City of Fairfax Historic District
The City of Fairfax Historic District is a national historic district located at Fairfax, Virginia.
The City of Fairfax Historic District is a national historic district located at Fairfax, Virginia. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Fairfax. Notable buildings include the Old Town Hall, which was built in 1900; the Barbour Building; First National Bank of Fairfax; Ford Building; Marsh House; McHugh & Hoffman Building; Rust Building; and Truro Church. Located in the district are the separately listed Historic Fairfax County Courthouse, Old Fairfax County Jail, and Ratcliffe-Logan-Allison House.
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Worth seeing in and around City of Fairfax Historic District
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Patriot Center
EagleBank Arena is an indoor arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, United States. Opened 41 years ago in 1985, it is the home of Patriot men's & women's basketball, and is a venue for concerts and family shows, with 17,000 square feet of space.
2.2 km · arena · Wikipedia - 02Flint Hill School
Flint Hill School, founded in 1956, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Oakton, Virginia, serving grades JK–12. The school has separate upper and lower school campuses about a mile apart in Fairfax County, approximately 20 miles from Washington, D.C. In 2025, Niche ranked Flint Hill School 9 out of 2,489 private schools in the United States, making it the best in Virginia.
2.9 km · independent, day, college-preparatory school in Oakton, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 03Historic Blenheim
Historic Blenheim is a c. 1859 brick farm house designed in the Greek Revival style and located in City of Fairfax, Virginia.
1.5 km · building in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 04St. Mary of Sorrows
St. Mary of the Sorrows is a Catholic parish located in Fairfax, Virginia.
3.7 km · church in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 05Truro Church
Truro Anglican Church is an Anglican church in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Founded in the eighteenth century, the parish has played a significant role in the Anglican tradition in Northern Virginia. In 2006, the congregation voted to depart from The Episcopal Church amid longstanding theological and doctrinal disputes, including disagreements over the authority of Scripture, core Christian doctrines, and matters of church governance.
200 m · church in Virginia USA, United States · Wikipedia - 06Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
The Volgenau School of Engineering is part of the George Mason University College of Engineering and Computing. Based in the Fairfax campus of George Mason University in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Volgenau School offers programs at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels.
2.1 km · Constitutent college of George Mason University · Wikipedia
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Getting to City of Fairfax Historic District
- Airports
- Washington Dulles (IAD), 17 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 23 km · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 66 km
- Baltimore → City of Fairfax Historic District78 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $7–10
- Richmond → City of Fairfax Historic District144 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $13–17
- Philadelphia → City of Fairfax Historic District221 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · $20–27
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- Get aroundReston Paths is an extensive bike/walking path system.
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Next door to City of Fairfax Historic District
City of Fairfax Historic District is 24 km from Washington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Fairfaxindependent city in Virginia, United States700 m
- Jermantownunincorporated community in Virginia2.5 km