Alexandria Union Station Alexandria, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places Data
Alexandria Union Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000044
- Date Listed
- February 27, 2013
- Name
- Alexandria Union Station
- Other Names
- VDHR No. 100-0124
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 110 Callahan Dr.
- City/Town
- Alexandria (Independent City)
- County
- Alexandria
- State
- Virginia
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- TRANSPORTATION; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Alexandria Union Station, built in 1905, located in the City of Alexandria, Virginia, provides an intact representation of regional railroad planning and mid-Atlantic terminal design in the early 20th century. Associated with important regional and local transportation trends, the station meets Criterion A requirements. The City Beautiful movement, introduced in nearby Washington, D.C., in the early 1900s, influenced the station's development as a union station through the consolidation of rail lines in Alexandria. This marked a shift from the construction of utilitarian rail stations to architecturally significant stations that were planned as municipal gateways and provided efficient and safe rail travel.
