Category: Historical Sites & Museums

Reading Time: 4 minutes Queen Street in Old Town Alexandria On August 21, 1939, the temperature drifted towards ninety degrees around noon. Five young men, all black, walked around the streets of Old Town Alexandria, making their way to the new library on Queen Street. Arriving, the group walked into the front door of the Alexandria Free Library (today […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Old Town Alexandria VA Situated on North Royal Street near the corner of Cameron Street stands the Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, two red brick buildings dating to the late 18th century that housed a tavern (1785) and the City Hotel (1792) that sheltered and fed pivotal people such as George Washington, John Adams, Marquis de Lafayette, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute 523 Queen Street in Old Town Alexandria, VA Among rows and rows and streets and streets of townhouses stands a little blue sliver that attracts photo ops and glances from tourists. Seven feet wide, the Hollensbury Spite House is not the only so-called spite house in Alexandria but is the narrowest house in the United […]