{"nrhp_refnum":"95000106","name":"Alexandria National Cemetery","other_names":["Soldiers' Cemetery","VDHR File No. 100-138"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"1450 Wilkes St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alexandria (Independent City)","county":"Alexandria","state":"VA","lat":38.80193613700004,"lon":-77.05810518099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Alexandria National Cemetery is a 5.5-acre Civil War-era federal burial ground at 1450 Wilkes Street in Alexandria, Virginia, established in 1862. It contains a superintendent's lodge, a utility building and 4,066 graves.","why_significant":"The nomination cites Criterion A for the cemetery's association with the Civil War, when Alexandria was a military center and hospital hub. It cites Criterion B for the lodge design by Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs, and Criterion C because the lodge represents a distinctive prototypical design.","narrative":"Alexandria National Cemetery occupies 5.5 acres at 1450 Wilkes Street in Alexandria, Virginia. Established in 1862 as the Soldiers' Cemetery, it holds 4,066 graves marked with small white marble stones, including four Quartermaster Corps employees who drowned in 1865 while pursuing John Wilkes Booth. Many of the dead died in the city's Civil War hospitals or were reinterred from nearby burial grounds. A red sandstone wall surrounds the grounds, and the main entrance has ornamental wrought and cast iron gates. The superintendent's lodge follows a prototype design by Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs. The original burned in 1878, and the present Second Empire lodge was built in 1887 over the old walls and foundation. A brick utility building was added the same year. The cemetery is recognized for its Civil War association, the Meigs lodge design and the lodge's distinctive prototypical form. It closed to general burials in 1967.","period_of_significance":"1862-1887","architect_builder":"Meigs, Montgomery C.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Empire; Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Officially closed to new burials in 1967, though a small number of interments still occur yearly; 22 reserved gravesites and 70 cremation sites were available as of July 1993.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.471446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/95000106.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000106/b948b8bf24-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000106/b948b8bf24-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"User:AlbertHerring","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandria_National_Cemetery_5,_Alexandria,_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:AlbertHerring</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:Alexandria_National_Cemetery_5,_Alexandria,_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77834741","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_National_Cemetery_(Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4720985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/alexandria/alexandria-national-cemetery-95000106/"}