LEE-FENDALL HOUSE

The Lee-Fendall House is a family home in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Since its construction in 1785, this home has housed thirty-seven members of the Lee family (1785-1903), hundreds of convalescing Union soldiers during the Civil War (1863-1865), the prominent Downham family (1903-1937), and powerful labor leader John L. Lewis (1937-1969). Throughout its history, the home was also lived and worked in by generations of enslaved and free African Americans.

Primary location: Alexandria United States