Royd R. Sayers Collection (MS094)

Location of collection:

Alexandria Library

Alexandria Library

Local History/Special Collections

717 Queen Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager

Email: pwalker@alexlibraryva.org

Phone: (703) 746-1719

Email: lhsc@alexandria.lib.va.us

Phone: (703) 838-4577

Fax: (703) 706-3912

Web: alexlibraryva.org/lhsc

Summary

Extent:

.17 Linear Feet 1 box

Language:

English .

Background

Scope and content:

This collection pertains to the house on 607 Oronoco Street. The Sayers opened the house for Garden Week in Virginia, the Tour of Interiors and the Alexandria Garden Club Tour of Five Estates. Included are the pamphlets for the Tour of Interiors of Historic Homes in Alexandria and Garden Week in Virginia and the registers from the Tour of Historic Homes for the 1934 to 1941 period.

Biographical / historical:

Between May 1932 and November 1941, Dr. and Mrs. Royd R. Sayers owned the boyhood home of Robert E. Lee at 607 Oronoco Street

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Letters.
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 -- Homes and haunts.
Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home
Historic districts -- Virginia -- Alexandria
Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Alexandria -- Conservation and restoration.