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Potts-Fitzhugh House, 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, Independent City, VA
Location607 Oronoco Street,
Alexandria, VA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS VA-707
Building/structure dates:
1794 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1850 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1930 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1967 subsequent work
National Register Number: 66000928
Significance: This structure was built contemporaneously with its twin next door at 609 Oronoco, later known as Hallowell School. Together these chaste Georgian buildings confer distinction to the block, a quality richly enhanced by old trees and flanking gardens. These two buildings are intimately associated with the youth of Robert E. Lee and his tutelage by Benjamin Hallowell for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point which he entered in 1825.
Subjects
CommerceGovernment OfficialsL-plan Buildings
Related Names
Potts, John
Fitzhugh, William
Lee, Henry Lighthouse Harry.
Sayers, Royd
Lee-Jackson Foundation
White, Thom, Delineator
Dionesotes, Debra, Delineator
Hamar, Ervin, Delineator
Marquis, Tracy, Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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