Al's Motors

3910 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia. County/parish: Arlington.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 05, 2003. NRIS 03000628.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • 000-7381

From Wikipedia:

Al's Motors

Al's Motors is a historic automobile dealership building located in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington County, 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.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679580

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