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Article: Historic home left in limbo
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- Progress-Index, The Petersburg, Va.
- Article date:
- February 15, 2009
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PETERSBURG -- The "Petersburg Room" in the McIlwaine house is one
of the great rooms in this country with architectural features found
nowhere else, according to experts. The house is on the National
Register of Historic Places.
But few in the city have ever seen the room that sits in the
house above the city's visitor's center, and if the city sells the
building to a private owner even fewer might get the chance to see
the room, some argue.
Since 2006, the city has had plans to sell the house on Cockade
Alley across from the historic Farmer's Market.
City Council voted Jan. 20 to seek offers for the historic
McIlwaine House -- the basement of which has served as the city's
visitor's center ...