South Richmond Highway

The Androus Building is an Alexandria commercial office property on the city’s South Richmond Highway corridor — the southern stretch of U.S. Route 1 (formerly Jefferson Davis Highway, renamed Richmond Highway in 2019). The orthodontic practice Hughes Orthodontics occupied the building from 1971 through approximately 1992 — a roughly twenty-year tenancy described in the practice’s own published history as having been ideally laid out for the practice’s mid-career expansion phase. ^[1] Source 1 Hughes Orthodontics — practice history Website

The building’s connection to the The Androus family Family The Androus family Greek-American Alexandria family with documented mid-twentieth- century-through-present roots in the city. Head-of-family figure in the surfaced public record is Theodore S. … is by trade-name only in surfaced public sources: it is referred to as “the Androus Building” by tenants and by neighboring businesses, but the family’s specific ownership history (acquisition year, transfer history, current title-holder) has not been documented in the records consulted for this entry. The family’s Mt. Vernon-area mailing address for the Androus Foundation sits several miles south along the same Route 1 corridor, suggesting that the family’s commercial real-estate work may extend along the full southern Alexandria stretch of the highway — though that’s a research-target hypothesis rather than a documented fact. Future deepening of this entry will require Alexandria building- permit records (for original construction year + architect), city directories (for the building’s tenancy history before Hughes Orthodontics’ 1971 arrival and after the practice’s 1992 departure), and the Hughes Orthodontics archive itself for any surviving records of their twenty-year tenancy. ^[2] Source 2 Alexandria Library Special Collections Manuscript