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Upcoming Hearing: Stratford Designation @ Planning Commission, June 6

Upcoming Hearing: Stratford Designation @ Planning Commission, June 6

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The Arlington County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the Stratford School Historic Designation on June 6, 2016. The item under consideration will be designation of an Arlington Historic District Overlay that includes the Stratford School Historic District and the adoption of associated Historic District Design Guidelines. This ordinance would make the property subject to Historic District regulations. It is item #3. The full hearing agenda can be found on the county website. If you are able to…

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Upcoming Hearing:
HALRB April 20

Upcoming Hearing:
HALRB April 20

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The April meeting of the HALRB (Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board) will be held on April 20. The agenda includes several interesting items for consideration in addition to the standard requests in the Maywood Local Historic District. One item is a request to remove and replace six arched windows at Swanson Middle School, which is formally designated as the Swanson Middle School Historic District. These windows came in over budget and were identified by Arlington Public Schools as a…

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Upcoming Hearing:
School Board & Stratford

Upcoming Hearing:
School Board & Stratford

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At its April 21 meeting, the Arlington School Board will once again have an informational item on the Stratford Junior High School Historic District. Staff will present the latest (and shorter) version of the Design Guidelines. This item is once again last on the agenda. It is expected the School Board will take a formal vote at their May 5 meeting. The Arlington County Board will then do a Request to Advertise (RTA) at its May 14 meeting. Final action…

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Upcoming Hearing:
School Board
Stratford Designation, Dec. 8

Upcoming Hearing:
School Board
Stratford Designation, Dec. 8

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The first item for consideration on the December 8 Arlington County School Board Agenda is the historic district designation for the Stratford School Building. It is being advertised as an “Action Item”. The staff report is expected to be available by COB, Friday, December 4. If you are interested in speaking on this item, you can sign-up online, until 4 PM on December 8, by filling out this Speaker Form. If you are unable to speak at the public hearing,…

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Upcoming Meetings:
School Board & Stratford

Upcoming Meetings:
School Board & Stratford

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The Arlington County School Board will hold two meetings on the historic district designation of Stratford Junior High School in August. HALRB recommended designation at their June 2015 Public Hearing. No schedule is in place yet for action on this designation by the School Board or County Board. The first meeting is a a “Work Session” on the Stratford construction project. It will be August 11th at 7:00 PM in Room 101 at the Education Center, 1426 North Quincy Street….

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More Seats: Secondary Seats

More Seats: Secondary Seats

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At a November 5 meeting of Arlington Public Schools’ Secondary Seats Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) group, a wide variety of proposals for “more seats” for students were released for community input. Three of the sites — Reed School, Wilson School and Stratford School — are all important historic community buildings having served the educational needs of Arlington residents for generations. The Stratford School is on the National Register; Reed School just underwent a major renovation in which the original school…

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Back to School: Great Additions, Great Lessons

Back to School: Great Additions, Great Lessons

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Preservation Arlington celebrates the return to the school year with a four-day series looking at one of the most important buildings types in our community — the school house. Yesterday, we highlighted some of Arlington’s best-designed school buildings, spanning different decades. Today we are looking at successful school expansions that respect the original building while meeting the needs of our expanding school age population. All of these schools, most of which originally date to the 1950s — the period of…

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Preserved & Developed: Stratford Junior High
(aka H.B. Woodlawn)

Preserved & Developed: Stratford Junior High
(aka H.B. Woodlawn)

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Preserved & Developed is a biweekly series of articles by Preservation Arlington highlighting local development projects that have involved both development of a site and preservation of historic resources. The projects highlight a wide range of challenges and solutions over many years. At the time they were completed the projects represented a commitment by the developer and the community to embrace the future and preserve the past. Preservation Arlington is awarding each project a gold, silver, or bronze star based…

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