
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 17, 1990                   TAG: 9007170318
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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LOCKWOOD

LOCKWOOD, built in the early 1800s, is a Hanover County farmhouse where Robert E. Lee spent four days in 1864 recuperating from illness. Lockwood also is on land purchased by the Richmond newspapers for a new production plant, though not on the site of the plant itself.

But despite his family's longtime support of historic preservation, publisher J. Stewart Bryan III can find no use for the house.

Bryan has agreed to help a Richmond couple dismantle the house and move it to a site 12 miles away. That's better than losing the structure altogether. But it still would diminish the structure's integrity, and is a lot worse than keeping it where it is. Preservationists, believing there's plenty of room on the property for both the new plant and the old house, are rightly distressed.

Those who accept ownership of transplanted buildings - the Explore Project, for one Roanoke example - sometimes get the blame. The real problem is with those who set the move-it-or-lose-it terms in the first place.

by CNB