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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.
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Episcopal High School's 100-acre campus from above, September 2019 — Hoxton House (white columns, right) anchors the south end; the Collegiate Gothic academic buildings ring the central quad. Aerial view of Episcopal High School, by Penguino2020 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (2019) 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. …
Market Square at sunrise, July 2017 — the city's eighteenth-century public square in its weekday-morning calm, framed by City Hall and the Fourth-of-July flags hung along the lamp posts. © KingSt.com, July 2017 301 King Street
Public square at 301 King Street fronting Alexandria City Hall — site of an open-air farmers market continuously operated since 1753, the …
Placeholder illustration of Lyceum. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 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 …
201 Prince Street 201 Prince Street
Greek Revival temple-front building completed 1851 at 201 Prince Street as the Bank of the Old Dominion. Used during the Civil War as a …
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Townhouse associated with Dr. Albert Johnson, a 19th-century African-American physician in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 2004.
411 South Columbus Street 411 South Columbus Street
Late-19th-century Black fraternal lodge, part of Alexandria's African-American civic infrastructure during Jim Crow. NRHP-listed 2004.
107 South Alfred Street 107 South Alfred Street
1855 Italianate firehouse at 107 South Alfred Street, home of the Friendship Fire Company — founded 1774, the oldest volunteer fire company …
Ser Amantio de Nicalao · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 811 Prince Street
Italianate residence built 1854 by merchant John Bayne; later occupied by the Fowle family of shipbuilders. NRHP-listed 1986.
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Alfred Street
Named for Alfred the Great, ninth-century King of Wessex, c. 1796.
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