Soldiers Home update 10/10

[from Reyn Anderson]

The Soldiers’ Home recently issued its Historic Preservation Plan. As many of you know, the Home has a long and rich history, among other things as the location where Abraham Lincoln spent at least a quarter of his presidency and likely drafted the Emancipation Proclamation. With plans to develop almost 170 acres of its 270 acre campus, the Home was required to develop a Historic Preservation Plan to address how to treat the many valuable assets – both land and buildings – that are part of its property. The Preservation Plan is now available online here.

I STRONGLY encourage the neighborhood to look at the plan, especially those sections concerning the land abutting the neighborhood, and provide comments to the Home. A comments form is located on the website at the same link provided here. I hope a hard copy version of the documents will be made available at Petworth Library and Park View Recreation Center very soon. Comments are due by November 17, 2006.

If you’d like more information or have any questions on what’s happening with the Home’s development or the Historic Preservation plan, feel free to call me (Reyn) at 726-5297 any time or e-mail me.