The index

Places on file

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  1001 South Washington Street

  Burial ground established in 1864 for African Americans who fled slavery to Union-occupied Alexandria; rediscovered in 1987. NRHP-listed 2012.

  Civil War and Occupation Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

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  1005 Mount Vernon Avenue

  Colonial Revival 1934 high school in Del Ray, the first integrated high school in Alexandria after 1959; now George Washington Middle School. NRHP-listed 2021.

  Jim Crow Era

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  101 Callahan Drive

  Neoclassical 333-foot tower completed 1932 by the Masonic fraternity to honor George Washington; one of the largest private memorials in the U.S. NRHP-listed …

  Jim Crow Era

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  105 South Fairfax Street

  Apothecary operated 1792-1933 by the Stabler and Leadbeater families; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. NRHP-listed 1982.

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  110 Callahan Drive

  1905 railway terminal at the foot of King Street, currently serving Amtrak, VRE, and Washington Metro Blue/Yellow lines. NRHP-listed 2013.

  Jim Crow Era

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  1220 Wilkes Street

  Sandstone boundary marker placed 1791 to mark the southwest corner of the original District of Columbia diamond. NRHP-listed 1991.

  Early Republic

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  133 North Fairfax Street

  Federal-style 1807 banking house, the first chartered bank in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 1973.

  Early Republic

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  1707 Duke Street

  Antebellum jail compound operated by slave trader Joseph Bruin from the 1840s through emancipation. NRHP-listed 2000.

  Antebellum Era

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  201 Prince Street

  Late-19th-century commercial building at the corner of Prince and Lee streets, an early local example of small-town bank architecture. NRHP-listed 1980.

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

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  206 North Pitt Street

  Three brick rowhouses built ca. 1849 by Moses Hepburn, a free Black property owner and one of antebellum Alexandria's wealthiest African Americans. …

  Antebellum Era

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  207 Prince Street

  Brick townhouse built ca. 1763 in the colonial heart of Alexandria. NRHP-listed 1991.

  Colonial Era

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  228 South Pitt Street

  Federal-Greek Revival 1817 sanctuary, the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Alexandria after Christ Church. NRHP-listed 1985.

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  2823 King Street

  Garden cemetery established 1856 on the western edge of Alexandria; among its interments are several mayors and Confederate veterans. NRHP-listed 2025.

  Antebellum Era Civil War and Occupation

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  2952 King Street

  Third of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, placed 1791-1792. NRHP-listed 1991.

  Early Republic

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  301 King Street

  Alexandria's seat of municipal government, the present 1873 building stands on the footprint of the 1817 City Hall and Market House. NRHP-listed 1984.

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  313 South Alfred Street

  One of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States, founded in 1803; present sanctuary erected 1855. NRHP-listed 2004.

  Antebellum Era

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  320 South Washington Street

  Founded in 1863 by formerly enslaved Black congregants; one of the earliest independent Black Baptist churches in the South. NRHP-listed 2004.

  Civil War and Occupation Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

• undated

  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 School for …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria

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  404 South Royal Street

  Mid-19th-century residence of George Lewis Seaton, a free Black master carpenter who served in the Virginia House of Delegates during Reconstruction. …

  Antebellum Era Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

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  411 South Columbus Street

  Late-19th-century Black fraternal lodge, part of Alexandria's African-American civic infrastructure during Jim Crow. NRHP-listed 2004.

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

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  413 Prince Street

  Early-19th-century brick building used as the Bank of Potomac's executive office and as a Virginia governor's residence. NRHP-listed 2025.

  Early Republic

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  4195 West Braddock Road

  African-American cemetery established 1885 on land adjacent to Fort Ward, used by descendants of the freedmen's community known as The Fort. NRHP-listed …

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Jim Crow Era

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  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 Ascension Academy …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria

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  510 North Quaker Lane

  Mid-century modern residence designed by architect Charles M. Goodman, who pioneered modernist housing in the Washington region. NRHP-listed 2013.

  Mid-Century Transformation

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  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. NRHP-listed 1985.

  Mid-Century Transformation

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  606 South Washington Street

  Mid-19th-century chapel, part of Alexandria's antebellum African Methodist Episcopal congregation. NRHP-listed 2004.

  Antebellum Era

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  7 Russell Road

  Second of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, placed 1791-1792. NRHP-listed 1991.

  Early Republic

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  712 Prince Street

  Federal-style 1820s townhouse later occupied by mayor and judge Henry Daingerfield's family. NRHP-listed 2019.

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  811 Prince Street

  Italianate residence built 1854 by merchant John Bayne; later occupied by the Fowle family of shipbuilders. NRHP-listed 1986.

  Antebellum Era Civil War and Occupation

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  814 Duke Street

  Townhouse associated with Dr. Albert Johnson, a 19th-century African-American physician in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 2004.

  Antebellum Era Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

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  816 Vicar Lane

  Cul-de-sac suburban house off Quaker Lane that was the residence of Wernher von Braun from his 1970 NASA retirement until his death at Alexandria Hospital on …

  Mid-Century Transformation

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  Alexandria Historic District

  Old and Historic Alexandria District, the colonial-through-antebellum core of the city, listed on the National Register in 1966.

  Colonial Era Early Republic

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  George Washington Memorial Parkway

  Scenic parkway completed 1932 from Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon, the first federally constructed parkway commemorating Washington's bicentennial. …

  Jim Crow Era

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  Jamieson Avenue at Hooff's Run

  1851 stone arch railroad bridge, in continuous use since the eve of the Civil War. NRHP-listed 2003.

  Civil War and Occupation

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  Jones Point Park

  Frame lighthouse built 1855 at the south boundary stone of the original District of Columbia; one of the few surviving Potomac River inland lighthouses. …

  Antebellum Era Civil War and Occupation

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  King Street

  Fourth of the original DC southwestern boundary stones; the marker straddles the Alexandria-Arlington line. NRHP-listed 1991.

  Early Republic

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  Parker-Gray neighborhood

  Historically African-American residential and commercial district north and west of Old Town, anchored by the Parker-Gray School. NRHP-listed 2010.

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Jim Crow Era

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  Parkfairfax Historic District

  World War II-era garden-apartment complex completed 1942-1944, an early example of large-scale federally-financed defense housing. NRHP-listed 1999.

  Jim Crow Era Mid-Century Transformation

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  Rosemont Historic District

  Streetcar-suburb residential neighborhood developed 1908 onward on the western edge of Alexandria, characterized by Colonial Revival and Craftsman houses. …

  Jim Crow Era

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  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 grades 3–8. The …

  Mid-Century Transformation

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  South Washington Street and Prince Street

  Confederate monument cast 1889 by Caspar Buberl, relocated from the intersection of Washington and Prince streets on June 2, 2020. NRHP-listed 2017.

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow

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  Sw No 5 Boundary Marker

  Fifth of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, near the Arlington line. NRHP-listed 1991.

  Early Republic

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  Town Of Potomac

  Early-20th-century streetcar-suburb neighborhood incorporated as the independent Town of Potomac, annexed by Alexandria in 1930. NRHP-listed 1992.

  Jim Crow Era

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  1735

  3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

  Five-farm plantation on the Potomac owned by George Washington from 1761 until his death in 1799; home to Washington, his family, and more than three hundred …

  Colonial Era Early Republic

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  1749

  221 King Street

  Small frame house at King and Fairfax streets, traditionally held to be the oldest extant house in Alexandria; home of founding trustee William Ramsay.

  Colonial Era

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  1753

  121 North Fairfax Street

  Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal …

  Colonial Era

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  1773

  118 North Washington Street

  Alexandria's Georgian-style Episcopal parish church, consecrated in 1773; pew owners included George Washington and, decades later, the Lee family.

  Colonial Era Early Republic

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  1775

  321 South Fairfax Street

  Brick Presbyterian meeting house begun in 1775; site of the city's memorial services for George Washington on December 29, 1799, four days before his …

  Colonial Era Early Republic

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  1785

  134 North Royal Street

  An 18th-century tavern complex at 134 North Royal Street that hosted George Washington's final Birthnight Ball in 1799 and served as a social and political …

  Colonial Era Early Republic

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  1785

  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 …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

• 1786

  614 Wolfe Street

  Two-story brick schoolhouse built 1786 on Wolfe Street. George Washington was a founding trustee and bequeathed funds for free education of poor children. Later …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  1795

  607 Oronoco Street

  Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street rented by Anne Carter Lee from about 1812; principal childhood residence of her son Robert E. Lee before his 1825 …

  Antebellum Era

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  1797

  220 North Washington Street

  Late-Georgian 1797 townhouse at the corner of North Washington and Queen built by merchant John Wise. Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General and brother of …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

• 1805

  9000 Richmond Highway

  Federal-style brick mansion built 1800–1805 by Lawrence Lewis and Nelly Custis Lewis on a 2,000-acre tract carved from the Mount Vernon estate as their wedding …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

• 1809

  1100 Wilkes Street

  Cluster of twelve adjacent burial grounds stretching across the 1100 block of Wilkes Street, including Methodist Protestant, Presbyterian, Quaker, Black …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  1812

  1315 Duke Street

  Brick Federal-era house and compound at 1315 Duke Street, operated from 1828 to 1836 as the headquarters of Franklin & Armfield, the largest domestic …

  Antebellum Era

• 1820

  609 Oronoco Street

  Federal-style brick house at 609 Oronoco Street where Quaker educator Benjamin Hallowell ran a boys' classical school from 1824. Robert E. Lee received his …

  Antebellum Era

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  1827

  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 has worshipped …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  1827

  3737 Seminary Road

  Episcopal theological seminary founded in Alexandria in 1823 and relocated to its present hilltop campus in 1827. Occupied by Union forces during the Civil War …

  Civil War and Occupation

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  1830

  523 Queen Street

  Two-story brick "spite house" 7 feet 6 inches wide, infilling the alley between 521 and 525 Queen Street. Built in 1830 by John Hollensbury to block …

  Early Republic

• 1839

  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. First principal William …

  Early Republic Antebellum Era

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  1839

  201 South Washington Street

  Greek Revival building completed in 1839 as the Alexandria Lyceum, a subscription library and lecture hall. Served as a Union hospital during the Civil War and, …

  Antebellum Era

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  1843

  1 Wilkes Street

  The 1843 stone tide lock at the southern terminus of the Alexandria Canal, which connected the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Georgetown with the Alexandria …

  Antebellum Era

• 1856

  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 Fort …

  Antebellum Era Civil War and Occupation

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  1861

  4301 West Braddock Road

  Earthwork fort raised in 1861 as part of the ring of Union fortifications around Washington; the fifth-largest of the Civil War defenses of the capital. After …

  Civil War and Occupation

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  1862

  1450 Wilkes Street

  One of the original fourteen national cemeteries established in 1862, interring Union dead from the Civil War, including United States Colored Troops reinterred …

  Civil War and Occupation

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  1864

  219 South Payne Street

  Union Army hospital established in February 1864 for U.S. Colored Troops and Black civilian refugees in occupied Alexandria. Named for Toussaint Louverture, the …

  Civil War and Occupation

• 1885

  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 yard in 1885 and …

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Jim Crow Era

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  1890

  10 Prince Street

  Former office of International Armament Corporation (Interarms) at the foot of Prince Street; administrative headquarters of Samuel Cummings's arms-dealing …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria

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  1894

  300 North West Street

  Glass bottle and jar works that operated in west-end Alexandria from the 1890s until the Depression, employing hundreds of workers including children before …

  Reconstruction and Early Jim Crow Jim Crow Era

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  1900

  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 military small arms. …

  Mid-Century Transformation

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  1903

  100 South Fairfax Street

  The 1903 neoclassical home of Burke & Herbert Bank at the corner of King and South Fairfax streets, the bank's sixth and final headquarters after a …

  Jim Crow Era Mid-Century Transformation

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  1918

  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 records storage after the …

  Jim Crow Era Mid-Century Transformation

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  1937

  717 Queen Street

  Alexandria's first free public library, opened on Queen Street in 1937, and site of a sit-in on August 21, 1939 that is among the earliest documented …

  Jim Crow Era

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  1940

  9000 Richmond Highway

  Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house built in 1940 for journalist Loren Pope; relocated to the 9000 Richmond Highway parcel in 1964 to escape Interstate 66 …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria

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  1949

  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 plantation. Juxtaposes a …

  Mid-Century Transformation Colonial Era

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  1950

  900 Wythe Street

  Site of Alexandria's segregated public school for Black students, opened in 1920 at 900 Wythe Street and replaced in 1950 by a new Parker-Gray High School …

  Jim Crow Era

• 1957

  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. Stephen's …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria

• 1964

  201 Cambridge Road

  Catholic co-educational secondary school founded in 1964 by the Diocese of Arlington on Cambridge Road; alumni include Dave Grohl (transferred junior, early …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria

• 1965

  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 the late …

  Jim Crow Era Mid-Century Transformation

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  1975

  Strand Street

  The Potomac waterfront from the Torpedo Factory south to Jones Point, subject to a decades-long redevelopment project that has converted former industrial and …

  Modern Alexandria

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  1983

  1900 King Street

  Washington Metro station opened December 1983 at the west end of King Street, catalyzing mixed-use redevelopment of the surrounding blocks over the subsequent …

  Modern Alexandria

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  1997

  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 hall. A nationally …

  Mid-Century Transformation Modern Alexandria