Charles M. Goodman

He later served as head architect at the United States Treasury Department and the Air Transport Command. After World War II he worked closely with Robert C. Davenport designing and site planning most of the Hollin Hills, where his firm, Charles M. Goodman Associates, designed over 14 models of house. During the 1950s and 1960s, Goodman designed prefabricated homes for the National Homes Corporation of Lafayette, Indiana. It is estimated more than 325,000 homes throughout the United States were built using his National Homes’ designs. Such as “The Ranger”, “The Main Line”, “The Custom Line”, and “The Cadet”.

• Name — Charles Morton Goodman • Honorific Suffix — FAIA • Born — 26 November 1906 • Birthplace — New York City, US • Died — 29 October 1992 • Place of death — Alexandria, Virginia, US • Resting Place — Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria • Occupation — Architect • Years Active — 1934–1986 • Education — Chicago School of Architecture of the Armour Institute (1934) • Spouse — Charlotte Kathleen Dodge (m. 1934, d. 1979) Dorothy Mae Sopchick (m. 1980, d. 2013) • Children — 1 • Awards — AIA National Award of Merit • Practice — Charles M. Goodman Associates • Significant Buildings — Charles M. Goodman House, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Hawthorne School • Significant Projects — Alcoa House, The Commons, Hickory Cluster, Hollin Hills, National Homes Corp., River Park, Rock Creek Palisades, United States Post Offices, the Unitarian Church of Arlington, Washington, D.C., Southwest Urban Renewal, Washington National Airport, Westgate and Westpark Research Parks

Goodman was born as Charles Morton Goldman in New York City. Historian Elizabeth Jo Lampl identifies his parents as "Polish immigrants Harris Goldman and Jennie Blomsten," and notes that "Goodman's transcript from the Armour Institute of Technology records that he entered that program as Charles M. Goldman, but changed his name in 1934 to Charles M. Goodman." He attended the University of Illinois from 1925 to 1928. At the Armour Institute, he was awarded the Dankmar Adler Prize as an outstanding freshman, and the Hutchinson medal as the leading senior in architecture, and a fellowship at Lake Forest foundation. (The Lake Forest Foundation award listed him as "Charles M. Goldman.") He graduated in 1934 from Amour Institute's School of Architecture. In June 1934, he married Charlotte Kathleen Dodge and they had one daughter together. She died in 1979 and he married Dorothy Mae Sopchick on October 30, 1980.

Beyond his most known works at Hollin Hills and National Airport, his other notable projects included the 1964 Unitarian Church in Arlington, Virginia, at 4444 Arlington Blvd. His residence, Goodman House, was built in 1954 at 510 Quaker Lane in Alexandria. In Reston, he designed a "cluster" of townhouses in the woods above Lake Anne known as Hickory Cluster. His 1949-51 development at Silver Spring, Maryland, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2004 as the Hammond Wood Historic District. His 1951 development at Takoma Park, Maryland, was listed on the NRHP in 2004 as the Takoma Avenue Historic District. His 1958–1961 development at Silver Spring, Maryland, was listed on NRHP, and is known as the Rock Creek Woods Historic District. He also designed 21 twin dwellings in the High Point section of the Virginia Heights Historic District. In 1957, Alcoa approached Goodman to design and build 50 Alcoa Care-free Homes; one in each state. Due to project difficulties, only 24 were built in 16 states including NRHP-designated properties of Alcoa Care-free Home (Brighton, New York) and one within Hollin Hills Historic District. In 1962, Reynolds Aluminum approached the noted architect to develop River Park townhomes along the Southwest Waterfront community of Washington, D.C., and just north of Fort McNair between N and O Streets and Delaware Avenue and 4th Street, SW. Goodman designed the glass and aluminum clad River Park Mutual Homes, which consists of two conjoined high-rise buildings and several clusters of flat and barrel-roof top townhouses. In the mid-1960s Goodman created one of his largest projects, the Houston House Apartments, a 31-story apartment complex in downtown Houston, Texas. Locations receiving National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designation and time of significance include: • Nationwide significance: • Hollin Hills Historic District (1949–1971), Alexandria, Virginia (2013) • Statewide significance: • Charles M. Goodman House (1954), Alexandria, Virginia (2013) • Tauxemont Historic District (1954), Alexandria, Virginia (2006) • Subdivisions and Architecture Planned and Designed by Charles M. Goodman Associates in Montgomery County, Maryland (Multiple Property Document) • Moyaone Reserve Historic District, Thomas-Straus (Contributing Building), Accokeek, Maryland (2020) • Local significance: • Virginia Heights Historic District (1946–1947, 1950), Arlington, Virginia (2008) • Hammond Wood Historic District (1949), Silver Spring, Maryland (2004) • Rock Creek Woods Historic District (1958–1961), Silver Spring, Maryland (2004) • Takoma Avenue Historic District (1951–52), Takoma Park, Maryland (2004) • Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington (1964), Arlington, Virginia (2014) • Alcoa Care-free Home (1958), Brighton, New York (2010) • Under review as future NRHP historic district • Hickory Cluster (90 townhouses) (1965), Reston, Virginia

Upon graduation, Goodman worked as an architect within the Public Buildings Administration (the precursor to today's Public Buildings Service of the U.S. General Services Administration, often with Louis A. Simon and Howard Lovewell Cheney, designing federal buildings, including: • F. Edward Hébert Federal Building: New Orleans, Louisiana • Federal Building at the 1939 New York World's Fair • U.S. Post Office: Chicago, Illinois: • Englewood Station • Logan Square • Roseland Station • Uptown Postal Station • U.S. Post Office: Covington, Kentucky: Post Office and Court House • U.S. Post Office: Detroit, Michigan: • Highland Park Branch • New Fairview Station • U.S. Post Office: Evanston, Illinois • U.S. Post Office: Flushing, New York: Forest Hills Station • U.S. Post Office: Granville, Ohio • U.S. Post Office: Kansas City, Kansas • U.S. Post Office: Saint Joseph, Michigan

• Illustration — Charles M. Goodman House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) • Illustration — Charles M. Goodman House • Illustration — National Airport, now known as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport • Illustration — Houses in the Takoma Avenue Historic District • Illustration — Barrel-roof townhouses in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C. • Illustration — Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington is listed on the NRHP

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The following is established of origins and background. Goodman died in 1992 at Alexandria. It is also recorded that charles M. Goodman was born in 1906 at New York City.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that charles M. Goodman is recorded with the occupation architect. The record continues: charles M. Goodman is recorded as a citizen of United States. Goodman is recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that charles M. Goodman was born on 1 January 1906. Institutional cataloguing adds that charles M. Goodman died on 1 January 1992.