a.k.a. Town Of Potomac
Early-20th-century streetcar-suburb neighborhood incorporated as the independent Town of Potomac, annexed by Alexandria in 1930. NRHP-listed 1992.
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- National Register of Historic Places
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Joe Ravi ( Shutterstock iStock Dreamstime ) · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 101 Callahan Drive
A 333-foot granite tower atop Shuter's Hill, completed 1932 by Freemasons across the United States to honor as Charter Master of . …
6023 Fort Hunt Road 6023 Fort Hunt Road
1924 private country club at 6023 Fort Hunt Road on the Potomac River south of Old Town Alexandria. 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, and …

Episcopal High School's 100-acre campus from above, September 2019 — Hoxton House (white columns, right) anchors the south end; the Collegiate Gothic academic buildings ring the central quad. Aerial view of Episcopal High School, by Penguino2020 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (2019) 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. …
1200 Duke Street 1200 Duke Street
Headquarters of T. J. Fannon & Sons at 1200 Duke Street, the Alexandria heating-fuel firm founded by Thomas J. Fannon as a wood-and-coal …
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401 East Braddock Road 401 East Braddock Road
LEED Gold mixed-use commercial development at the corner of East Braddock Road, completed 2013–2015 by Jason Yates and his wife Loren on the …

George Washington Middle School on Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray, looking northeast along the front walk — the 1934 Stripped Classical school building at left, the modern clock-tower addition at right, and (at right of the walk) the granite WWII memorial obelisk erected by the graduating classes of 1943-1947 to the fifty GW alumni who did not come back from the war. © KingSt.com, 2024 1005 Mount Vernon Avenue
Brick Stripped Classical / Art Deco school on Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray, built 1934 and opened 1935 as George Washington High School — …
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 …
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Potomac Town Hall and Firehouse
213 E Windsor Ave
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