loading…loading…loading…These four Federal-era rowhouses built by a Black businessman in the 1850s stand as quiet testimony to African American prosperity in Old Town Alexandria, their modest brick facades concealing the ambition of a man whose son broke barriers in Pennsylvania politics.
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