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Old Town Alexandria Vowell-Smith House in 2020 Signs hang from the lamp posts of Old Town along King Street. Located just minutes from Washington, D.C., [22] Old Town is situated in the eastern and southeastern area of the city along the Potomac River.
In the 1890s, Frederick Schwab (a veteran who had served in the Alexandria Artillery also known as Kemper's Battery) was proprietor of a saloon located in the original 1785 tavern portion of Gadsby's Tavern at 132 N. Royal Street (See 132 street number with “Sal.” for Saloon at the site of the 1785 tavern in the 1891, 1896, and 1902 Sanborn Maps of Alexandria, VA.).
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.
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021. Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Washington Metro Blue Line /Yellow Line tracks, or the George Washington Memorial Parkway, depending on the ...
Hornblower & Marshall was a Washington, D.C.–based architectural firm that was a partnership between Joseph Coerten Hornblower (1848–1908) and James Rush Marshall (1851–1927). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The firm designed numerous substantial government and other buildings, a number of which have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
Allen Dester Carter (June 29, 1947 [1] [2] – December 18, 2008), [3] known as 'Big Al' Carter, was an Alexandria, Virginia artist and public school art teacher [1] [4] in Washington, D.C. [5] When profiled by The Washington Post Magazine in May 2006, [ 1 ] Carter estimated that he had 20,000 works of art—"from intricate etchings to enormous ...
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.
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.