[sphinx]

You'd see a "park industry" in short order and it would be better maintained because they would have to compete for customers.

We'd have Steinwehr Avenue.

I live in DC. Northern Virginia's idea of historic preservation is a sign in a mall parking lot ... and that's only if someone else pays for the sign.

[muawiyah]

Northern Virginia's idea of historic preservation is MOUNT VERNON, etc. There's a lot of great river front where I could live but it's tied up in "historic preservation".

Several other colonial mansions are preserved, even a Frank Loyd Wright usonian house. Then there's Bull Run Park (which protects the flanks of the Manassas Battlefield).

Arlington National Cemetery is in northern Virginia, as are Fort Belvoir and Fort Myer, the Pentagon, National Airport's main concourse building, ............