Travel south on Washington Street from the heart of Old Town Alexandria and you will come to the gallery of Sumpter Priddy III. The building has a large corner bay window filled with American art and antiques. Sumpter is a native Virginian, and he is a renowned Southern furniture scholar. He has a personal reference library of over four thousand books.

There are three galleries in the building. One is known as the yellow gallery and is for formal pieces. The other gallery on the first floor is the folk gallery.

The gallery focus is Southern furniture, but they are also branching out into more New England items. Sumpter travels to do only one outside show a year, the Philadelphia Antiques Show. Special shows are put on at the gallery, the last one was called simply "Southern".