Hickory Cluster is a neighborhood of 90 townhomes located in Reston, Virginia.  Designed by renowned architect Charles M. Goodman, FAIA, and constructed in 1965, the cluster of two, three, and four-story Goodman Houses is divided into three blocks and numerous attached groups of homes arranged within 18 acres of natural, landscaped, and hardscaped common areas, with a two-branch stream flowing into nearby Lake Anne.

The cluster was one of three core, original, planned community Reston First Village neighborhoods built simultaneously by founder Robert E. Simon, Jr., (R-E-S-ton) along with Washington Plaza and Waterview Cluster townhomes, including the striking high-rise Heron House, surrounding Lake Anne Village Center shops, studios, and restaurants.

Single-family attached homes with surrounding consolidated common areas, rather than large individual private yards, was a radical concept in early 1960s Virginia and resulted in new Fairfax County planned community zoning options.  Goodman was instrumental in this, and is credited with bringing Modern Architecture to the Commonwealth of Virginia.  He drew on Bauhaus and other Modernist design concepts to create mid-century International Style homes with striking vertical and horizontal exterior elements framing walls of glass enclosing bright indoor-outdoor spaces, private walled rear patios and upper level balconies and decks, and with several of eleven models featuring windows on all four Goodman House elevations.