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Discovering a Detailed Landscape of Alexandria in 1864

We dug up a great old photo of Alexandria from 1864 and found another gem at the Library of Congress. What do you recognize in this photo?
Third in a series of four panoramic photographs of Washington, D.C., from left to right (west to east) taken from a tower in the Smithsonian Institution Building. The Mall area is covered with trees. The streets on the left perpendicular to the Mall are 12th Street and 11th Street. The long building on the right is Center Market bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue, 7th and 9th Streets, N.W. Up and behind Center Market on the right, the large building is the Pension Bureau Building bounded by F and G Streets, N.W., between 4th and 5th Streets, designed by General Montgomery C. Meigs, completed in 1887, later occupied by many government agencies and now known as the National Building Museum
Proposed highway in Arlington
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We dug up a great old photo of Alexandria from a distance the other day, and found another gem at the Library of Congress.

View of Alexandria, Va., showing new engine house in which sixty engines can be stored in working order
View of Alexandria, Va., showing new engine house in which sixty engines can be stored in working order

What do you recognize in this photo?

Source: Library of Congress

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