The houses were built near the trolley line, allowing residents to work in Washington and live in a suburban neighborhood.

One contributing structure and one contributing object were previously listed in the National Register as part of the Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia Multiple Property Submission: Southwest # 2 Boundary Marker.

The historic district is bounded on the southeast by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad line.

During the 1940s, the Rosemont neighborhood used restrictive covenants to exclude Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and any person of the "Hebrew or Jewish Race.

This article about a property in Alexandria, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.