We had the Honor of leading the first annual star-spangled banner bicycle ride. The ride follows the trail the war of 1812 from old town Alexandria to Oxen Hill MD.  I was talking to Ruth the coordinator of the event.  She told me about the former Elks lodge on Prince street that was turn into condo's.  Below is what I was able to find on the internet about the lodge.

 One of Alexandria's stand-out structures of the first decade of the twentieth century is the 1909 Elks' Club at 318 Prince Street. It is a pretty standard brick example of the Beaux Arts style then popular for institutional buildings-with its clear tripartite organization of articulated base, columned "body," and prominent cornice. In addition to its classical flourishes, there are two elements which attract the eye. The second-story arch above the entry contains a full-size, half-ton bronze elk statue, with its head and antlers projecting just beyond the plane of the wall. It is a symbol, of course, of the fraternal organization once quartered here, the Alexandria lodge of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Above it, on the parapet of the building, is a clock which eternally reads 11:00. "Many citizens have assumed it to be in disrepair... Upon close inspection, the clock shows no evidence of working parts." It appears to be symbolic of a traditional Elks 11 p.m. toast to "all brothers everywhere, land or sea, and a remembrance of absent brothers at that hour." [Marilyn Burke, "The Elks Club at 318 Prince Street" in the Alexandria Chronicle, Summer 1993]"