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From YouTube: Historic Resource Inventory
Description
Mary Curtius from Arlington's Office of Communications speaks with Michael Leventhal, Arlington's Historic Preservation Program Coordinator, about the county's Historic Resources Inventory. The HRI is 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
Arlington
is
rapidly
developing
into
a
modern
urban
community,
but
the
county
also
has
many
historical
buildings
that
need
preserving.
In
our
final
story,
Mary
Curtis
discovers
how
Arlington
has
engaged
in
an
ambitious
effort
to
identify
and
classify
our
historic
resources.
A
historic
resource
inventory.
B
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
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.
C
The
Pentagon
was
built
19
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
far
greater
than
anywhere
else
in
the
country
solely
for
government
workers
and
in
arlington
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
they
are
all
brick
and
slate
roofs.
These
buildings,
though
they
are
built
from
the
40s.
C
You
can
look
at
them,
there's
not
a
fissure
in
the
stonework.
They
are
as
strong
as
ever.
We
are
just
absolutely
exquisite
and
the
interior
spaces,
while
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
rocker
bees.
I'm
talking
about
secretaries
bean
counters,
the
guys
had
the
girls
who
lurk
in
the
pools
of
the
government.
This
is
their
home,
so.
C
C
Needed
to
be
not
not
alter,
or
if
there
had
been
changes,
the
changes
did
not
change
the
content,
the
context
of
the
architecture.
Secondly,
if
it
were
designed
by
let's
say
mere
harmless
Roby
and
one
of
the
great
architects
of
Arlington
mm-hmm,
that
would
get
to
a
point
if
the
complexes
were
still
on
hold.
That
would
give
you
a
point.
There
were
a
couple
of
added
features.
This
is
the
first,
the
biggest
the
largest.
C
So
we've
seen
the
residential
building,
so
this
is
the
commercial
buildings
of
the
essential
group,
and
this
is
Clarendon
and
clarity
was
planted
in
1900
and
started
development
from
the
teens
to
about
the
30s.
And
what
you
have
across
the
street
are
the
buildings
that
were
built
in
this
time
period,
where
you
have
Masonic,
building
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.
B
C
Essential
well,
the
buildings
have
not
changed
architecture,
as
you
see
them.
While
they
have
new
uses,
they
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
architecture
with
history
and
heritage,
so.
C
At
all,
not
at
all
they
did.
This
is
not
to
try
to
create
a
historic
village
where
we
have
costumes.
This
is
a
vibrant,
ongoing
community.
The
thing
about
preservation
in
origin
is
very
pragmatically
based.
We
try
to
save
buildings.
Try
to
preserve
buildings,
try
to
encourage
stewardship,
so
that
there's
a
passage
through
time
in
our
community,
where
you
see
buildings
of
different
time,
different
period
different
ages.
So.
C
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
an
essential
building,
it's
a
building
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
up
front.
These
buildings
are
important.
We
don't
want
developers
to
spend
money
on
plans
and
attorney
fees
only
do
find
out
at
the
very
end
that
these
buildings
are
valuable.
C
C
B
Let's
take
a
look
at
some
other
okay,
the
urgency
behind
this
project
is
clear.
Since
the
survey
began
fully,
one
quarter
of
the
four
hundred
properties
michael
looked
at
have
been
demolished.
The
time
we
have
to
look
around
and
choose
what
we
value
of
our
past.
What
we
wish
to
take
with
us
into
the
future
is
rapidly
disappearing
and.