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...