{"nrhp_refnum":"76002222","name":"Lloyd House","other_names":["John Wise House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"220 N. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria (Independent City)","county":"Alexandria","state":"VA","lat":38.807220319000066,"lon":-77.04680453199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story Federal brick mansion at 220 North Washington Street, at Queen Street, in the Olde Towne section of Alexandria, Virginia, built in 1796 by John Wise, an Alexandria businessman.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its handsome sandstone detailing and refined frontispiece doorway as architecturally notable and as an integral part of the Christ Church neighborhood. It is tied to several prominent Alexandria families and to Benjamin Hallowell's school, where Robert E. Lee studied mathematics. Its rescue from deterioration and threatened demolition and its later restoration are also noted.","narrative":"Built in 1796 by Alexandria businessman John Wise, this two-and-one-half-story brick house stands at the corner of Queen and Washington Streets near Christ Church. Its five-bay front is laid in Flemish bond and trimmed with sandstone, including jack-arched windows with fluted keystones. The doorway has paired Roman Doric columns, an open pediment and a semicircular fanlight. Inside is a double-pile, central-passage plan. The house passed through several prominent owners, among them Jacob Hoffman, later mayor, and John Lloyd, whose family held it for about a century. From 1826 to 1831 Benjamin Hallowell ran a school here, and Robert E. Lee was among his pupils. After years of deterioration and a threatened demolition, the house was bought in 1960 by a private owner, then purchased by the City of Alexandria in 1968. The city carried out a restoration under architect Walter Macomber and adapted it for new use.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"John Wise (builder); Walter Macomber, architect (restoration)","architectural_style":"Federal (also described as Georgian)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Alexandria, which restored it and adapted it for use by the Alexandria Library; the form notes a recent exterior restoration and interior renovation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.713114-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/6794/41679440/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/76002222.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002222/00752fd0d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002222/00752fd0d6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Lloyd_House,_220_North_Washington_Street_at_Queen,_Alexandria.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Lloyd_House,_220_North_Washington_Street_at_Queen,_Alexandria.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/41679440","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_House_(Alexandria,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6662481"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alexandria/lloyd-house-76002222/"}