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By LOU HATTER
BaMMhamwcfc Nm SUIT Writer
A proposal from the Rappahannock County Courthouse restoration committee to install two lanterns at the front of the county courthouse in Washington was approved by the town’s Architectural Review Board at its regular monthly meeting Feb.
Acting as the renovation committee’s agent, Evelyn Willis appeared before the ARB to explain the committee’s application for a Certificate of Appropriateness. Mrs. Willis, who is also a member of the ARB, disqualified herself from consideration of the committee’s application.
The board’s remaining two members, Carol Miller and Jim Thomasson, reviewed the application for two reproduction Colonial Bedford wall-bracket brass lanterns, one to be installed on each side of the courthouse’s front door. Mrs. Willis told the board each would be approximately 40 inches tall, with a globe about two feet high.
She requested that the committee be given some flexibility as to the exact size of the fixtures, since the Connecticut craftsman who is designing the lanterns apparently is concerned that if they are too large they may be damaged by strong winds.
“It’s an appropriate fixture in terms of style,” Mr. Thomasson said. “My concern is that they not be too small.”
“The front of the building is massive,” agreed Mrs. Miller. “You need to keep them big because of the size of the building.”
Mrs. Miller also asked if the lanterns would be equipped with an automatic device to turn them on at dusk. "It would be nice to drive by and see the lights lit - it adds to the front of the building.”
“The supervisors want that,” Mrs. Willis replied. “It will be done with a timer, if the Historical Society will agree.”
Mr. Thomasson moved that the application be approved, “subject to a final design determining the size of the lanterns.”
Mrs. Miller concurred, and the application was approved unanimously.
Following the board’s approval of the committee’s apphcav: tip^,I(Mrsc. .Will&ftrain took her spat as aipcmber (jfthe.ARB. .
GoIdsijyJtn Christopher Gpodine, who operates ashop on Main Street across from the Clopton House, appeared before the ARB to seek approval for a sign, now hanging above the front door of his shop.
“It’s a nice sign, appropriate to colonial America,” Mr. Thomasson commented. In addition to Mr. Goodine’s name, the sign also bears the symbol of his craft, which was a common practice in the colonial period.
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