The city is spending $2,500 on a second try to get the Whitehurst/Buffington House on Virginia’s historic registry. That’s a critical step because it would allow the city-owned house to qualify for historic-restoration tax credits.
The city’s Historic Preservation Commission is recommending that the city sell or lease out the boarded-up house for commercial use in hopes that the new owners would renovate it. Other preservationists, though, want to turn the house into a museum that celebrates Princess Anne County’s history.
City Council will likely decide the house’s fate later this year.
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