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Burial ground established in 1864 for African Americans who fled slavery to Union-occupied Alexandria; rediscovered in 1987. NRHP-listed 2012.

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.

Neoclassical 333-foot tower completed 1932 by the Masonic fraternity to honor George Washington; one of the largest private memorials in the U.S. NRHP-listed 2015.

Apothecary operated 1792-1933 by the Stabler and Leadbeater families; designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. NRHP-listed 1982.

1905 railway terminal at the foot of King Street, currently serving Amtrak, VRE, and Washington Metro Blue/Yellow lines. NRHP-listed 2013.

Sandstone boundary marker placed 1791 to mark the southwest corner of the original District of Columbia diamond. NRHP-listed 1991.

Federal-style 1807 banking house, the first chartered bank in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 1973.

Antebellum jail compound operated by slave trader Joseph Bruin from the 1840s through emancipation. NRHP-listed 2000.

Late-19th-century commercial building at the corner of Prince and Lee streets, an early local example of small-town bank architecture. NRHP-listed 1980.

Three brick rowhouses built ca. 1849 by Moses Hepburn, a free Black property owner and one of antebellum Alexandria's wealthiest African Americans. NRHP-listed 2004.

Brick townhouse built ca. 1763 in the colonial heart of Alexandria. NRHP-listed 1991.

Late-Georgian 1797 townhouse at the corner of North Washington and Queen built by merchant John Wise. Charles Lee, U.S. Attorney General and brother of Light-Horse Harry, lived …

Federal-Greek Revival 1817 sanctuary, the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Alexandria after Christ Church. NRHP-listed 1985.

Garden cemetery established 1856 on the western edge of Alexandria; among its interments are several mayors and Confederate veterans. NRHP-listed 2025.

Third of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, placed 1791-1792. NRHP-listed 1991.

Alexandria's seat of municipal government, the present 1873 building stands on the footprint of the 1817 City Hall and Market House. NRHP-listed 1984.

One of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States, founded in 1803; present sanctuary erected 1855. NRHP-listed 2004.

Founded in 1863 by formerly enslaved Black congregants; one of the earliest independent Black Baptist churches in the South. NRHP-listed 2004.

Mid-19th-century residence of George Lewis Seaton, a free Black master carpenter who served in the Virginia House of Delegates during Reconstruction. NRHP-listed 2004.

Late-19th-century Black fraternal lodge, part of Alexandria's African-American civic infrastructure during Jim Crow. NRHP-listed 2004.

Early-19th-century brick building used as the Bank of Potomac's executive office and as a Virginia governor's residence. NRHP-listed 2025.

African-American cemetery established 1885 on land adjacent to Fort Ward, used by descendants of the freedmen's community known as The Fort. NRHP-listed 2018.

Mid-century modern residence designed by architect Charles M. Goodman, who pioneered modernist housing in the Washington region. NRHP-listed 2013.

Suburban Alexandria home of Gerald R. Ford and family during his vice-presidency and at the time of his ascension to the presidency in 1974. NRHP-listed 1985.

Mid-19th-century chapel, part of Alexandria's antebellum African Methodist Episcopal congregation. NRHP-listed 2004.

Second of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, placed 1791-1792. NRHP-listed 1991.

Federal-style 1820s townhouse later occupied by mayor and judge Henry Daingerfield's family. NRHP-listed 2019.

Italianate residence built 1854 by merchant John Bayne; later occupied by the Fowle family of shipbuilders. NRHP-listed 1986.

Townhouse associated with Dr. Albert Johnson, a 19th-century African-American physician in Alexandria. NRHP-listed 2004.

Old and Historic Alexandria District, the colonial-through-antebellum core of the city, listed on the National Register in 1966.

Scenic parkway completed 1932 from Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon, the first federally constructed parkway commemorating Washington's bicentennial. NRHP-listed 1981.

1851 stone arch railroad bridge, in continuous use since the eve of the Civil War. NRHP-listed 2003.

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.

Fourth of the original DC southwestern boundary stones; the marker straddles the Alexandria-Arlington line. NRHP-listed 1991.

Historically African-American residential and commercial district north and west of Old Town, anchored by the Parker-Gray School. NRHP-listed 2010.

World War II-era garden-apartment complex completed 1942-1944, an early example of large-scale federally-financed defense housing. NRHP-listed 1999.

Streetcar-suburb residential neighborhood developed 1908 onward on the western edge of Alexandria, characterized by Colonial Revival and Craftsman houses. NRHP-listed 1992.

Confederate monument cast 1889 by Caspar Buberl, relocated from the intersection of Washington and Prince streets on June 2, 2020. NRHP-listed 2017.

Fifth of the original DC southwestern boundary stones, near the Arlington line. NRHP-listed 1991.

Early-20th-century streetcar-suburb neighborhood incorporated as the independent Town of Potomac, annexed by Alexandria in 1930. NRHP-listed 1992.