The childhood home of Robert E. Lee is on the market for $8.5 million.
Lee grew up in the home at 607 Oronoco Street in Old Town Alexandria, directly across from the Lee-Fendall House Museum.
The home was built in 1795 and hasn't been on the market in 50 years and is a registered Virginia landmark. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The home has 8,000 square feet of living space and sits on more than half an acre of landscaped gardens. According to the listing, it was recently "the subject of a detailed and complete professional restoration."
It has six bedrooms, four full baths and two half baths, a two-car garage, an eat-in kitchen and multiple fireplaces.
The listing agents are Robert Hryniewicki and Christopher Leary of Washington Fine Properties.
