30-625: Virginia Square is a section in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia . It is centered at the Virginia Square–GMU station on the Orange and Silver lines of the Washington Metro subway system between Clarendon and Ballston . The neighborhood consists of a mix of high-rise apartments , garden apartments, and single-family homes that date back to the 1930s. Virginia Square
60-543: A benefice could retain the glebe for his own use, usually for agricultural exploitation, or he could "farm" it (i.e., lease it, a term also used) to others and retain a rent as income. Glebe associated with the Church of England ceased to belong to individual incumbents as from 1 April 1978, by virtue of the Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (No. 4). It became vested on that date, "without any conveyance or other assurance", in
90-698: A competing interurban electric trolley line, the Washington and Old Dominion Railway constructed a branch that crossed the WA&;FC near the west end of Ballston, then called Lacey, near a WA&FC car barn and railyard. Interstate 66 and the Bluemont Junction Trail now follow the route of this railroad branch between Rosslyn and the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park in Bluemont Park. A historical marker entitled "Lacey Car Barn" located near
120-486: A new 360,000 square feet (33,000 m ) facility in Ballston. The neighborhood is home to Washington-Liberty High School . Ballston is also home to several university facilities, including: Glebe Glebe ( / ɡ l iː b / , also known as church furlong , rectory manor or parson's close ( s )) is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by
150-589: A section known as Virginia Square and sometimes the area is collectively known as Ballston-Virginia Square. Ballston proper is served by the Ballston–MU station , and the Virginia Square section of Ballston is served by the Virginia Square-GMU station , both of which are on the Orange and Silver Lines of the Washington Metro with a 1/2 mile walking distance from each other. By some measures, Ballston
180-636: A section known as Virginia Square , which takes its name from the Virginia Square Shopping Center that once stood there. Virginia Square is served by the Virginia Square–GMU station . Ballston and Virginia Square-GMU metro stations are within a 1/2 mile walking distance from each other. The area is sometimes collectively known as Ballston-Virginia Square. Ballston Quarter , a shopping, entertainment and residential complex, reopened in 2019 after being closed for two years of renovations. The MedStar Capitals Iceplex , constructed on top of
210-619: A veteran of the American Revolution ( Sixth Virginia Infantry ) is buried here. John Ball was the son of Moses Ball, who was one of the pioneer settlers in the Glencarlyn area of Arlington. Also buried here in the cemetery are many of John Ball's direct and collateral descendants including John Wesley Boldin, a Civil War soldier (Company D, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry ) and members of the Marcey, Stricker, Donaldson, and Croson families. In 1912,
240-815: Is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia . Ballston is located at the western end of the Rosslyn -Ballston corridor. It is a major transportation hub and has one of the nation's highest concentrations of scientific research institutes and research and development agencies, including DARPA , the Office of Naval Research , the Advanced Research Institute of Virginia Tech , the Air Force Research Laboratory , and engineering , management, and public sector consulting firms. Ballston also includes
270-732: Is home to the Arlington campus of George Mason University , including its Law School and the Schar School of Policy and Government , the Arlington Arts Center , some offices of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the main branch of the Arlington Public Library . The area's name is derived from the former Virginia Square Shopping Center , now occupied mainly by a major satellite office of
300-472: Is now Fairfax Drive; the Ballston Station was at Ballston Avenue, now North Stuart Street. Here Clements Avenue, now Stafford Street, divided to pass on either side of an old Ball family graveyard. The Ball family burial ground on Washington Boulevard has a historical marker, which states: Old Ball Family Burial Ground. This is one of Arlington's oldest family burial grounds. Ensign John Ball (1748–1814),
330-485: Is the densest neighborhood in the Washington metropolitan area . Ballston is named after the Ball family, and one of their family cemeteries lies in the neighborhood at N. Stafford Street and Fairfax Drive, also known as VA State Route 237 . Ballston began as Birch's Crossroads, and later became Ball's Crossroads at what is now the intersection of N. Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard . A historical marker that stands near
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#1732855353821360-530: The Diocesan Board of Finance of the diocese to which the benefice owning the glebe belonged, even if the glebe was in another diocese. But see 'Parsonages & Glebe Diocesan Manual 2012' for current legislation. Glebe land in Scotland was subject to the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Act 1925 ( 15 & 16 Geo. 5 . c. 33), section 30, which meant that it would be transferred little by little to
390-498: The Old French glèbe (originally from Latin : gleba or glaeba , "clod, land, soil"). Glebe land can include strips in the open-field system or portions grouped together into a compact plot of land. In early times, tithes provided the main means of support for the parish clergy, but glebe land was either granted by any lord of the manor of the church's parish (sometimes the manor would have boundaries coterminous with
420-687: The 1850s. In some cases associations with former glebe properties is retained in the local names, for example: Glebe Road in Arlington County, Virginia , the community of Glebe in Hampshire County, West Virginia , Glebe Mountain in Londonderry, Windham County, Vermont, Glebe Hill, near Tucker's Town , Bermuda, another Glebe Hill in Southampton Parish , Bermuda, and The Glebe Road in Pembroke Parish , Bermuda. Ottawa neighbourhood The Glebe
450-1096: The Ballston Business Improvement District (Ballston BID), (formerly the Ballston-Virginia Square Partnership which is inclusive of the Virginia Square district of Ballston), other area community development organizations, and the National Science Foundation organize the festival. Ticket sales at the event raise funds for area charities. The neighborhood has a concentrations of scientific research institutes , research and development agencies, think tanks , lobbying - advocacy groups , trade associations , government agencies , and aerospace manufacturing and defense industry companies, as well as engineering , management , and public sector consulting firms . Major employers in Ballston include: In 2011, Accenture agreed to move its offices from Reston, Virginia to
480-793: The Ballston Quarter parking garage, houses the offices, 20,000 square feet (1,900 m ) training facility, for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL)y. In addition to the ice hockey team's training center, the Iceplex features two indoor NHL-sized ice rinks, office space, locker rooms, a full-service pro-shop, a Capitals team store, a snack bar, and space for special events. The facility provides public skating, figure skating, and hockey programs for youths and adults. Virginia Square Shopping Center once operated in
510-475: The Ballston trolley station, states: By 1900, a well-defined village called Central Ballston had developed in the area bounded by the present-day Wilson Boulevard, Taylor Street, Washington Boulevard, and Pollard Street. More diffuse settlement extended westward to Lubber Run and southward along Glebe Road to Henderson Road. The track of the Washington, Arlington, and Falls Church Electric Railroad ran along what
540-509: The FDIC with a Giant supermarket on part of the property. Among local restaurants, Mario's Pizza has been a landmark since 1957 and El Pollo Rico since 1988. Ballston-Virginia Square Partnership was a business development organization inclusive of both Ballston proper and the Virginia Square section. This Arlington County, Virginia state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ballston, Virginia Ballston
570-547: The Falls. The second was eventually named Wilson Boulevard in honor of President Wilson. The intersection became known as Ball’s Crossroads when Ball’s Tavern was established here in the early 1800s. In 1896, an interurban electric trolley line, the Fairfax line of the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church Railway (WA&FC), began operating north of the crossroads along the present route of Fairfax Drive, whose name derives from that of
600-596: The General Trustees of the Church of Scotland . In Bermuda and the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain where the Church of England was the established church, glebe land was distributed by the colonial government and was often farmed or rented out by the church rector to cover living expenses. The Dutch Reformed Church also provided glebes for the benefit of the pastor; it continued this practice through at least
630-468: The church, or its profits may be reserved to the church. In the Roman Catholic , Anglican and Presbyterian traditions, a glebe is land belonging to a benefice and so by default to its incumbent . In other words, "glebe is land (in addition to or including the parsonage house/rectory and grounds) which was assigned to support the priest". The word glebe itself comes from Middle English , from
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#1732855353821660-434: The lay rectors just as it had to the rector . The amount of such land varied from parish to parish, occasionally forming a complete glebe farm . From 1571 onwards, the incumbent of the benefice would record information about the glebe at ecclesiastical visitations in a " glebe terrier " (Latin terra , land). Glebe land could also entail complete farms, individual fields, houses ( messuages ), mills or works. A holder of
690-516: The northwest corner of N. Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive states: In 1896, the Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Railway began running electric trolleys from Rosslyn to Falls Church on the present routes of Fairfax Drive and I-66. By 1907, the Fairfax trolley linked Fairfax, Vienna, and Ballston with downtown Washington, D.C. In 1910, at this location, the railway built a car barn, railyard, workshops, electrical substation, and general office. In 1912,
720-407: The now named Virginia Square section of the Ballston neighborhood. Ballston hosts the annual Taste of Arlington food festival , a street fair which has been produced each spring since 1987. The 2009 Taste of Arlington event featured over 40 area restaurants offering portions of their cuisine to ticket-holders, and drew approximately 15,000 people. The regional business development organization,
750-568: The parish but in most instances it would be smaller), or accumulated from other donations of particular pieces of land. Occasionally all or part of the glebe was appropriated , devoted or assigned to a priory or college . In the case where the whole glebe was given to impropriators they would become the lay rector (s) (plural where the land is now subdivided), in which case the general law of tithes would resume on that land, and in England and Wales chancel repair liability would now apply to
780-495: The rival Washington and Old Dominion Railroad began crossing the tracks on a bridge 200 yards west of here, following the present route of I-66 from Rosslyn. The Fairfax trolley closed in 1939, but Metrorail’s Orange Line follows its route through Arlington. In 1951, the Parkington Shopping Center opened at the intersection, formerly known as Balls Crossroads on the site of present-day Ballston Quarter . Parkington
810-489: The southeastern corner of the intersection reads: This intersection has been a focal point since about 1740, when two roads were developed, one from the future site of Alexandria to the mouth of Pimmit Run , the other from Awbury’s Ferry (at the site of Rosslyn) to The Falls Church . The first came to be known as the Glebe Road because it passed the glebe of Fairfax Parish and in order to distinguish it from other roads to
840-407: The trolleys' final destination, Fairfax City . Construction of the trolley line, which branched at Clarendon to serve both Rosslyn and downtown Washington, D.C. , temporarily shifted much of the area's development away from the crossroads. A historical marker near the northwestern corner of Fairfax Drive and N. Stafford Street, one block east of the Ballston–MU station , at the former site of
870-629: Was anchored by the headquarters location of the Hecht Company , and was reputed to have the largest parking garage in the nation when it opened. Ballston began to redevelop rapidly after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) opened the Orange Line 's Ballston Metrorail station on December 1, 1979, and when an entrance to Interstate 66 (I-66) opened on December 22, 1982. Ballston also contains
900-562: Was originally land dedicated to support St Andrew's Presbyterian Church . The Baptist, Presbyterian and other churches that were not established in Virginia succeeded in 1802 and passage in the legislature of the Glebe Act, whereby whether glebes were sold by the overseers of the poor for the benefit of the indigent in the parish. The Episcopal Church was weakened by the new law, but in the Carolinas
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