On Thursday, February 7th, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources will host a statutorily-required meeting. The meeting will be held at the Tonsler Park Center and the topic will be the pending nomination of the “Fifeville-Castle Hill” district to the National Register of Historic Places and Virginia Landmarks Register. The time is 6:30pm. The staff of the VDHR will explain the process of property nomination and the advantages of an historic or a landmark district listing, and will take comments from citizens. A report of these comments will made to the State Review Board (the body that recommends National Register listing) and the Board of Historic Resources (which actually lists historic properties on the Virginia register). How a property owner in the proposed district might vote against such listing will explained, too, and a notary public will be on hand to seal official objections to district listing by those property owners wishing to register them during the meeting. The nomination is to be taken up by the two Boards on March 20th. If approved that day by both, the district will immediately become an official landmark in Virginia and, if confirmed by the Department of Interior later, a nationally-recognized one.
Representatives of the City of Charlottesville, which has sponsored a documentary history of the district and fostered the nomination, will review the municipal government’s role.
