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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
After listening for more than an hour to testimony both for and against the addition of a wing to the historic Meadows home in Washington, the town’s Architectural Review Board tabled the application pending the submission of a revised plan.
The project’s architect, Julian Kulski of Orlean, told the board during its special meeting April 4 that he designed the new wing of the building, “to detract least from the architectural quality of the present building - and possibly to enhance it."
The Meadows, located on the west side of Main Street across from its intersection with Mt. Salem Ave,, is one of the oldest buildings in the town. It was originally constructed as a two-room log cabin before the Revolutionary War, and likely was seen by George Washington when he surveyed the town in 1749.
Later, a second floor was added and after that a large, Greek Revival wing was constructed to the south of the original structure. When built the two parts shared no common doorways, however they are now connected.
Mr. Kulski told the ARB members that the interior of the house as it now stands is, “helterskelter,” with a large basement but no kitchen, and bedrooms stuck into existing rooms. The house has no real living room, substituting instead a 19th Century type parlor. The arrangement, he said, “compro
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