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By Kevin Seabrooke
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Washington Town Council received an update on a survey of the town’s historically significant buildings at its monthly meeting last Wednesday.
The $20,000 survey was approved by the council in July in response to questions over the validity of its existing Historic District Ordinance.
The study is being conducted by Cheryl H. Shepherd of Millennium Preservation Services in Warrenton, who is taking an inventory of existing historic structures and will determine which have the strongest chance of earning landmark status. She will also propose changes to the existing ordinance.
The vague nature of Washington’s ordinance, in which the entire town, but no single structure, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was brought to light by a dispute over what type of building materials are appropriate for use within the town. In Worley v. Town of Washington, Sid and Mary Catherine Worley seek to have the existing Historic District Ordinance declared invalid and unenforceable. Their lawsuit came about in response to the Town Council’s determination that the building materials for the Worley’s proposed home were incompatible writh other structures in the town.
“In 1975 the whole town was listed on the National Historic Registry and the Virginia Landmarks Registry, but no individual building
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