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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.
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- National Register of Historic Places
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Unknown · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5 World War II-era garden-apartment complex completed 1942-1944, an early example of large-scale federally-financed defense housing. …
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. …
Parker-Gray neighborhood Parker-Gray neighborhood
Historically African-American residential and commercial district north and west of Old Town, anchored by the Parker-Gray School. …
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.
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Streetcar-suburb residential neighborhood developed 1908 onward on the western edge of Alexandria, characterized by Colonial Revival and …
photographer not credited · via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain 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 …
Farragutful · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 Early-20th-century streetcar-suburb neighborhood incorporated as the independent Town of Potomac, annexed by Alexandria in 1930. NRHP-listed …
Placeholder illustration of Parker Gray School Site. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 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 …
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Mount Vernon Avenue
Named for George Washington's Mount Vernon estate to the south, c. 1894.
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