FAIRFAX COUNTY INVENTORY OF HISTORIC SITES INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY NOMINATION FORM To be considered for listing on the Fairfax County Inventory of Historic Sites by the Fairfax County History Commission, a property must meet one or more of the following criteria: • Have significant character, interest, or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the County, State, or Nation; • Be the site of a significant historical event; • Be identified with a person or group of persons who influenced society; • Exemplify the cultural, economic, social, political, or historic heritage of the County or its communities; • Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of design or construction; • Represent the work of a master craftsman, architect, designer, or builder; • Possess high artistic values; • Represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; • Represent an established and familiar visual feature of the neighborhood, community or County due to its singular man-made or natural characteristics or features; or • Have yielded, or may be likely to yield, archaeological information important in history or prehistory. 1. HISTORIC NAME OF PROPERTY (if not known, use current name or address): Lamond House 2. STREET ADDRESS: 7509 Fort Hunt Road CITY: Alexandria STATE: VA ZIP CODE: 22307 3. FAIRFAX COUNTY TAX MAP REFERENCE NUMBER: 93-4 ((1)) 3 4. FAIRFAX COUNTY SUPERVISOR DISTRICT: Mount Vernon Supervisory District 5. LEGAL OWNER OF PROPERTY: Fairfax County Park Authority STREET ADDRESS: 12055 Government Center Parkway Suite 927 CITY: Fairfax STATE: VA ZIP CODE: 22035 DAYTIME PHONE: 703-534-3881 E-MAIL: [email protected] 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PROPERTY OWNER(S): Has the property owner(s) been informed that this application has been prepared and submitted for consideration? X Yes No 1 7. GENERAL DATA A. Type of property: brick dwelling and wooded land B. Date(s) of resource(s) and source: c.1940 C. Outbuildings: NA D. Approximate area or acreage: 17.9 acres E. Architect or Builder (if known): Malcolm Matheson F. Original Use: Dwelling G. Present Use: Fairfax County Park Authority Park 8. GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features, additions, and any alterations to the property. Description should also address building condition, setting, and any significant landscape features. Information should be submitted on typed, consecutively numbered 8 ½ ” x 11" sheets, as necessary. 9. HISTORY: Briefly note any significant events, personages and/or families associated with the property. Please note all sources of information. Information should be submitted on typed, consecutively numbered 8 ½ " x 11" sheets, as necessary. 10. PHOTOGRAPHS: Black and white or color exterior photographs that show the front and side elevations should be provided. Photographs of other buildings on the property and views of the general setting are also required. If available, black and white or color interior photographs may be provided. Photographs should be labeled on the reverse and should not be mounted or affixed in any way. 11. MAPS: A map showing the precise location of the property must be provided. A County Parcel Identification Map section is preferred. A sketch showing the location of the primary building and any outbuildings on the lot should also be provided. Please include a scale, a "North" arrow, and the names of major streets. 12. APPLICANT (the person who prepared this form): Cultural Resources Management and Protection Section STREET ADDRESS: 2855 Annandale Road CITY: Falls Church STATE: VA ZIP CODE: 22042 PHONE: 703-534-3881 E-MAIL: [email protected] APPLICANTS SIGNATURE: DATE: Please submit this application with accompanying materials and documentation to: Historic Preservation Planner, Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning 12055 Government Center Parkway, Suite 730 Fairfax, VA 22035 The Historic Preservation Planner will review the application and submit it to the History Commission, who will vote as to whether or not to add the property to the Inventory of Historic Sites. To request reasonable ADA accommodations, call the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning, 703-324-1380, TTY 711 (Virginia Relay). 2 8. GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features, additions, and any alterations to the property. Description should also address building condition, setting, and any significant landscape features. Information should be submitted on typed, consecutively numbered 8 ½ ” x 11" sheets, as necessary. The Lamond House is a circa 1940 brick Colonial Revival two-and-one-half-story, center passage, hipped roof house situated on top of a wooded ridge in Lamond Park. Lamond Park is approximately 3 miles south of the City of Alexandria located between Fort Hunt Road and the Potomac River. Lamond House is centered on the western portion of Lamond Park’s 17.9 acres (tax parcel # 93-4 ((1)) 3). The side-gable house faces east looking out over a lawn and gravel driveway. To the south of the house is formal garden and both the house and garden are surrounded by trees. The house is currently being used as a residential unit for the Resident Caretaker and in the future for private rentals. The park is surrounded by the single family home subdivisions of Villamay and Wellington Heights to the north, east, and south and Fort Hunt Road to the west. The park may be accessed by a steep winding gravel driveway off Fort Hunt Road that runs south of the house and then bends north and west to approach the front elevation of the house from the east. There is also pedestrian access on the northern border of the park at the end of Burtonwood Drive. The majority of the park is wooded and there is a creek running north/south near the eastern border. Not visible from the house due to a screen of trees is a playground just south of the Burtonwood Drive pedestrian access. A preliminary surface archaeological survey has been conducted for Lamond Park and has identified three components of archaeological Native American and historic significance that will require further study. The house is approached from the east by a gravel drive through a canopy of deciduous trees. The driveway splits as it bends to the north towards the attached two car garage. A short driveway spur turns south in front of the brick walkway crossing the front lawn to the central front door on the east elevation of the house. The house is regularly fenestrated, has a water table below the first floor windows, and brick dental frieze under the roof line. The windows have brick jack arches above them and the fanlights have brick round arches. The east (front) elevation of the brick house has a two-and-one-half-story five-bay central block with a one- story sunroom wing to the south and a one-and-one-half-story recessed garage wing to the north. The southernmost bay of the first floor is the one story sunroom with a single-light fixed-pane window under a fanlight. The flat roof of the sunroom is surrounded by a brick parapet perforated with red clay tile latticework above the window. The central five-bay block of the house has a brick enclosed entry porch capped with stone coping in the central bay. Five stone steps lead up to the central six-panel wood door capped with a fanlight and flanked on either side by wood pilasters. Above the fanlight is a brick and stone arch, a black metal lantern, and a rectangular stone plaque. The spacing between the two bays south of the door is larger and each bay has a twelve-over-twelve 3 double-hung window with three-panel green wood shutters. The two bays north of the door each have a six-over- nine double-hung window with two-panel green wood shutters. The second floor of the five-bay central block has a six-over-six double-hung window with green louvered shutters in each of the bays. The slate hipped roof above the five-bay central block is lower over the southern bay and there is a wide interior brick chimney. The roof steps up over the four northern bays and in the central bay there is four-over-four double-hung window in a front gable dormer with a pediment and is flanked on either side by lunette dormer windows with copper roofs. The one-and- one-half-story garage wing to the north is attached to the central block of the house by a one story enclosed colonnade with three brick arches filled with grey stucco. The central arch has a twelve-light-over-one-panel door with a fanlight above. The arches on either side each have a twelve-over-six single-hung round arch window. The northernmost bay is the garage and has no fenestration on the first floor. The garage has a hipped roof with a central six-light casement window in a shed roof dormer. The northern elevation is dominated by the extended garage wing. The first floor of the garage has two green ten-panel garage doors and the hipped roof has a central six-by-six casement window in a shed roof dormer. The recessed easternmost bay of the central block is a six-over-nine double-hung window with three-panel green wood shutters on the first floor and a six-over-six double hung window with green wood louvered shutters on the second floor. Hidden behind the roof of the garage in the westernmost bay on the second floor of the central block is a six-over-six double-hung window. The rear (west) elevation of the house is similar in form to the east elevation but has irregular fenestration and no window shutters. The garage is the northernmost portion of the house and has two four-light fixed-pane windows on the first floor.