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Roughly bounded by Interstate 495, Patrick St., 2nd St., and the Potomac River 38°48′14″N 77°02′50″W / 38.803889°N 77.047222°W / 38.803889; -77.047222 ( Alexandria Historic
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 Alexandria City Hall also known as the Alexandria Market House & City Hall, in Alexandria, Virginia, is a building built in 1871 and designed by Adolph Cluss. In 1984, the building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [1] The site was originally a market from 1749 and a courthouse from 1752.
The Parker-Gray neighborhood is located in the northwestern quadrant of the Old Town Alexandria street grid as it was laid out in 1797. More recently known as "Uptown", it mostly consists of small row houses and town houses, but there are also many commercial buildings. It is the largest historically black neighborhood in the city. [64]
Wellan's Department Store started as a small store on Second Street in Alexandria and was founded by Louis Wellan. It had many items for sale such as dresses, menswear, and some toys and furniture. It coined itself as a new family-oriented store in central Louisiana, and conducted business in just that manner.
Bruin's Slave Jail is a two-story brick building in Alexandria, Virginia, from which slave trader Joseph Bruin imprisoned slaves.Bruin's company, called Bruin and Hill, transported enslaved Americans of African descent to slave markets in the Southern United States.
A Watermelon for God: A History of Trinity United Methodist Church: Alexandria, VA 1774-1974. Alexandria, VA. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Wallace, Alton S. (2003). I Once Was Young; History of the Alfred Street Baptist Church 1803-2003. Littleton: Tapestry Press. "The Other Alexandria: African American of Alexandria, VA". 8 ...
It hosted both the Alexandria Lyceum (which featured speakers including John Quincy Adams) and the Alexandria Library. During the American Civil War , it served as a hospital . After the war, the Lyceum was dissolved and John Bathurst Daingerfield bought the building for his daughter Mary Helen and her husband, Philip Hooe, who was a descendant ...