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McLean If you have questions about the following data or want more information, contact us at 202-965-3715. If you would like to be included in periodic e-mail updates on this or other neighborhoods, send your name and e-mail address to info@hananhomes.com. As of September 30, 2008, 303 single-family homes were for sale in McLean. The listing price ranged from $503,000 to $15 million. Seventeen of those houses were over $5 million. In Langley Farms there were five houses for sale and in Langley Forest there were seven homes on the market. There were 52 homes under contract as of the end of September 2008 ranging in list price from $475,000 to $4.95 million. There were no contracts on Langley Farms houses but three on Langley Forest homes ranging from $1.4 million to $3.5 million. In the third quarter of 2008, 136 homes sold from $410,000 to just under $3,788,000. There were no sales in Langley Farms and only one in Langley Forest, the above highest price. In the first half of 2008, 203 single-family homes sold in McLean. In 2007, there were 521 sales, while 494 homes sold in 2006. The average sale price in the first half of 2008 was $1,238,012. This compares to $1,219,801 and $1,310,742 in 2007 and 2006, respectively. The average list price was $1,301,338 in the first half of 2008, $1,273,944 in 2007, and $1,335,096 in 2006. Listed below are the sales by price range.
Large and small farms have been taken over for development largely since the 1960s. Evermay was one of the first large developments with sizeable homes. Evermay’s homes are largely elegant brick Colonials with spacious lawns. Langley Oaks houses are 1980 Colonials. Chesterbrook has lovely brick ramblers. Evans Farm has single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums in Federal, Colonial, and Craftsmen styles. The homes are a combination of brick, stone and wood. The prices range from $1.3 million to over $2 million. There are many luxury home subdivisions in McLean, often building only custom homes, including Langley Forest, Langley Farms, Ballantrae Farms, Swinks Mill, The Reserve, and Foster Reserves. Several large townhouse communities have developed in recent years near Tysons Corner and downtown McLean. McLean, which is not incorporated, covers about 18.5 squares miles and has a population of about 40,000. The Claude Moore Colonial Farm in McLean provides visitors with an experience of what rural life was like in the 18th Century. The Central Intelligence Agency is headquartered in McLean. Other nearby attractions are the 19th Century Colvin Run Mill, Riverbend Nature Center, Great Falls Park, and the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. As part of the Northern Virginia Technology Corridor, McLean is home to the workforce of several high-tech telecommunications and software companies along with Gannett Company Inc., Capitol One Financial, and Freddie Mac. Beautiful neighborhoods are nestled throughout McLean to satisfy the housing needs of technology experts and commuters to Washington. One of the elegant communities is Evermay, built in the 1970s. McLean Hamlet with its Shakespeare named streets, has its own swim and tennis club and parks. Langley Oaks, next to Langley High School, has wandering streets and cul-de-sacs. Evans Farm, site of a well-known restaurant and family farm, is now a gated community of small lots and wide sidewalks. In 2005, it was named by Washingtonian magazine as a haven for empty nesters. Along Kirby Road, as recent as 10 years ago, small farms and houses on several acres, dotted the winding road. Most have been replaced with larger homes on smaller lots or developments. Many custom designed homes are located off Old Dominion Drive near the beltway. With the exception of McLean Hamlet, most streets in the 22102 zipcode, such as McLean Country Estates, Swinks Millwood, and Old Georgetown Estates, end in cul-de-sacs. Several large estates, a few with an acre or two, are located in McLean. Community activities are prevalent in McLean, starting with the McLean Community Center with its Camp McLean for kids and the Old Firehouse Teen Center. The Spring Hill RECenter has an indoor pool, dance studios, football, soccer, softball, and little league fields along with racquetball/walleyball courts, and a fitness room. In addition to the fields and courts at local schools, McLean’s parks have two baseball and four Little League parks, seven soccer/football fields, one with lights, nine basketball courts, and 20 tennis and tennis practice courts, nine with lights. Small parks in McLean include the Marie Butler Leven Preserve, Scotts Run Nature Preserve, Lewisville Park, McLean Central Park, Pimmitt Run Stream Valley Park, and Linway Park. Larger parks include Turkey Run Recreation Area, Langley Oak Park, Langley Fork Park, and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Fort Marcy Park surrounds the location of one of the civil war forts designed to protect the District during the Civil War. The public elementary schools in McLean are Spring Hill, Franklin Sherman, and Kent Gardens. The middle school is Cooper. Students in McLean also attend elementary schools in neighboring districts, including Longfellow Middle School. McLean's two public high schools are McLean High School and Langley High School. Private schools include Langley School (often referred to as Little Langley), which provides for pre-kindergarten to 8th grade. Potomac School goes from kindergarten to 12th grade. St. Johns Parish and St. Luke's schools run from kindergarten through 8th grade. Madeira School for girls is a high school for 9th through 12th graders. Oakcrest School for girls teaches 6th through 12th grade. Ridgemont Montessori teaches age three through 6th grade. The Dolley Madison branch library is in McLean. Lewinsville Senior Center serves McLean's seniors. Tysons Corner Center and the more upscale Tysons Galleria, across Dolley Madison Boulevard, provide the largest shopping area in the metropolitan area. Tysons Corner itself is the eighth largest mall in the country. There are also several upscale stores in the downtown area of McLean. The McLean Farmers Market is on Fridays at Lewinsville Park from May through November. Riverbend Golf and Country Club is in nearby Great Falls. Remains of Native American culture have been found as far back as 12,000 years. The Moyumpse tribe (called Dogue by the settlers) was living in the area now known as McLean when John Smith explored the Potomac in 1608. The Dogues grew corn, beans, squash and tobacco to supplement their hunting, fishing, and gathering of berries, roots and shellfish. They lived in longhouses made of bent poles covered with bark and reed mats. By mid century, most of the Dogues had moved west. The exiled King Charles II of England granted to seven of his loyal supporters all the land between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in Virginia. It came under the control of the Fairfax family by 1690, totaling some 5.3 million acres. The first courthouse in the area was built in 1750 near today’s Tysons Corner. Life in McLean before and during the Revolution was focused on raising tobacco through slave labor. Plantations were built, as were mills, homesteads, and taverns to serve the local crossroads, Georgetown Pike (Old Georgetown Road) and Leesburg Turnpike (built in sections and completed in 1838). By the 1800s, however, the soil was exhausted, and many of the tobacco planters left. So-called “Yankees of Fairfax,” Northern farmers who moved into the area, bought the land and began planting rotating crops. During the War of 1812, Dolley Madison took the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington to McLean to save it from being destroyed by the British, causing the locals to later name a road after her. The Civil War weakened the economy once again. Union forts, including Fort Marcy, were constructed to protect Washington. Confederate soldiers, including the famous Major John Singleton Mosby and his rangers, were stationed in nearby Dranesville, while Union soldiers were to the East. Both troops traveled throughout the area, often foraging and destroying private property and having skirmishes. The bloodiest battle was in Vienna. After the war, many freed slaves and Union soldiers settled in the area. The major commerce was dairying along with poultry farming, flour milling, and fruit and vegetable growing for the burgeoning Capitol. Farms received electrification courtesy of the New Deal during the Depression. With World War II and the boom in Washington, McLean began to change from a rural community to a commuter suburb. McLean was named after John Roll McLean, the former publisher of the Washington Post, when Langley and Lewisville were merged in 1910.
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