Rosemont Historic District

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.