Some details remain to be worked out, but plans are moving forward on the quest to honor the late Evelyn Reid Syphax with an historical marker at the Arlington school system’s headquarters.
Syphax (1926-2000) was an educator, civic leader and...
Arlington County Board members later this month are expected to ratify creation of a local historic district for a single-family property in the Virginia Square neighborhood.
Both the homeowner (Marie Schum-Brady) and the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB)...
Arlington in recent years has lost several homes to the wrecking ball after their owners refused to support community efforts at including them in local historic districts.
But in the latest instance, the homeowner and preservationists are on the same...
Never accuse Arlington’s Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) with merely going with the flow.
Despite a near-consensus by county staff, local developers and other advisory bodies on the naming of two new parks after major projects in the...
Members of the Arlington Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) have opted against moving forward, for now, on a proposal to confer historic-district status on a 70-year-old apartment compound in the Arlington Mill neighborhood.
But the buildings may end...
Arlington’s historic-preservation panel has gone on record seeking formal recognition for a venerated leader in Arlington’s one-time Little Saigon community of Clarendon.
Members of the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) on June 15 voted to recommend some kind...
A revised plaque highlighting the nearly century-long provenance of Washington-Liberty – née “Washington-Lee” – High School has again received thumbs up from the Arlington government’s Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB).
The body on June 15 agreed unanimously –...
The planned redevelopment of a key Columbia Pike parcel could end up becoming a battle between preservationists and public-transportationists, with Arlington County Board members in between.
At issue is to how to deal with the two-story, Art Deco building that...
Veteran civic activist Bernie Berne used his silver oratory and powers of persuasion to convince members of the county government’s Historic Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB) to buck other groups and support a different name for a new...
It became a county historic landmark last year, and soon the Mount Salvation Baptist Church cemetery will have a marker denoting its status.
The panel currently is going through the review process on the way to being installed at the...