{"nrhp_refnum":"03001426","name":"Hepburn, Moses, Rowhouses","other_names":["Dhr#100-5015-0004"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"206-212 N. Pitt St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria (Independent City)","county":"Alexandria","state":"VA","lat":38.80839485000007,"lon":-77.04435688699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-01-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of four two-story brick rowhouses at 206-212 North Pitt Street in Alexandria, Virginia, built by Moses Hepburn after he bought the lots in 1850. They sit at the edge of \"The Berg,\" a historically African American neighborhood.","why_significant":"The rowhouses are significant for their association with Moses Hepburn, a prominent African American businessman and civic leader. Born a slave in 1809 and freed in 1816, he became a successful entrepreneur and landowner in antebellum Alexandria. He lived on the site until moving to West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1853.","narrative":"Four connected brick rowhouses at 206-212 North Pitt Street in Alexandria were built by Moses Hepburn after he purchased the lots in 1850. Each is two bays wide and two stories tall, laid in American bond and covered by a shared side-gable standing-seam metal roof. The units form two mirror-image pairs with side-hall plans. Unit 206 was given Victorian details in the late nineteenth century, including window hoods and a bracketed door surround. The houses are listed because of Hepburn. Born into slavery in 1809 and freed in 1816, he received an education in Pennsylvania, then built a business in Alexandria selling water and developing residential and commercial property. He helped found Davis Chapel, served as first president of a missionary society, and taught at a Sabbath school. Hepburn lived on the site until he moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1853. The buildings remain in residential use.","period_of_significance":"1850-1853","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by Moses Hepburn)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Still in use as single-family dwellings; all four units are painted brick with rear additions, and unit 206 was updated in the late nineteenth century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.37802-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/6785/41678510/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03001426.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001426/5e8be328a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001426/5e8be328a2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moses_Hepburn_Rowhouses.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moses_Hepburn_Rowhouses.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000928","name":"Alexandria Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/alexandria-historic-district-66000928/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678510","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hepburn_Rowhouses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6915816"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alexandria/hepburn-moses-rowhouses-03001426/"}