The Alexandria Library, Special Collections has launched a new web site
titled, “The Tax Assessor’s Handiwork: Alexandria’s Historic Structures
Online.”  These are digital files in the .pdf format of a special tax
assessment that was prepared in the late 1960s on roughly 6000 properties
in the Old and Historic District of Alexandria, VA.

This web site is part of a Library project in cooperation with the City of
Alexandria Archives and Records Center and is funded in part with a 2002
LSTA EZ Mini Grant from the Library of Virginia.

The content online thus far includes 300 of the project total of 2000
properties and will be added to as more material is digitized.  It will take
a few years, but we plan to digitize all 6000 records.

The URL is

www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc_online_collection_guides/proprec/proptax.html

please cut and paste into your brower’s web address window to access the
site.

As we are moving further along with the digitization process, we are coming
across quite a number of records for properties that were subsequently
razed.  As focused as we are in Old Town Alexandria on the age of the
buildings here, this project allows access to a large and significant
resource and will be of interest to students of architectural and urban
history as well as homeowners.
--
Joyce A. McMullin, Manager
Alexandria Library, Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314  USA
Phone:  703.838.4577 x 211
FAX:  703.706.3912
Special Collections Gateway:
http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc/special_collections_home.html

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