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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The neighborhood should try to get it declared a landmark...which would keep it a school.[/quote]

The only thing they could landmark is the old house. Someone could buy the property, build 30 new houses and restore the old house. It wouldn't need to be a school.[/quote]

The landmark would lIkely be the manor house and the view shed (lawn) from the street,  The rest of the property to the side and rear could be developed.[/quote]

So you would misuse historic preservation for your own self interest in preventing others from living in your neighborhood? I am not sure preservationists would support that.[/quote]

We are a Sidwell family.  I fail to see how land marking the main house is a "misuse" of historic preservation.  The county historic preservation office would look at any application on its own merits.  The main house on Sidwell's Wash campus is on the national register.  There aren't many examples of estate houses left in central Bethesda, so a landmark application may make sense.  It certainly wouldn't affect re-development of much of the site.[/quote]

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