NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District Other names/site number: DHR File No.: 029-5181 Name of related multiple property listing: N/A (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: Bounded by Old Mill Rd, Mt Vernon Memorial Hwy, Fort Belvoir, and Dogue Creek City or town: Alexandria State: VA County: Fairfax Not For Publication: N/A Vicinity: X ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: X national ___ statewide _X__ local Applicable National Register Criteria: X A ___B X C D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date _Virginia Department of Historic Resources_______________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District Fairfax County, VA Name of Property County and State Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District Fairfax County, VA Name of Property County and State ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) District X Site Structure Object Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District Fairfax County, VA Name of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing _____17______ ______18_____ buildings _____14______ _______4______ sites _______2_____ ______6______ structures ______0______ ______ 0______ objects _____32______ ______28______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register _13________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) DOMESTIC/single dwelling, secondary structures AGRICULTURE/storage, agricultural field, animal facility, agricultural outbuilding RECREATION AND CULTURE/museum INDUSTRY/processing site LANDSCAPE/park RELIGION/religious facility FUNERARY/cemetery Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) RECREATION AND CULTURE/museum LANDSCAPE/park________ RELIGION/religious facility FUNERARY/cemetery_________________ AGRICULTURE/animal facility, agricultural outbuilding Sections 1-6 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District Fairfax County, VA Name of Property County and State _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) COLONIAL/ Georgian/ Georgian Palladian EARLY REPUBLIC/Federal LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival MODERN MOVEMENT/Usonian OTHER/Quaker Plain Style OTHER/I-house OTHER/ Bank barn Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: WOOD/Weatherboard, Shingle, Plywood; Cypress; BRICK; STONE/Sandstone; CONCRETE Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph Located in Northern Virginia’s highly suburbanized southeastern Fairfax County, the Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District lies approximately seven miles southwest of the City of Alexandria, straddling U.S. Route 1 (Richmond Highway) and State Route 235 (Mount Vernon Memorial Highway). The approximately 152-acre district, roughly bounded by Dogue Creek, Fort Belvoir, Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway, and Jeff Todd Way, retains the last traces of a rural, agricultural community, historically known as Woodlawn. Properties within the district are connected by undulating hills and vegetation that are evocative of the district’s rural origins but are in fact carefully managed. The properties retain their historic spatial relationships in a relatively small pocket of land that, through careful planning, conservation of open spaces, and judicious landscaping, maintains its historic feeling, despite later military and suburban development surrounding it. The district’s cultural landscape relays the multilayered history of the Woodlawn area. The district is comprised of seven contiguous tracts and one discontiguous tract (containing the Woodlawn United Methodist Church Cemetery, which is historically associated with the district). Contributing resources include buildings, structures, and sites that historically and, in some cases, currently serve residential, religious, agricultural, cemetery, and/or industrial uses. Construction dates for these built resources span more than a century, with the earliest extant building dating between 1801 and 1805, and the latest dating to 1941. Landscape designs and restorations occurred during the 1950s at Woodlawn. The historic district encompasses several properties that already are individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse (NRHP 2009); Woodlawn Plantation (NRHP 1970; NHL 1988) Section 7 page 5 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Woodlawn Cultural Landscape Historic District Fairfax County, VA Name of Property County and State and Woodlawn Plantation Boundary Increase (NRHP 2011); Pope-Leighey House (NRHP 1970); and George Washington’s Gristmill (NRHP 2003; Additional Documentation 2009). _____________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description Setting The approximately 152-acre district is composed of five contiguous tracts and one discontiguous property. Of those that are contiguous, two of the tracts belong to the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) and comprise a combined total of just over 120 acres, or nearly 85 percent of the district. The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, Alexandria Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, and the Pillar Church of Dumfries own the remaining three contiguous tracts. This is the main body of the district and its irregularly shaped boundary is coterminous with the perimeter lines of the five contiguous parcels (Figure 1). The previous and current alignments of U.S. Route 1 extend on a generally east/west axis through the historic district’s contiguous tracts.1 The contiguous parcels hold a range of resources, many of which already are individually designated, as shown in the table below. Owner Property Name Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) and DHR National Register (NRHP) Status Inventory