Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Thursday, March 23, 2023
A rare streak of good news for historic preservationists. The county board appears poised to grant local historic district status to the handsome, 1912-vintage “Anderson House” home near Virginia Square. Owner Marie Schum-Brady worked with the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board and a rich county preservation staff history […]
For years, Yorktown High School sports fans muddled through without the pride—enjoyed by graduates of rivals Wakefield and Washington-Liberty–of having placed an alumnus in the National Football League. That misery ended in 2018, when M.J. Stewart, following a four-year career as a defensive back for the University of North Carolina, […]
The religious element in the debate over Missing Middle housing was on dramatic display November 17th, as 266 advocates packed the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington. Put on by the Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement—a coalition of 50 faith and civic groups—the evening of speakers, music and song […]
Our county’s 80-plus churches have roots in the 18th century (remember that Glebe Rd. is named for a church’s slice of income-producing land, and the Glebe House on N. 17th St., rebuilt in the 1850s, still stands). The first on our soil was likely George Washington Parke Custis’s “Chapel of […]
Mansion on a hill for sale. With a storied history. The old M.T. Broyhill Place, looming at 2561 N. Vermont overlooking the Washington Golf and Country Club, is empty and on the market for $3.6 million. When owner Helena Metzger died this February at 88, her beneficiary—the Catholic Prelature […]
A surprising portion of our citizenry appears unfamiliar with the grim legacy the American Nazi Party left during its militant presence in Arlington,1958 —1983. Its charismatic, nationally dreaded leader George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated at the Dominion Hills Shopping Center on Aug. 25, 1967. The man convicted of that […]
Seeking a crystal ball for next steps in the Missing Middle housing debate, I watched the Oct. 17 meeting of credentialed volunteers on the Long Range Planning Committee, part of Arlington’s Planning Commission. The tone was civil, and members have clearly heard the protests against the preliminary framework mostly from […]
In this era of renamings, there’s one longstanding Arlington school whose shedding of its moniker seems lost in mists of time. Page Elementary, at 1501 N. Lincoln St. in my boyhood neighborhood of Cherrydale, was built in 1953 during the postwar baby boom—a time when our county was bent on […]
Portland, Oregon, a frequently cited model among advocates of looser zoning to encourage less-pricey home ownership, took centerstage at an Oct. 13 panel on Arlington’s debate over “Missing Middle” at which a variety of organizations called for action to address the regional housing shortage. Sandra Wood, principal planner at Portland’s […]
To builders, it’s a dream house. To policymakers, a “house out of scale with the neighbors .” To many onlookers, it’s yet another McMansion. And these looming, barn-like monuments derided as conspicuous consumption have proliferated on too-small lots in Arlington. In the debate over whether to allow more Missing Middle […]
