1960–1990
chapter 7 of 8
Mid-Century Transformation
Civil rights, redevelopment, Cold War Alexandria
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Places featuring this era
816 Vicar Lane 816 Vicar Lane
Cul-de-sac suburban house off Quaker Lane that was the residence of from his 1970 NASA retirement until his death at Alexandria Hospital on …
Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 510 North Quaker Lane
Mid-century modern residence designed by architect Charles M. Goodman, who pioneered modernist housing in the Washington region. NRHP-listed …
Unknown · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5 World War II-era garden-apartment complex completed 1942-1944, an early example of large-scale federally-financed defense housing. …
Quarterczar ( talk ) · via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain 514 Crown View Drive
Suburban Alexandria home of Gerald R. Ford and family during his vice-presidency and at the time of his ascension to the presidency in 1974. …
400 Fontaine Street 400 Fontaine Street
Lower School (JK through grade 5) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, on Fontaine Street in Seminary Hill. Originally a campus of St. Agnes …
4401 West Braddock Road 4401 West Braddock Road
Middle School (grades 6–8) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes since the late 1990s, on the West Braddock Road campus that previously housed …
Russell Road Russell Road
The single-residence Russell Road property where the Reverend Edward Tate opened St. Stephen's School for Boys in 1944, with 97 students in …
Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road)
Layered Seminary Hill site that was the country estate "Muckross" of Burke & Herbert Bank co-founder Arthur Herbert, the Civil War earthwork …
1200 Duke Street 1200 Duke Street
Headquarters of T. J. Fannon & Sons at 1200 Duke Street, the Alexandria heating-fuel firm founded by Thomas J. Fannon as a wood-and-coal …
Placeholder illustration of Interarms Hq 10 Prince Street. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 10 Prince Street
Former office of International Armament Corporation (Interarms) at the foot of Prince Street; administrative headquarters of Samuel …
Placeholder illustration of Interarms Warehouse Complex South Union. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. South Union Street
Complex of converted warehouse buildings along South Union Street used by Interarms from the late 1950s to the late 1990s to store surplus …
The Burke & Herbert Bank building in Alexandria, Virginia, a city immediately south of Washington, D.C., and once a larger, more thriving river port than the nation's capital city · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · http://www.loc.gov/item/2020724810/ 100 South Fairfax Street
The 1903 neoclassical home of at the corner of King and South Fairfax streets, the bank's sixth and final headquarters after a half-century …
Beyond My Ken · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 105 North Union Street
Waterfront munitions plant built in 1918 as the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station; produced torpedoes through World War II, served as federal …
Unknown author Unknown author · via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain 9000 Richmond Highway
Usonian house built in 1940 for journalist Loren Pope; relocated to the parcel in 1964 to escape Interstate 66 construction at its …
User:AlbertHerring · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 1500 Belle View Boulevard
Mid-century shopping center on the former River Farm tract, one of the five constituent farms of George Washington's Mount Vernon …
1000 Saint Stephens Road 1000 Saint Stephens Road
Upper School (grades 9–12) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, occupying the Saint Stephens Road campus opened in January 1957 by St. …
201 Cambridge Road 201 Cambridge Road
Catholic co-educational secondary school founded in 1964 by the Diocese of Arlington on Cambridge Road; alumni include (transferred junior, …
530 South St. Asaph Street 530 South St. Asaph Street
Continuously operating school site on South St. Asaph Street whose institutional lineage runs from the city's segregated Black schools of …
Rudi Riet from Washington, DC, United States · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue
Listening-room music venue on Mount Vernon Avenue, founded in 1966 at an earlier location and relocated in 1997 to the present purpose-built …
People of the era
The Rev. Edward Tate
Episcopal priest who founded St. Stephen's School for Boys at a single residence on Russell Road in Alexandria in 1944. The school was admitted that same year to the Church Schools …
Frank Lloyd Wright
b. 1867 · d. 1959
American architect, founder of the Prairie and Usonian schools. Designed the Pope-Leighey House (1940), now relocated to the parcel in Alexandria.
Interarms
founded 1953· dissolved 1999
Alexandria-based arms dealership founded by Samuel Cummings in 1953, doing business as Interarms. For much of the Cold War the firm held one of the largest private inventories of …
Samuel Cummings
b. 1927 · d. 1998
American-born, Monaco-based arms dealer who founded International Armament Corporation (Interarms) in 1953 and built its principal operations in Alexandria. At its peak Interarms …
Wernher von Braun
b. 1912 · d. 1977
German-American rocket engineer; technical lead of Nazi Germany's V-2 program and later director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where he led development of the Saturn V …
