Lake Anne Village Center Historic District
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Lake Anne Village Center Historic District | |
 Residences and the Baptist church | |
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| Location | North Shore Dr. and Washington Plaza W. and N., Reston, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°58′8″N 77°20′27″W / 38.96889°N 77.34083°W |
| Area | 41 acres (17 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 100001041[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 5, 2017 |
The Lake Anne Village Center Historic District encompasses the central plaza and surrounding buildings of Lake Anne Center in Reston, Virginia.
Lake Anne Center was the first village center created in the planned community of Reston, and features a mix of commercial and residential buildings around a plaza and inlet of Lake Anne, a man-made reservoir. The village center was designed by Reston's master planner and architect James Rossant of New York City for Robert E. Simon and built 1963–67. At the time it was considered a showcase of modern community planning; architecturally, it is composed mainly of modestly scaled Brutalist structures, including residential townhouses, mixed commercial-residential buildings, and a church.[2]
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.[1][3]
History
Originally the land was attempted to be developed into a town by Dr. C. A. Wiehle in the 1890s, but it never grew to more than a handful of buildings.[4] Before development into Lake Anne, the land was owned by the Bowman family for their 7,000 acre farm. The Bowmans tried developing the land into a farm, but eventually decided to sell it instead to Robert E. Simon.
