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Don't Move Historic House
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Editor, Times-Dispatch: Move the White House of the Confederacy? Sure, and while we are at it, how about the State Capitol? It sits on a nice piece of open ground and would provide even more room for MCV-VCU to expand.
The White House is too valuable a piece of Richmond's and the nation's history to be cast aside for another faceless high-rise hospital building. VCU has been gradually squeezing out this historic icon; given a sense of community and place, the hospital could accommodate its needs while preserving the historic ambiance of the neighborhood.
I hope the General Assembly, which has a committee looking into the matter and, incidentally, which has some control over VCU's purse strings, will not permit such a desecration. Surely there is a solution that will answer the hospital's space needs while complementing and enhancing the White House of the Confederacy. George Patteson. richmond.