Be here this evening with johnai farrell. Jack farrell to his friends. And he has written his third book, his first book was calledl clarence dar darrow, attorney for the dammed and the second book was tip oneill, and then he turned to Richmond Nixon Richard Nixon, the life. He. Pause hi is such a popular character. Because of that that trajectory i have to ask what made you turn to dick nixon . N i was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy, and i was struck as i did the research i that people like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson and would wright in the diaries and as watergate was collapsing around him they would say, this is really like classic greek tragedy, shakespearean scene of someone who has so many gifts, and yet this amazing tragic flaw which brought him down in quite a shakespearean manner. He was always whispering in his own ear, youre not good enough. They hate you. Theyre against me. And in the end it destroye
Mrs. Pratt had five of them. The largest collection outside of russia, more than the queen of england owns and she had them here in this house. Later on she donated them to the Virginia State museum. So today you could see them in one of the rooms down there. She predeceased mr. Pratt by a number of years. He lived here by himself up until 1975 when well into his 90s he died and at that point he gave the house to the National Park service. Realizing its historical importance. Thanks to the jens rossty of this man that we are able to show the house to you. I hope you enjoy it. If the you have any questions ask me and of course, we have a lot of interesting things going on on the front grounds today as well. So please take advantage of those as well. The gardens were on the front of the house. Entirely obliterated. If you look at pictures, we have one on the fireplace, of that side of the house during the war, youll see no garden. After the war was over in the 1920s they then moved the g
Proposal is well westbound the volume didnt include a penthouse and the vertical addition is setback 21 feet from the street and 15 from the existing building wall the department if feel that meet exceptional or extraordinary and not recommend you take dr pecks im available to answer any questions thank you. Great, thank you project sponsor. Im sorry, i apologize dr requester. My apologies. You have a 5 minute presentation. Thanks very much for hearing us i appreciate it i have 3 primary issues with this addition i wanted to show you overhead of the neighborhood and explain where we are i dont know if you can see that well, this is where we consider a key lot restricted on this right hand by the department of building inspection and the addition will block youll notice the front is over here and goes across this way the shadows reflective in the baked as opposed to this in the street it affects us in the back of the house we had all the open spaces so the proposed plan the extension of
Density well find a lot of properties not conforming with the units in rh1 and rh3 and so i think we have to look at the overarching of protecting Affordable Housing and in addition to the fact that the code priorities e provides a mechanism for legalizing those that is a code compliant option accident cod provides a mechanism to legalize those units thats what were trying to seek. I understand what youre saying im talking about singlefamily homes in rh1 neighborhood that are entirely rh1 and it seems to me i know the areas have cc rs those cc rs will take precedent over the citys ability to try to legalize units maintenance. The cc rs are private agreement and the city and enforce those that is a matter between the cc rs are holder this cod legalize the unit that is about having requiring someone to go through the cod process to legalize the unit. Why not a new zoning for the rh1 we feel would be appropriate to have additional united awhile certain areas lets see for example, rh1 deta
William fitzhugh it was headquarters during the civil war and a Field Hospital during the battle of fredericksburg where clara barton and walt whitman tended to the wounded. It is part of Fredericksburg National military park. You want a guided tour of the house . At least of the downstairs area . Like to welcome you to chatham. My name is don. Im the staff historian here. Youve never been here before . No. Ive been to chatham, new jersey. New jersey. Its a town, though. But they are named after the same person. Theyre both named after yeah, named after william pitt who was the earl of chatham who was a very popular figure because he was a member of parliament and one of the few who supported americas right to representation. And so he was a very popular man here in the colonies. And William Fitzhugh obviously liked him because hed name his house after him. Speaking of, thats him right there. Hes the man who built chatham. The house was constructed here between 1768 and 1771. It was no