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Can You Find These Homes Today? I Did Some Sleuthing and This is What I Found

Published August 8, 2023

Can you find the homes shown in this 1920 Alexandria real estate advertisement? I did some sleuthing and this is what I found. Take a look at the Google Street View and see what you think! Plus, a super random historical context about George Gipp.

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Can you find these homes today? I did some sleuthing and the best I could come up with was E Walnut St between Little St. and Mt. Vernon Ave. The directions in the advertisement seem to hint at that location too. I just can’t figure out which homes they are. The ad below was printed in The Evening Star on December 20th, 1920.

Source: Library of Congress

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Looking at the Google Street View below, it almost looks like the photo in the ad is reversed. What do you think?

<p>By the way, super random historical context … six days prior to this ad being run in the paper, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gipp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">George Gipp</a> was born. You might also know him as “The Gipper.” Yes, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCwxMvXPZo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">that one</a> – win one for the Gipper.</p>

Posted in Old Ads & Classifieds
and tagged 1920s, Alexandria VA

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