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Lloyd House — also called the Wise–Hooe–Lloyd House for its three principal nineteenth-century owners — was built between 1796 and 1797 by John Wise, the merchant and tavernkeeper who already owned the neighboring City Hotel (later the Bank of Alexandria) and Wise’s Tavern, where George Washington was first toasted as President-elect in April 1789 ^[1] Source 1 City of Alexandria — Lloyd House History Website .

Wise lived at the corner of North Washington and Queen only briefly. By 1810 he had sold the house to Jacob Hoffman, who would later serve as mayor of Alexandria, and Hoffman in turn sold to James Hooe in 1824 for $13,000 ^[2] Source 2 Wikipedia, Lloyd House (Alexandria, Virginia) Website . (This early-republic Jacob Hoffman is unrelated by any documented line to the twentieth-century The Hoffman family Family The Hoffman family Three-generation Alexandria real-estate developer family. Patriarch (1920–2002) bought 70 acres of Eisenhower Valley swampland for $200,000 in 1958 and over the next decades built … that built the Hoffman Center on Eisenhower Avenue; the two share a surname only.) Among the early tenants was Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General) Person Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General) b. 1758 · d. 1815 United States Attorney General (1795-1801) under presidents Washington and Adams; brother of and . Practiced law in Alexandria; married Anne Lee, daughter of Declaration signer . , younger brother of Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III Person Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III b. 1756 · d. 1818 Continental Army cavalry officer, ninth governor of Virginia, and father of . Sold the Oronoco Street property in 1784 to his cousin that became the . and U.S. Attorney General under presidents Washington and Adams.

A schoolhouse in 1826 — and again in 1924

After Hooe’s death in 1826 his widow rented the house to Benjamin Hallowell, the Quaker schoolmaster, who used the building as his Alexandria boarding school for boys. Hallowell’s most famous pupil was Robert Edward Lee, who boarded with him for several months in 1825 to prepare for entrance to West Point. The Hooe widow died in 1831; the house then passed to John Lloyd, the family that gave the building its enduring name.

A century later — in 1924 — Lloyd House opened a second life as a school. St. Agnes School (a.k.a. St. Agnes Episcopal School for Girls), founded that year to serve Alexandria families who lacked a private-school option, took its first 45 pupils inside the Federal-period rooms with Miss Mary Josephine White as principal. St. Agnes outgrew Lloyd House by 1932 and relocated, but the founding chapter remained part of the institutional memory long after the school merged with St. Stephen’s in 1991 to form 1000 Saint Stephens Road Place 1000 Saint Stephens Road Upper School (grades 9–12) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, occupying the Saint Stephens Road campus opened in January 1957 by St. Stephen's School for Boys. In 1961 the school … .

The library era

The house was acquired by the City of Alexandria and restored in the 1970s by the Alexandria Library Association Nonprofit Alexandria Library Association founded 1937 The private nonprofit operating Alexandria's first free public library, which opened on Queen Street in 1937. The association's segregation policy excluding Black patrons was the … as a local-history research library — a third life as a place of study. NRHP listed in 1976. It remains a city-owned historic site.