Flounder Tavern Building, Sharpskin & Market Square Alleys, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

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Flounder Tavern Building, Sharpskin & Market Square Alleys, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

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Summary

Significance: This Alexandria founder building was built near 1800 and was doubled shortly after its construction with another "back-to-back" flounder building. This structure is sometimes reputed to have been Arell's Tavern and frequented by such Revolutionary dignitaries as George Washington.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-131
Survey number: HABS VA-621
Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928

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1800
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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alexandria37.43157, -78.65689
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Library of Congress
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