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Proposed Local Historic District Designation of the Wilson School Staff Presentation to LRPC March 31, 2015 Introduction Purposes of Presentation: Historic Preservation 101 Understand the basics. 1. 2. Historic Overview of the Wilson

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Proposed Local Historic District Designation

  • f the Wilson School

Staff Presentation to LRPC

March 31, 2015

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Introduction

  • Purposes of Presentation:

1. Historic Preservation 101 – Understand the basics. 2. Historic Overview of the Wilson School. 3. Historic Designation Process: Progress to date and next steps.

Wilson School at 1601 Wilson Boulevard

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Historic Preservation 101

  • Types of historic designation:

– Local historic districts

  • Protected via zoning overlay and design review process with

HALRB

  • See §11.3 and 15.8 of ACZO
  • Arlington currently has 36 local districts

– Listings in National Register of Historic Places

  • Honorific list without protections
  • Maintained by National Park Service
  • Arlington currently has 71 listings in National Register

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Historic Overview

  • Oldest school building in County under APS ownership

– Built 1910 as Fort Myer Heights School – Renamed in 1925 to honor former President Woodrow Wilson

  • Designed by architect Charles Morrison Robinson
  • 2nd oldest extant school in County
  • Original architectural features:
  • Massing of original 1910 block
  • Materials (concrete and brick on exterior; tin ceilings on interior)
  • Spatial arrangement of front elevation
  • Frieze
  • Scrolled modillion cornice
  • Hipped roof

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Historic Overview

Wilson School Then… and Now…

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Image courtesy of Center for Local History, Arlington Public Library

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Wilson School & WRAPS

  • WRAPS charge states:

– “Consider the feasibility of incorporating architectural elements

  • f the Wilson School building in the overall development.”
  • Draft Guiding Principle for Architecture/Historic

Preservation states:

– “Incorporate or reference architectural elements of the 1910 Wilson School building… in any buildings that succeed [it].”

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Designation Process to Date

  • MoU between HALRB, APS, and County signed July

2004 (re: historic designation processes)

  • 1st designation request received February 2007

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  • 2nd designation request received 11/17/14
  • 1st HALRB hearing 1/21/15
  • School Board hearings

– Info Item 2/5/15 – Action Item 2/17/15

  • 2nd HALRB hearing 2/18/15
  • RTA approved by County Board 3/14/15

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HALRB’s Proposed Boundary

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Designation Process Next Steps

  • LRPC: March 31
  • Planning Commission: April 6
  • County Board Action: April 18 or 21

QUESTIONS?

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