Jones Point Park
a.k.a. 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. NRHP-listed 1980.
- Extant
- National Register of Historic Places
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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.
Theodore Christopher · via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1315 Duke Street
Federal-style brick house at 1315 Duke Street built in the 1810s by Brigadier General Robert Young of the DC Militia; from 1828 to 1837 the …
The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia . · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 105 South Fairfax Street
Apothecary operated 1792-1933 by the Stabler and Leadbeater families; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. NRHP-listed 1982.
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 …
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Placeholder illustration of Interarms Warehouse Complex South Union. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 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 …
SDC at en.wikipedia · via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain 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 …
Windmill Hill Park at sunrise, July 2017 — the open grass meadow that once held Robert Townshend Hooe's c. 1791 grain windmill, with the Old Town row houses of South Union Street rising on the inland side and the playground visible at right. © KingSt.com, July 2017 501 South Union Street
Six-acre city park at 501 South Union Street, occupying the south Old Town waterfront hill that gave its name first to a c. 1791 wind-driven …
Wilkes Street Tunnel from the western approach, July 2017 — the brick-arched railroad tunnel cut beneath Wilkes Street in the early 1850s for the Orange & Alexandria Railroad to reach the Potomac wharves, today an Old Town pedestrian and bicycle passage. © KingSt.com, July 2017 Wilkes Street (between South Royal and South Lee)
Brick-arched railroad tunnel carved beneath Wilkes Street in the early 1850s for the Orange & Alexandria Railroad to reach the city's …
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