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The Rosemont Historic District is a historic district in Alexandria, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Rosemont is a lushly planted residential area occupying some 84 acres in northwest Alexandria, located adjacent to Alexandria Union Station (ALX). It was developed between 1908 and ...
It first owner was John Potts, Jr., who built the house in 1795. [3] [6] The house was built simultaneously with its neighboring structure at 609 Oronoco Street, which became the Hallowell School (Benjamin Hallowell tutored Robert E. Lee as he prepared to enter West Point.) [7] Potts was the Secretary of the Potomac Canal Company under George Washington, the company's president. [8]
The Hollensbury Spite House is located at 523 Queen Street in Old Town Alexandria and measures 7-feet 6-inches (2.3 m) wide and 25 feet (7.6 m) deep. [4] The lot measures 356 square feet (33 sq m), which includes the 350-square-foot (32.5 sq m) two-story house and a walled rear garden and patio area, measuring 7 feet (2.1 m) wide and 12 feet (3 ...
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.
The President Gerald R. Ford Jr. House is a historic house at 514 Crown View Drive in Alexandria, Virginia. Built in 1955, it was the home of Gerald Ford from then until his assumption of the United States presidency on August 9, 1974. The house is typical of middle-class housing in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington from that period. [4]
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.).
Ramsay Houses, located on North Patrick Street in Alexandria, housed African American war workers. [3] [5] Chinquapin Village consisted of 150 wooden duplexes that housed 300 families. [6] One, two, and three bedroom units were assigned by lottery based on family size. [7] The village homes were demolished in 1958. [3]
After Mason's death, the Alexandria Gazette ran an advertisement for the sale of Clermont on 28 May 1849. [5] The advertisement read as follows: [5] FOR SALE -- This estate is distant about four miles from Alexandria, and one mile south of the Little Turnpike Road, leading to the Town, comprising about 320 acres of land.