History of Friends Meeting House Hospital
600 Wolfe Street
The Friends "Quaker" Meeting House was built in 1811. During the war, it was used as a hospital for First Division. Thirty-one patients at this hospital joined together to present a gold watch and chain to assistant surgeon Dr. Leon Hammond. (James Barber, Alexandria in the Civil War, H.E. Howard, publ., University of Virginia, 1988, pp. 400.)
After the war, the Alexandria Friends Society nearly dissolved and the property was leased for a school, and then a church. The second floor collapsed and the building was demolished in the 1880s.
Historic Image
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An image labeled Friends' Meeting-House in The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes is misidentified, and instead shows the Tuscan Villa and neighboring Wolfe Street Hospital across St. Asaph Street from the Quaker Meeting House.
Quartermaster Map
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Location and the Site Today
The building, at 600 Wolfe Street, was demolished in the 1880s. The Little Theatre of Alexandria now occupies the site.
- Google Maps. See the location today
- Civil War Hospitals Map. See location of hospital in relation to others
- Union Hospitals in Alexandria. Return to main page
- Alexandria Civil War Hospitals. interactive Story Map
- Alexandria Civil War Hospitals. Walking Tour Brochure