HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION, INC.

HAF Grant Recipients

  • Afro-American Historic Sites Survey (Office of Historic Alexandria)
  • Alexander Family Bible conservation
  • Alexandria Academy building restoration
  • Alexandria Archaeology
    • funding for a digitized map of Alexandria
    • exhibit showcasing freed and enslaved African Americans
  • Alexandria City Archive Center
    • conservation of historic building records
  • Alexandria Black History Resource Center (Office of Historic Alexandria)
    • installation of a permanent exhibition
    • installation of a new exhibition of period photographs
  • Alexandria Canal Tidelock historical marker
  • Alexandria Elks Lodge, #48
    • a structural study, roof repairs and painting
  • Alexandria Library Company
    • bicentennial publication
    • funding for purchase of a 1796 map of Alexandria and George Washington ledger
  • Alexandria Library
    • database of historic architectural resources
  • Alexandria Seaport Foundation
    • conservation of the Potomac River Ark
  • ALIVE House shelter restoration
  • Athenaeum (Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association)
    • masonry repairs
    • mechanical systems repairs
    • restoration of fluting on columns
    • new gutters and downspouts
    • windows restorations
    • matching grant for stucco restoration of Doric columns
    • funding for the restoration of stucco on the Lee Street façade
  • American Horticultural Society
    • to extend a walkway at River Farm
  • Basilica School of Saint Mary
    • restoration of Cupola with 1811 School Bell
  • Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee House Museum
    • guidebook for the historic site<
  • Campagna Center
    • masonry repairs
  • Carlyle House Museum (Northern Virginia Regional Parks Authority)
    • conservation survey of the Bank of Alexandria building
    • historic paint analysis of interior
  • City of Alexandria Planning Department
    • “An Alexandria Builder’s Companion,” historic building styles and technologies for the purchase of
      hardware for the digital survey of the Old & Historic District
  • Del Ray Historic District Nomination
  • Episcopal High School
    • conservation of composition ornament in Hoxton House (The Eliza Custis Law house, “Mount
      Washington”)
  • Freedom House Museum
    • creation of Alexandria Slave Pen Model Circa 1840
    • digitization of material from the Rice C. Ballard Slave-Trading Papers, 1822-1888
  • Friends of Historic Christ Church
    • conservation study of 18th and 19th century tombstones
  • Friendship Fire House Museum (Office of Historic Alexandria)
    • funding for restoration of historic 19th century fire-fighting machines
    • restoration of mid-19th Century Hand Drawn Fire Engine
HAF president, Dr. Morgan Delaney
HAF president, Dr. Morgan Delaney with, grant recipient Gretchen Bulova, Director of the Gadsby's Tavern Museum at the annual spring Garden Party.
  • Gadby’s Tavern Museum (Office of Historic Alexandria)
    • ceramics exhibition
    • conservation of 18th c. mirror and fabrication of a reproduction for ballroom
    • architectural investigation of the interior woodwork
    • exhibit case for changing exhibits
    • funding for stabilization of the ballroom floor
    • dendrochronology to establish age of both buildings
  • Garden Club of Alexandria
    • Lloyd House garden archeology
  • Greater Alexandria Preservation Alliance
    • Historic Structure Report for GW Carver Nursery School
  • History Revealed- Shopping Stories
    • showcasing 18th Century Alexandria Merchants
  • Hooff’s Run Bridge National Register Nomination (Office of Historic Alexandria)
  • Jones Point Lighthouse restoration
  • Lee-Fendall House Museum
    • roof replacement
    • window conservation
    • historic structures report on exterior walls and paint analysis
    • funding for AV equipment, educational and exhibition programs
    • plaster repairs
    • funding for structural repairs
    • repairs to entrance porch
    • restoration of the dining room
    • archaeological excavation and redesign project for the garden
    • rebuilding a chimney damaged by the earthquake
  • The Lyceum (Office of Historic Alexandria)
    • Alexandria silver exhibition catalogue
  • Office of Historic Alexandria
    • digitization of oral histories
  • Old Presbyterian Meeting House
    • restoration of the grave marker of Sarah Fairfax Carlyle (1730-1761)
  • Murray-Dick Fawcett House-
    • a dendrochronology of the house
  • Northern Virginia Urban League
    • funding for museum space at “Freedom House”
  • Preservation Alliance of Virginia – local affiliate training grant
  • Rosemont Historic District Nomination
  • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church
    • undercroft repairs
    • building restoration project
    • restoration of original trim at entrance doors
  • Scholarship Fund of Alexandria-
    • scholarships to senior students who plan to study history in college
  • Seminary Hill Citizens Association
    • survey of historic structures
  • Stabler Leadbeater Apothecary Shop Museum (Office of Historic Alexandria)
    • conservation of paper records and herbs
    • paint analysis of the interior and exterior of the museum
    • conservation of gilded glass letters
    • dendrochronology study to determine age of both buildings
    • replication of the 1850’s show globes
    • reproduction and installation of the historic ceiling medallion for the Apothecary retail shop
    • restoration of églomisé panels
    • conservation of museum artifacts
    • restoration of photographs in museum collections
    • survey of historic structures
  • The Tall Ship Foundation
    • installation of a new historic bowsprit
Previous grant recipient
Previous grant recipient, the Friendship Fire Company was the first volunteer fire company in Alexandria. The current firehouse was built in 1855 and now houses historic firefighting equipment and exhibits.