The Headless Horseman Doesn’t Ride through this Sleepy Hollow Woods

It's Halloween and the children in Sleepy Hollow Woods are on the lookout for the Headless Horseman to ride through the neighborhood tonight.  Alright that may be a bit of a stretch but perhaps the quiet as you drive through a neighborhood just minutes away from major commuting routes to DC might seem a bit eerie.

First you need to know that there is more than one neighborhood with Sleepy Hollow in its name in Northern Virginia.   In fact there are a number of them in the same area with either a Falls Church or Annandale postal address.  Sleepy Hollow Woods was designed by Dewberry and Davis architects and the first of the 300+homes that make up the community were built in 1959 by Community Builders and I.L. Lewis Realtor Associates.

Just like their neighbor Lake Barcroft the area which became known as Sleepy Hollow Woods was in the "middle of nowhere" when the first homes were being built.  A 32 acre dairy farm was the biggest development in the area in the early 1950's and the development of the nearest big shopping center in Annandale was just being completed.  It was considered such a trend setting neighborhood for its time that it was featured in McCall Magazine in 1959. 

The original four models Raleigh, Wakefield, Yorktown and Winchester sold for $22,490-$24,900 with the option of a carport for the whopping cost of $700.  Sleepy Hollow Woods first HOA covenants were recorded with the Fairfax County land records in 1959 and are one of the reasons the neighborhood has kept its appeal for almost 60 years. 

Today neighbors walk the tree lined streets of the neighborhood they call "the woods" and still watch out for each other just as the original neighbors did in the early 1960's.  The community sponsors two annual block parties at nearby St Alban's Church in the Spring and you guessed it at Halloween. 

Located just off Columbia Pike and Sleepy Hollow Road commuters have a choice of commuting routes into Arlington and DC, including Route 50, Route 7 and Route 236 to I-395.  Give me a call for your tour of the not so spooky Sleepy Hollow Woods community.