Constructed under the direction of Grace Arents to provide affordable housing, this is probably one of the earliest examples of subsidized housing in Virginia. The brick double houses with turned porch details, reminiscent of houses of the same period in the Fan District, replaced older wooden houses that were in poor shape. Many of the Grace Arents houses
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