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The Shreve House in Old Town Alexandria has a handmade, mahogany front door and was once owned by a prominent Quaker family. During the Civil War, it was used as barracks by wounded soldiers and was occupied by escaped slaves.

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After stepping through the handmade, mahogany front door of a home nestled in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, visitors might feel as though they’d been transported back to the late 1700s, the period during which this Virginia home was built.

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