Brickmakers Café offers a casual waterfront dining experience. Come sit by the water and enjoy lunch or dinner featuring fresh, local favorites, including a variety of grilled items and signature burgers.

Brickmakers Café is named for the beehive-shaped brick kilns that used to line the riverbank, which produced the bricks used to build many of the structures in Washington D.C. One beehive brick kiln remains at the park, serving as a reminder of the rich history of the area. Before or after your meal, stroll along the banks of the Occoquan River or through the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, also located in Occoquan Regional Park.

Reservations are accepted for groups of 10 or more for patio seating. Afterhours private rentals are available for a wide range of events including meetings, birthday celebrations, rehearsal dinners, retirements, and more. Standard and customized menu offerings are available. Hours vary by season, visit novaparks.com/Brickmakers for schedule.

GUNSTON HALL, known as The Home of American Rights, is the historic home of founding father George Mason, author of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights. Learn how George’s work influenced the Declaration of Independence and the US Bill of Rights. The historic site features George Mason’s Georgian-style mansion (built 1755 - 1759) situated on 550+ acres with Potomac River views. The site includes a visitor center, the exhibition Revolutionary Rights, three hiking trails, reconstructed outbuildings, and a historic riverside garden (open to the public on September 29, 2023.) Daily tours invite visitors to explore details of George Mason’s life, his ideas, and to think critically about the important principles and implications of the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

The house that was built for Thomson Francis Mason, is now open to the public. Thomson Francis Mason was the mayor of Alexandria, D.C. from 1827-30 and a grandson of George Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. He used the federal period villa, which was built for him in 1825, as a summer retreat. The 19th century architectural gem is located near the main entrance to Huntley Meadows Park . Historic Huntley is on the National Register of Historic Places, the Virginia Landmarks Register and the Fairfax County Inventory of Historic Sites. The buildings on site are open for rentals, scheduled programs and tours, and Saturday tours between the months of April through October.Tours are 10:30 a.m., noon, and 1:30 p.m.Admission:Students 16 and up - $4Adults - $5Seniors - $3Children 5 to 15 - $3Children under 5 - free admissionPayment by cash or check preferred, but we can accept Visa and Mastercard. Payment occurs on-site at Historic Huntley.

An elegant 9,400 square foot clubhouse is the site's centerpiece. The clubhouse contains an expanded pro shop, and meeting and dining facilities that allow us to serve tournament and outing groups. The Clubhouse design features materials and architectural details that celebrate the rich heritage of the former DC Department of Corrections Facility. Warm interior design details evoke a club atmosphere.

Located four miles south of Old Town Alexandria, River Farm rests on 25 acres of gardens and woods overlooking the Potomac River. Tucked conveniently close to the Washington, D.C. metro area, it serves as an ideal location for your wedding, social gathering, or business meeting. The manor-style house, formal and informal gardens, and sprawling lawns offer endless options for your creativity in planning a memorable event.

Visit Woodlawn, the first property operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Once part of Mount Vernon, George Washington gave the property to his step-granddaughter and nephew, Eleanor Parke Custis and Lawrence Lewis. Tour the mansion and see how the Lewis’s and people like Dolcey and her daughter Sukey, whom they enslaved, occupied the same spaces yet lived vastly different lives. Discover how Woodlawn became a center for anti-slavery activity and where free Blacks, Quakers, and others created a new farming community. Learn about the site’s significance to the 20th century historic preservation movement and tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey house, a Usonian home moved to the property to save it from demolition.

The Workhouse Arts Center, a program of the Workhouse Arts Foundation, provides essential visual and performing arts studio and exhibition space as well as engaging arts education programs for people of all ages and artistic abilities. Set on 55 acres of land in the historic D.C. Workhouse and Reformatory, the Workhouse provides a home for more than 65 of the regions finest professional and emerging artists as well as cooperative studios, performance and theater venues, dedicated gallery space, and event facilities.