Philip Richard Fendall
Philip Richard Fendall I
b. 1734 · d. 1805
Builder of the 614 Oronoco Street 614 Oronoco Street Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family members through the nineteenth century … (1785), secretary to George Washington’s Potomac Company, and first president of the Bank of Alexandria. Twice a widower, his three marriages produced the dense Lee-Fendall kinship network that occupied 614 Oronoco Street for nearly half a century.
Philip Richard Fendall I purchased the Oronoco Street lot from his cousin Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III b. 1756 · d. 1818 Continental Army cavalry officer, ninth governor of Virginia, and father of . Sold the Oronoco Street property in 1784 to his cousin that became the . on December 4, 1784 for £300 and built the Federal-style house there in 1785 for his second wife Elizabeth Steptoe Lee. [1] Wikipedia, Lee–Fendall House Website
Fendall served as secretary of George Washington’s Potomac Company and as the first president of the Bank of Alexandria, the chartered bank that preceded Burke & Herbert Bank Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … . He married three times. His third wife, Mary “Mollie” Lee — sister of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee — survived him by twenty-two years; she lived at the house until her own death in 1827, after which the property passed to Edmund Jennings Lee Edmund Jennings Lee b. 1772 · d. 1843 Mayor of Alexandria (1815-1818), lawyer, and youngest brother of and . Lived from 1801 in his house at 428 North Washington Street, then bought at auction in 1828. at auction.
Associated places
- 1784–1785
Philip Richard Fendall purchased the Oronoco Street lot from his cousin Henry Lee III on 4 December 1784 for £300 and built the Federal-style house there in 1785 for his second wife Elizabeth Steptoe Lee.
- 1785–1805
Fendall lived at 614 Oronoco Street from the house's 1785 completion until his death in 1805.
Sources
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Wikipedia, "Lee–Fendall House," accessed 2026.
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