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From YouTube: Historic Resources Inventory
Description
Mary Curtius speaks with Michael Leventhal, Arlington's Historic Preservation Program Coordinator, about the county's Historic Resources Inventory. A list of Arlington's essential and important buildings and properties which is intended to bring clarity and transparency to Arlington's development process while protecting important pieces of our past.
A
Today,
arlington
county
is
known
as
a
model
for
transit,
oriented
development
or
smart
growth.
Our
vibrant,
modern
urban
villages
represent
the
best
of
cutting-edge
urban
planning,
but
can
we
also
take
pride
in
Arlington's
history
I'm
meeting
today
with
Michael
Leventhal,
the
county's
historic
preservation
program
coordinator,
who
agreed
to
visit
a
few
pieces
of
our
heritage
with
me
over
the
last
several
years
at
the
direction
of
the
county
board
Michael
and
his
staff
have
engaged
in
an
ambitious
effort
to
identify
and
classify
historic
resources
across
Arlington
a
historic
resources
inventory.
B
The
Pentagon
was
built
for
18
42
to
44,
and
this
entire
development
was
built.
The
same
time
we
had
from
nineteen
thirty
five
to
nineteen
fifty-four,
176
garden
apartment
complexes
and
single
buildings
built
for
greater
than
anywhere
else
in
the
country
solely
for
government
workers
and
in
Orange
County,
one
of
the
things
that
they
demand
it
as
these
were
being
built
is
that
they
had
to
be
built
as
permanent
residences,
and
so
there
are
all
brick
and
slate
Wolf's
these
buildings,
though
they
are
built
from
the
forties.
B
You
can
look
at
them,
there's
not
a
fissure
in
the
stonework.
There
are
as
strong
as
ever.
They
are
just
absolutely
exquisite
and
the
interior
spaces.
Well,
they're,
somewhat
small
to
people's
standards,
who
want
to
have
a
5,000
square
foot
house
can
still
be
malleable
for
current
and
contemporary
life
and
listen
for
people
who
are
just
rockin
bees.
Having
about
secretaries
bean
counters,
the
guys
had
the
girls
who
looked
in
the
pose
to
the
government.
This
is
their
home,
so.
B
B
Needed
to
be
not
not
altered,
or
there
have
been
changes,
the
changes
did
not
change
with
contact
the
context
of
the
architecture
mm-hmm.
Secondly,
if
it
were
designed
by
would
say
we're
harmless,
Roby
one
of
the
great
architecture
market,
that
would
get
you
a
point
if
the
complexes
were
still
on
hold.
That
would
give
you
a
point.
There
are
a
couple
of
added
features.
This
is
the
first
two
biggest
the
largest.
B
So
we've
seen
the
residential
building,
so
this
is
the
commercial
buildings
of
the
essential
group,
and
this
is
Clara.
Didn't
clarity
was
planted
in
1900
and
started
development
from
the
teens
to
about
the
30s
and
what
you
have
across
the
street
or
the
buildings
that
were
built
in
this
time
period,
where
you
have
the
Masonic
go
to
the
clarendon
ballroom
spider
kelly's,
which
used
to
be
the
sanitary
market,
grocery
store
and
the
odd
fellows
building,
and
then
the
reason
building
down
there-
and
this
is
the
beginning
of
the
commercial
area
in
arlington
county
now,.
A
B
An
essential,
well,
the
dinners
have
not
changed
architectural,
a
as
you
see
them,
while
they
have
new
uses
that
have
been
very
careful,
very
sensitive
to
the
architecture,
so
they
still
read
the
way.
They've
always
read
with
very
minor
changes.
These
buildings
still
represent
the
heart
of
Arlington's
architectural
history
and
heritage.
So.
B
At
all,
not
at
all
they
did.
This
is
not
to
try
to
create
a
historic
village
where
we
wear
costumes.
This
is
a
vibrant,
ongoing
community.
The
thing
about
preservation
in
origin
is
very
pragmatically
based.
We
try
to
save
buildings.
Friday
preserve
buildings,
try
to
encourage
stewardship
so
that
there's
a
passage
through
time
in
our
community,
where
you
see
buildings
at
different
times,
different
period
different
ages.
So.
B
Is
correct,
the
whole
idea
of
the
HRI
is
so
that
developers,
people
who
own
the
property
know
from
the
get-go.
If
it's
the
central
building,
it's
a
billion
that
we
would
like
to
see
incorporated
into
a
plan
rather
than
raised
and
something
new
built
on
the
site.
We
want
to
deal
with
these
people
and
let
them
know
upfront.
These
buildings
are
important.
We
don't
want
developers
to
spend
money
on
plans
and
attorney
fees.
Only
do
you
find
out
at
the
very
end
that
these
villains
are
valuable.
They
should
go
from
the
beginning.