1990–present
chapter 8 of 8
Modern Alexandria
Waterfront redevelopment, Metro expansion, present day
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Places featuring this era
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 …
9000 Richmond Highway 9000 Richmond Highway
Federal-style brick mansion built 1800–1805 by and on a 2,000-acre tract carved from the Mount Vernon estate as their wedding gift from .
1100 Wilkes Street 1100 Wilkes Street
Cluster of twelve adjacent burial grounds stretching across the 1100 block of Wilkes Street, including Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian, …
Farragutful · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 310 South Royal Street
Founded in 1795 as the first Catholic parish in Virginia. Present Greek Revival church on South Royal Street completed 1827; congregation …
1200 North Quaker Lane 1200 North Quaker Lane
The first high school in Virginia, founded 1839 by Bishop William Meade of the Episcopal Diocese on a 100-acre campus west of Old Town. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ben Schumin · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Strand Street
The Potomac waterfront from the Torpedo Factory south to Jones Point, subject to a decades-long redevelopment project that has converted …
Er1ckRailfan · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 1900 King Street
Washington Metro station opened December 1983 at the west end of King Street, catalyzing mixed-use redevelopment of the surrounding blocks …
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
Dave Grohl
b. 1969
Drummer of Nirvana (1990-1994) and frontman/founder of Foo Fighters (1994-present); raised in Springfield, Virginia and a transferred junior at Bishop Ireton High School in …
Hunt Burke
Great-great-grandson of ; fifth-generation Burke-family leader at .
Terry Adkins
b. 1953 · d. 2014
Sculptor, conceptual artist, and musician whose interdisciplinary practice — his "recitals" — built large-scale installations around the lives of Black historical figures. As a …