What used to be "West End" Alexandria?
Before Maury Elementary School was opened in 1929, children from Rosemont attended school in a small building on the south side of Shuter’s Hill (near the later-built maintenance building for the George Washington Masonic Memorial, visible from Duke Street). The school was referred to as the “West End School”; although “West End” now has a different meaning in Alexandria, since the late 18th century the area just outside the colonial-era boundaries of Alexandria had been known by that name, and hosted businesses such as butchers and millers that were not desired within the city. The West End School was used as an overflow facility for a few years after Maury was built, but was demolished by the early 1930s.