Tag: hugo black house

Your Views: Too many snafus on Black house

To the editor: I attended the appeal of the Board of Architectural Review hearing heard before Alexandria City Council on May 14. The original expectation...

Your Views: What’s the point?

To the editor: Paige Pollard of the Commonwealth Preservation Group writes in the May 9 Alexandria Times, “Black house is in compliance with easement” that...

Our View: The implications of our history

The history of a place encompasses more than buildings. History is too complicated and layered to be contained just by structures, even ones as...

Your Views: Please protect the Justice Black house

To the editor: The future of the Vowell-Snowden-Black house at 619 S. Lee St. is in jeopardy. Not only will proposed plans for additions and modifications...

Our View: No ease-y solution

The controversy surrounding the home popularly called the Hugo Black house, previously owned by the late, famed Supreme Court justice, is not as cut-and-dried...

A civil fight over an Old Town landmark

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] It’s not often that Alexandria’s various historic preservation organizations band together to oppose a project, but one family’s home improvement...