Description
This photograph, taken around 1864, shows Aspinwall Hall, including its central structure, Meade Hall, a group of buildings that are part of the Virginia Episcopal Theological Seminary. The Seminary had been in operation in Alexandria since the 1820s, and Aspinwall Hall was constructed in the late 1850s. Prior to emancipation the Episcopal Seminary hired enslaved people to work for the institution, and the surrounding neighborhood of “Seminary”, or later, “Mudtown,” was predominantly Black.
