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328 reviews. #7 of 126 things to do in Alexandria. Speciality Museums. Closed now. Write a review. About. A Georgian mansion built in 1753 by merchant and City founder John Carlyle. Five governors and General Braddock met here to discuss funding the French and Indian War.
On the National Register of Historic Places, Carlyle House is architecturally unique in Alexandria as the only stone, 18th-century Georgian house. Daily tours of the house, school programs, special events, exhibits, holiday open houses, and lectures explore the life and times of John Carlyle in pre-Revolutionary Alexandria.
Carlyle's magnificent stone house dominated Alexandria’s 18th-century landscape and confirmed Carlyle’s status as a gentleman and entrepreneur. Today, Carlyle House is one of the nation’s finest examples of Georgian residential architecture.
Oct 5, 2021 · Carlyle House was the initial headquarters for Major General Edward Braddock during that war. Carlyle died in 1780 and was buried at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria. Today,...
Apr 19, 2024 · Carlyle House is an 18th Century mansion built by John Carlyle, a wealthy British merchant and a founder of Alexandria. He completed his stone residence in 1753, built with the labor of slaves....
Carlyle House Historic Park, Alexandria, Virginia. 3,131 likes · 47 talking about this · 6,462 were here. Carlyle House Historic Park, built in 1753, was the home of merchant and town founder John...
Alexandria. If you have time for just one historic house tour in Alexandria, make it this one. The house dates from 1753 when merchant and city founder, John Carlyle, built the most lavish mansion in town (which in those days was little more than log cabins and muddy lanes).
