{"nrhp_refnum":"09001232","name":"Uptown-Parker-Gray Historic District","other_names":["VDHR File Number: 100-0133"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Cameron St. N. to 1st St. and N. Columbus St. W. to the following sts forming W. line, Buchanan, N. West","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria (Independent City)","county":"Alexandria","state":"VA","lat":38.81209309300007,"lon":-77.05034141868285,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-01-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential and commercial historic district covering most of the northwestern quadrant of Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, laid out in the 1797 street grid. Most of its 984 contributing resources date from after 1870.","why_significant":"The district is a historically African American neighborhood whose development followed the city's slow growth, with frame row houses, Colonial Revival row houses and public housing, and commercial buildings. The Queen Street corridor was once the city's primary African-American business district. The form also ties it to the segregated school built in 1920 and to the period ending in 1959.","narrative":"Covering most of the northwestern quadrant of Old Town Alexandria, this district follows a street grid laid out in 1797, though most of the land stayed vacant until the 1860s and nearly all surviving buildings date from after 1870. Small frame and brick row houses and town houses dominate, many with restrained Italianate, Queen Anne, Greek Revival and Colonial Revival details. Brick Colonial Revival rows built by developers fill whole blocks in the west, and more than 200 units of public housing from the 1940s to 1959 stand in the northeast. Warehouses line former railroad routes along North Henry and North Fayette Streets. Queen Street was once the city's main African-American business district, and a segregated school opened in the neighborhood in 1920, helping define it as the Parker-Gray community. Recent infill and restorations blend with older fabric, so the district keeps its architectural coherence. It contains 984 contributing resources.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, Colonial Revival, Art Deco/Modern","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are mainly domestic, with religious, commercial, funerary and recreational uses also present. Many historic houses have been restored in the last twenty years.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.691939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/6794/41679444/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09001232.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001232/d37d9fcd7f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001232/d37d9fcd7f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Farragutful","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uptown-Parker-Gray_townhouses_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Farragutful</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uptown-Parker-Gray_townhouses_01.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/41679444","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown%E2%80%93Parker%E2%80%93Gray_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alexandria/uptown-parker-gray-historic-district-09001232/"}