A House Too Far Gone?

"Prescott House" sounds like a place one needs a membership to get into rather than a hard hat and a signed waiver of liability. Yet there it stands, well it sort of stands, on the corner of Prescott and Quarry, taped off like a crime scene; reminding us all that Halloween is just eight months away.

For some a victim of owner neglect and community indifference; for others an eyesore, a dump operating without a permit, another Manassas all you can eat buffet - for termites.

This past Monday the Manassas City Council took up the issue of the fate of Prescott House. It split right down the middle— the council, not the house. Steve (What century is this?) Randolph, Andy (Look I found a Checkbook!) Harrover, and Sheryl (I'm Still Here?) Bass voted to prop up the old place with $88K of your money. Mark (I can think of a better charity) Wolfe, Marc (I can't think of any charity) Aveni, Jon (Since I can think) Way voted to give the owners one last chance to save the building with their own money or make official what mother nature and time have already done - condemn it, and let the bulldozers have the last word on Prescott House.

With the council thus divided, the deciding vote on the fate of Prescott House will rest with the Mayor, two weeks hence, when we shall discover if a house dividing a council shall stand or is destined to Parrish from the face of Prescott and Quarry.