City Desk » strawberry banks inn http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:18:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 More Anthony Musolino Buildings http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/22/more-anthony-musolino-buildings/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/22/more-anthony-musolino-buildings/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:18:27 +0000 Andrew Beaujon http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27753 A few weeks ago I wrote about the death of Anthony F. Musolino, the architect who was best-known for the now-demolished Bob Peck Chevrolet building in Arlington. One of Musolino's 10 daughters, Mia Musolino, called me Monday and offered to send me some more photos of her dad's work. She also corrected an error in her dad's obit, which I parroted: the Strawberry Banks Inn, she says, is in Newport News, Va., not Hampton, Va. And she sent me a photo of it! Here are some more mid-century marvels from Anthony Musolino's drafting table:

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Golden Triangle Hotel, Norfolk, Va.

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Tennis court, private residence, Great Falls, Va.

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Mt. Vernon Shopping Center, Alexandria

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Bob Peck!

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Strawberry Banks Inn, Newport News, Va.

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Anthony F. Musolino, who designed the Bob Peck Chevrolet building (above, by Darrow Montgomery) as well as some lovely hotels and a spate of area high schools, died last week.

The Bob Peck building got torn down, to be replaced by this thing, which at least pays tribute to the dealership's iconic shape.

Some other Musolino buildings:

Langley High School, Great Falls

(photo by Patrickneil, via Wiki Commons)

Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax

The Golden Triangle Hotel in Norfolk, Va. (Now a Radisson)

I'm still looking for pictures of Fairfax High School (the 1972 building), the Strawberry Banks Inn in Hampton, Va., something called the Prosperity Center in Leesburg, Va., and the Leesburg Vo-Tech Center. If you have any, e-mail me and I'll add them to the gallery.

UPDATE 1615: Dave "Institutional Memory" McKenna IMs me to say that Fort Hunt High School, also designed by Anthony Musolino, was burned down in 1978 by three young men, one of whom was named Matthew Musolino. Weird, eh?

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