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The Alexandria Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in Alexandria, Virginia. Encompassing all of the city's Old Town and some adjacent areas, this area contains one of the nation's best-preserved assemblages of the late-18th and early-19th century urban architecture.
Landmark Mall (or Landmark Regional Shopping Center) (formerly Landmark Center) was an American shopping mall in Alexandria, Virginia. Located in a triangle formed by Duke Street ( Virginia State Route 236 ), Interstate 395 , and Van Dorn Street ( Virginia State Route 401 ), the mall opened in 1965 and closed on January 31, 2017.
The Alexandria West area is slated for a great deal of redevelopment under a recent plan approved by the city of Alexandria. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] The plan, called the Beauregard Corridor Plan, has met with opposition from a number of local residential groups; concerns include the addition of density to the neighborhood [ 130 ] and the loss of a ...
The area was originally called Belhaven, believed to be in honor of a Scottish patriot, John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton.The town was formally named Alexandria in 1779, after Captain Philip Alexander II (1704–1753) and Captain John Alexander (1711–1763), who donated the land to assist in the development of the area.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Uptown–Parker–Gray Historic District is a national historic district located at Alexandria, Virginia.The district encompasses 984 contributing buildings in the northwestern quadrant of the Old Town Alexandria street grid as it was laid out in 1797.
King Street is a major road in Alexandria, Virginia, United States and historic Old Town Alexandria.It extends westward from the Potomac River waterfront near the Torpedo Factory Art Center and nearby bustling tourist gift shops and restaurants, passing City Hall and the Alexandria General District Court.
Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Washington, D.C. Alexandria is the third-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.