McHenry Seaport Center
Old Town’s Waterfront
In Old Town, Alexandria, VA, sits the Torpedo Factory, an old munitions factory, turned gallery and artists’s studios. For its 40th birthday 3 years ago, a glass artist installed 5 towers centered around a 3rd floor smokestack, a remnant of the building’s original designation. The spiraling movement of the balls in each tower is reminiscent of the double helix of a strand of DNA. They also look like they’re swimming, providing a very calming and peaceful movement, so you know I loved it.
Artists’s displays encircling the smoke stack
Old Town’s City Hall Spire
Love these little Alexandria town houses
A collection of sights on my solo bike trip to Old Town Alexandria—a block of a preserved cobblestone street
Gadsby’s Tavern, a 1792 Federal-style City Hotel, was situated on the main stage coach route between Boston and Williasmburg, enabling it to become an important political and social center. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee were notable patrons.
Then there’s an 18th century modest townhouse built in 1769 by Washington in case business or inclement weather prevented his return to Mount Vernon.
I visited Christ Church, a small rectangular Georgian structure. The moulding was made by hand and is original. The tower with belfry is 3 stories high. I sat in George Washington’s pew cubicle. Robert E. Lee was also a member of the congregation.
Original dentil molding in the church
Old burial sites on the church grounds
Love the bricks placed in a herringbone design as a walkway to townhouses. Pretty little village.
Bill and Laura
Washington, DC
