New Carnegie Hall

What a great name to honor Reston’s most celebrated landmark: Wiehle Avenue. Seriously, though, now that there’s a stop in Reston, let’s use it to commemorate how the town came to be. Reston was created relatively recently by Robert E. Simon (whose initials, cleverly, make up the town’s name). He built it after the Second World War, making it one of the first post-war modern planned communities in America, important in sparking the revival of planned communities. If you’re wondering where Simon got the money to build Reston, it came from the sale of one of his family’s old properties: Carnegie Hall.