[5] The home is in the Federal and Georgian styles; it is made of brick with white trim[5] and sits on a half-acre lot.

[4] The home was rented by Fitzhugh to his relative, Henry Lee III ("Light-Horse Harry"), in 1811, at a time when Alexandria was still part of the District of Columbia.

[5][4] Notable later residents includes Royd Sayer, the head of the Bureau of Mines under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ada Hitchcock MacLeish, who helped create the United Nations with her husband Archibald MacLeish, a poet and Librarian of Congress.

[6] The home was operated as a museum from 1967 to 2000,[3] when the Lee-Jackson Foundation, the nonprofit that operated the museum, sold the site to Mark Kington, a managing director at a venture capital firm, and his wife Ann.

[9] Media related to Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home (Potts-Fitzhugh House) at Wikimedia Commons