The Fairfax County Park Authority has extended, to Aug. 24, the deadline for local residents interested in becoming resident-curator of the Ash Grove property in Vienna.
Ash Grove is a stately Federal-style, 2.5-story, center-hall house that is one of the few standing 18th-century Virginia houses built for the Fairfax family. Thomas Fairfax built the original part of the house in 1790 and the family lived there through 1847.
The house, which has about 4,200 square feet of finished space, is located at 8881 Ashgrove House Lane on the edge of Tysons, about two-thirds of a mile from the Spring Hill Metro station.
The Park Authority’s resident-curator program offers long-term lease agreements to qualified tenants in public-park settings. The curator leases are without charge, but require a financial commitment and approved rehabilitation of the Park Authority’s underutilized historic properties.
Complete application forms and additional information about the properties are available at the Resident Curator Program at fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/rcp.
