Inspiring Beautification Through Awards
The Commission encourages citizens to achieve a more beautiful and livable Alexandria through its awards program. See the 2025 Awards Nomination & awards criteria for details. Looking for inspiration on how you could receive an award? Check out past winners below & these sustainable practices & tips.
2025 Beautification Award Winners
2025 RESIDENTIAL BEAUTIFICATION AWARD WINNERS
This year’s winners are using their yards to educate their neighbors about the benefits of native plants, pollinators, and energy efficiency. Most residents have minimized or swapped lawns for carefully selected natives and artistic accents. With or without large yards, these residents have nurtured their plants without pesticides, proving that impact isn’t limited by size. Among the eight residential winners are certified wildlife habitats and gardens bursting with native blooms like serviceberry, buttonbush, coreopsis, milkweed, coneflowers and phlox.
18 South Hudson Street
34 South Ingram Street
1310 North Chambliss Street
523 North Paxton Street
217 East Custis Avenue
2621 East Randolph Avenue
921 Duke Street
634 North Payne Street
2025 RESIDENTIAL STREET AWARD WINNERS
To encourage neighborhood-wide impact, we introduced a new award category this year to recognize residential streets where multiple households have embraced sustainable landscaping. These blocks demonstrate how neighbors working together can create beautiful, environmentally friendly streetscapes that inspire others to do the same.
409 East Alexandria Avenue
411 East Alexandria Avenue
519 East Nelson Avenue
521 East Nelson Avenue
545 East Nelson Avenue
547 East Nelson Avenue
551 East Nelson Avenue
555 East Nelson Avenue
205 Park Road
212 Park Road
301 Park Road
303 Park Road
311 Park Road
2025 COMMUNITY AWARD WINNERS
This year’s community winners showcase a wide variety of sustainability initiatives – from LEED Silver-certified buildings and rain gardens to native trees that cool heat islands in parking lots. Public art also continues to enhance Alexandria’s beauty and character. Among this year’s winning murals are portraits with quotes from social justice leaders that inspire passersby and a loading dock door now adorned with vibrant dogwood blossoms, the state flower of Virginia.
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Auburn Village Condominium
Chinquapin Community Garden
The Patrick Henry Elementary School & Recreation Center
Linder Academy Murals
The Garden Del Ray
Torpedo Factory Art Center Loading Door Mural
Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing
2025 HONORABLE MENTIONS
Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail
North Alexandria Native Plant Sale
The Episcopal Church of Saint Clement
Christ the King Anglican Church
2008-2024 Beautification Award Winners
2024 Beautification Award Winners
2023 Beautification Award Winners
2022 Beautification Award Winners
2021 Beautification Award Winners
2019 Beautification Award Winners
2018 Beautification Award Winners
2017 Beautification Award Winners
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2016 Beautification Award Winners
- 2016 Beautification Award Winners
