{"nrhp_refnum":"92001275","name":"Rosemont Historic District","other_names":["DHR File No. 100-137","See Also:Southwest No. 2 Boundary Marke"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Commonwealth AVe., W. Walnut St., Russell Rd., Rucker Pl. and King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria (Independent City)","county":"Alexandria","state":"VA","lat":38.80915438200006,"lon":-77.06122665976528,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rosemont is an 84-acre early-twentieth-century residential subdivision northwest of Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia, built mostly between 1908 and 1940. It contains 456 contributing buildings, plus one contributing structure and one object.","why_significant":"The district is a planned, well-landscaped middle-class streetcar suburb that has kept its design cohesiveness, street patterns and landscaping. It shows a catalog of styles from Arts and Crafts and Craftsman bungalows to a predominant Colonial Revival, designed by both well-known architects and local builders. The Rucker-Johnston hollow-tile houses and garages are a notable example of the early automobile-age.","narrative":"Rosemont is an 84-acre residential neighborhood northwest of Alexandria's Old and Historic District, developed mostly between 1908 and 1940 as trolley lines pushed into the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Bounded by a railroad line, Commonwealth Avenue and King Street, it holds 456 contributing buildings, mainly single-family houses, small apartment buildings, an elementary school, a commercial building and many private garages. Colonial Revival houses predominate, alongside Arts and Crafts and Craftsman bungalows, foursquares and homesteads. Architects such as David Knickerbacker Boyd, Milton Dana Morrill, Waddy Butler Wood, William I. Deming and Speiden and Speiden designed some of the houses, though most were built by local builders working in popular styles. A group of thirty hollow-tile houses and their garages forms the Rucker-Johnston Subdivision. The neighborhood has kept its street patterns, landscaping and scale with few intrusions, and it has no churches and very few commercial buildings. Its cohesive design and intact suburban character are the basis for its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"David Knickerbacker Boyd; Milton Dana Morrill; Waddy Butler Wood; William I. Deming; Speiden and Speiden; J. A. Clark (architect) and Julian D. Knight (builder) for the Rucker-Johnston Subdivision","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Movements: Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Nearly all buildings are described as in good to excellent condition; the district remains largely residential, with many houses altered or enlarged over the years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.795767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/6794/41679436/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/92001275.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001275/68f62ab934-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001275/68f62ab934-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Farragutful","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosemont_Historic_District_(Alexandria,_Virginia)_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:Rosemont_Historic_District_(Alexandria,_Virginia)_01.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679436","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemont_Historic_District_(Alexandria,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7368481"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alexandria/rosemont-historic-district-92001275/"}