Virginia Square, Virginia

Virginia Square is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia. Between Clarendon and Ballston,_Virginia, it is centered around a stop on the Orange line of the Washington Metro, and consists of a mix of high-rise apartments, garden apartments and single-family homes generally dating to the 1940s. Virginia Square is home to the Arlington Campus of George Mason University, the Arlington Arts Center , and the FDIC, which occupies the former site of the Virginia Square Shopping Center, from which the area’s name is derived. Among local restaurants, Mario’s Pizza has been a landmark since 1957.