nment Printing Office, 1920),
pp. 16-17.

[65] John Mosby Beattie, August 22, 1968, interview. Mr. Beattie does
not recall the date of this fire, but remembers the event
vividly from his boyhood days.

[66] Mosby served as Consul in Hong Kong from 1878 to 1885. He was an
attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1904 to 1910.

[67] _Official Register of Officers and Employees of the Civil,
Military and Navy Service_, issued biennially, lists Fountain
Beattie as an employee of the Internal Revenue Service in the
registers issued during the years 1875 to 1913, inclusive.
Beattie's Service Record Card (Treasury Form 426) shows the
first employment record date as 1872. His appointment was
discontinued in 1914.

[68] E. L. Templeman, _Arlington Heritage_ (Arlington, 1959), p. 74.

[69] _Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington_, 1879.

[70] "Fairfax County as Portrayed by the Virginia Business Directory
and Gazetteer--1906. Published by the Hill Directory Company,
Richmond, Virginia," _Yearbook of the Historical Society of
Fairfax County, Virginia_, v. 10 (1969), pp. 92-104.

[Illustration: Front View]

[Illustration: Side View (West). Figure 7. Green Spring Farm, 1936.
Photos by Delos Smith, HABS.]

[Illustration: Figure 8. Berry Survey Map, 1941. Deed Book P-15, p. 147.]

III. THE END OF THE FARMING ERA: MICHAEL STRAIGHT (1942-1969)

Fountain Beattie sold Green Spring Farm in 1917. Annie Hathaway
Beattie had died the year before, after they had moved from the farm
to a house in Alexandria.[71] Beattie's deed to George R. Sims of
Florida is dated January 23, 1917, and conveyed the entire tract of
339 acres.[72] Ownership changed again in 1922, 1924, and 1931,[73]
and ultimately led to the subdivision of the tract into smaller
parcels. In 1942, one of these parcels, containing the farmhouse and
the principal related buildings, was purchased by Michael and Belinda
Straight.[74]

The Straights did not occupy the main farmhouse immediately but set
about having certain changes made in the interior design and
structure. These were completed late in 1942, and the family moved
from the cottage to the main house.[75] A few months later, in January
1943, their occupancy was interrupted as Michael Straight was called
to service in the U.S. Army Air Force; and, during World War II, the
house