acre
Built 1948 (1948)
Architect Mims, J. Raymond
Architectural style Moderne
NRHP Reference # 03000628[1]
VLR # 000-7381
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 5, 2003
Designated VLR December 4, 2002[2]

Al's Motors is a historic automobile dealership building located in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. It was built in 1948, and is a two-story masonry building in a high-style Streamline Moderne style. There is a one-story service garage with a barrel-vaulted roof. The building features rounded corners, a metal-and-glass curtain wall opening onto the automobile showroom, overhanging aluminum cornice, and red string courses mimicking racing stripes along the parapet. The property was renovated in 2001-2002 for use as a health club.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  3. Laura V. Trieschmann; Kristyna Olsen Mizelle; Robin Weidlich (March 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Al's Motors" (PDF). and Accompanying photo


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