Parker-Gray neighborhood
a.k.a. Parker-Gray neighborhood
Historically African-American residential and commercial district north and west of Old Town, anchored by the Parker-Gray School. NRHP-listed 2010.
- Extant
- National Register of Historic Places
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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 …
1001 South Washington Street 1001 South Washington Street
Burial ground established in 1864 for African Americans who fled slavery to Union-occupied Alexandria; rediscovered in 1987. NRHP-listed …
411 South Columbus Street 411 South Columbus Street
Late-19th-century Black fraternal lodge, part of Alexandria's African-American civic infrastructure during Jim Crow. NRHP-listed 2004.
The Burke & Herbert Bank building in Alexandria, Virginia, a city immediately south of Washington, D.C., and once a larger, more thriving river port than the nation's capital city · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · http://www.loc.gov/item/2020724810/ 100 South Fairfax Street
The 1903 neoclassical home of at the corner of King and South Fairfax streets, the bank's sixth and final headquarters after a half-century …
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Famartin · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 George Washington Memorial Parkway
Scenic parkway completed 1932 from Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon, the first federally constructed parkway commemorating Washington's …
Placeholder illustration of Alexandria Library 1939. Seed placeholder — KingSt.com, 2026. To be replaced with archival photograph. 717 Queen Street
Alexandria's first free public library, opened on Queen Street in 1937, and site of a sit-in on August 21, 1939 that is among the earliest …
609 Oronoco Street 609 Oronoco Street
Federal-style brick house at 609 Oronoco Street where Quaker educator ran a boys' classical school from 1824. received his pre–West Point …
The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia . · via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 614 Oronoco Street
Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family …
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