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City moves forward on Idlewild outbuildings rehabilitation; ARB approves conceptual treatment
Summary
The ARB approved conceptual designs to stabilize and rehabilitate three outbuildings at the Idlewild (Downman House) property, favoring a mixed approach that combines repaired historic fabric with new steel 'ghost' structures for collapsed elements to support interpretation.
The Fredericksburg Architectural Review Board approved conceptual plans to stabilize and rehabilitate three outbuildings at the Idlewild (Downman House) property, a city‑owned historic site listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Planning staff presented options prepared by preservation architecture firm MTFA and recommended a preferred approach that combines repair of extant historic fabric with new, deliberately modern steel framing in severely deteriorated locations. Kate Schwartz told the board the treatments were chosen to protect remaining historic masonry and to…
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