orated keystone
arches are the distinguishing features of the Fairfax County
Courthouse in the 1970's as they were in 1800.

[Illustration: The central entrance to the 1954 addition to the
courthouse.]

NOTES--2. THE COURT HOUSE

[139] William O'Neal, _Architecture in Virginia_, (New York: Walker,
1968), p. 17, remarks that "Traditionally, in Virginia buildings
housing civil government have been developed beyond the utilitarian.
This tradition, of course, has given us not only a remarkable group of
eighteenth and nineteenth century courthouses, but, just yesterday,
the very beautiful City Hall complex of Norfolk by Vincent King."

[140] _University of Virginia Newsletter_, (Charlottesville: Institute
of Government, University of Virginia), XLIII, No. 11, (July 15,
1967).

[141] A summary of these references is contained in Melvin Steadman,
_Falls Church by Fence and Fireside_, (Falls Church, Va.: Falls Church
Public Library, 1964), pp. 463-520.

[142] O'Neal, _Virginia Architecture_, pp. 127, 133, 143, _Minutes of
the Vestry, Truro Parish, Virginia_, 1732-1785, (Lorton, Va.: Pohick
Church, 1974), p. 114.

[143] Steadman, _Falls Church_, p. 471.

[144] The genealogy and a summary history of the Wren family, both in
England and America, is in Steadman, _Falls Church_, pp. 463-520.

[145] Janice Artemel, "James Wren, Gentleman Joiner," (unpublished
manuscript, Falls Church, Va., 1976).

[146] According to Sir Banister Fletcher, _A History of Architecture_,
Rev. ed., (New York: Scribners, 1963), p. 1126, "In general, the
architecture of a particular area mirrored that of the homeland of the
colonizers or settlers of that area, with modifications occasioned by
climate, the types of building material obtainable, and the quality of
labour available. Thus, in seventeenth century New England building
followed the pattern of English weather-boarded heavy timber-frame
prototypes, while in eighteenth century Virginia we find a 'Georgian'
architecture often almost indistinguishable from that of eighteenth
century England."

[147] Carl Feiss, "Court Houses of Virginia," lecture delivered at the
meeting of the Latrobe (Washington) Chapter, Society of Architectural
Historians, held at the Arts Club of Washington, November 8, 1968.

[148] Marcus Whiffen, "The Early Courthouses of Virginia," _Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians_, XVIII, No. 1 (March 1959),
pp. 2, 5-6.

[149] Thus the term "market hall"