Alexandria City Post Office and Custom House

Alexandria VA

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Here is a great old photo we dug up showing the Alexandria Custom House in 1918.

custom house in Alexandria

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Source: Library of Congress

READ: 1921 Map of an Undeveloped Del Ray

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