The district encompasses 984 contributing buildings in the northwestern quadrant of the Old Town Alexandria street grid as it was laid out in 1797.

The buildings are representative of a number of popular 19th-century architectural styles including Greek Revival and Queen Anne.

Also included are more than 200 units of public housing, built between the early 1940s and 1959 as Colonial Revival-style row houses.

[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

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