1707
Duke Street
Antebellum jail compound operated by slave trader Joseph Bruin from the 1840s through emancipation. NRHP-listed 2000.
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- National Register of Historic Places
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Mid-19th-century chapel, part of Alexandria's antebellum African Methodist Episcopal congregation. NRHP-listed 2004.
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 …
Farragutful · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 228 South Pitt Street
Federal-Greek Revival 1817 sanctuary, the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Alexandria after Christ Church. NRHP-listed 1985.
Beyond My Ken · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 206 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 …
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Bridge on Orange & Alexandria Railroad · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · http://www.loc.gov/item/2012649966/ Jamieson Avenue at Hooff's Run
1851 stone arch railroad bridge, in continuous use since the eve of the Civil War. NRHP-listed 2003.
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 …
Beyond My Ken · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 110 Callahan Drive
1905 railway terminal at the foot of King Street, currently serving Amtrak, VRE, and Washington Metro Blue/Yellow lines. NRHP-listed 2013.
Placeholder illustration of Alexandria National Cemetery. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 1450 Wilkes Street
One of the original fourteen national cemeteries established in 1862, interring Union dead from the Civil War, including United States …
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Duke Street
Named for Royal duke (likely the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II), c. 1749.
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1707 Duke St
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