{"nrhp_refnum":"79003277","name":"Lee-Fendall House","other_names":["The Fendall House","See Also:Alexandria Historic District"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"614 Oronoco St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria (Independent City)","county":"Alexandria","state":"VA","lat":38.80930831500004,"lon":-77.04567580575389,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-bay, two-story town house at the southeast corner of Washington and Oronoco streets (614 Oronoco Street) in Alexandria, Virginia, built in 1785 for Philip Richard Fendall and remodeled in the Greek Revival style in 1850-52.","why_significant":"The house has strong ties to the Lee family and to labor leader John L. Lewis, who lived there from 1937 until his death in 1969. It is a representative late 18th-century side-hall town house, remodeled at the height of the Greek Revival period. It also keeps its original generous lot, whose undisturbed outbuilding sites offer archaeological potential.","narrative":"Built in 1785 at the corner of Washington and Oronoco streets in Alexandria, this two-story, three-bay town house was the home of Philip Richard Fendall, a friend and attorney of George Washington. Fendall married into the Lee family, and the house stayed in Lee hands for almost a century after his death in 1805. Louis A. Cazenove bought it in 1850 and remodeled it in the Greek Revival style, adding a shallow hip roof and a full third story lit by eyebrow windows. In 1937 labor leader John L. Lewis and his wife acquired the house and cared for it through the Depression, war and post-war development. The Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation bought it in 1972 and opened it as a museum in 1974. The property keeps its original lot, and the undisturbed sites of its 18th-century outbuildings offer potential for archaeological study of an urban domestic complex.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (1850-52 remodeling of a late 18th-century side-hall town house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation, which renovated it and opened it as a historic house museum on March 25, 1974. The form lists it as occupied and in use as a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.918666-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/6794/41679417/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/79003277.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003277/c4330e024d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003277/c4330e024d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Fendall_House_from_the_street.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia.</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:Lee_Fendall_House_from_the_street.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/41679417","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Fendall_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712693"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alexandria/lee-fendall-house-79003277/"}