Wakefield Shopping Center (Arlington, VA)

ID: 5401 ~ Source: Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress ~ Creator: John Schwartz ~ Date: 1990

This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Suburban Movement: Multiple factors resulted in the major shift toward suburban residential development.

Photograph: shopping centers like Wakefield Shopping Center were often built in suburban areas easily accessible by car.

This file appears in: Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Suburban Movement: Multiple factors resulted in the major shift toward suburban residential development.

Finding Style in DC: Navigating DC’s Shopping Scene - Suburban Movement: Multiple factors resulted in the major shift toward suburban residential development.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Because of DC’s unique status as the nation’s capital, residential development ebbed and flowed depending on a number of factors. One major factor included the need for federal jobs, which expanded…