{"id":14790,"date":"2022-12-19T04:18:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/?page_id=14790"},"modified":"2024-03-24T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:35:28","slug":"building-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/building-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Building History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16771\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-420x421.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower-768x770.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Stories of Preservation and Progress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This presentation by Rev. Charlotte Lehmann of BRUU and Rev. Milton Rogers of <a href=\"https:\/\/umcgrace.org\/\">Grace United Methodist<\/a> is about the church building, designed by Albert Speiden, that has been in continuous use as a church since its construction in the 1920&#8217;s. The video recording of the presentation from Dec 11, 2022. It was featured as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manassasva.gov\/things_to_do\/manassas_museum\/events.php\">Manassas Museum<\/a> programming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stories-of-Pres-Prog-December-11-Flyer-REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stories of Preservation Flyer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background, see <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/building-history-2\/\">Our Building at the Corner of Church and Main Streets<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/780475730?h=758062a432&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Change is constant, as reflected by development of the lot across Main Street from BRUU.\u00a0 It was a farm field in July 1861, when Confederate forces won the Battle of Manassas nearby.\u00a0 They then established a base at Centreville.\u00a0 Food, hay, and ammunition was brought by railroad to the junction of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and the Manassas Gap Railroad.\u00a0 Wagons struggled to carry the supplies to Centreville, so the Confederates built a six-mile military railroad from the junction across Bull Run.\u00a0 That innovative railroad operated only briefly in February-March 1862.\u00a0 Trains passed south of the current BRUU building, which was constructed 65 years later.<\/p>\n<p>The Prince William Hotel was constructed in 1912, and replaced by the Pitts Theater (with a segregated balcony) in 1935.\u00a0 The theater was torched in 1950 by a projectionist who stole a Shirley Temple film and set the fire to cover up the crime.<\/p>\n<p>The Jackson Hotel replaced the Pitts Theater.\u00a0 It was replaced in the 1960&#8217;s by the Manassas Downtowner, renamed the Olde Towne Inn in 1973.\u00a0 The coffee shop there had a corner known as the Roundtable, where the movers and shakers in Prince William County gathered daily to network.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Towne Inn survived a fire in 1994.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/local\/1994\/02\/03\/the-embers-of-an-era\/efdcdba1-dda1-4e05-be22-c3f29ed96e38\/\">As reported<\/a> in the Washington Post, the fire received national coverage because the media had congregated in Manassas to cover the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1994\/01\/22\/us\/lorena-bobbitt-acquitted-in-mutilation-of-husband.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE0.PgPA.sgW56CzlJUsT&amp;smid=url-share\">Bobbitt trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the City of Manassas purchased the parcel and tore down the motel.\u00a0 Look for the city to sell the parcel so a new motel can be constructed there in the future, with perhaps three stories facing BRUU and five stories set back from the street.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pittstheater.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pittstheater.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pittstheater.png 800w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pittstheater-420x312.png 420w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pittstheater-768x570.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/centrevillerr-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/centrevillerr-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/centrevillerr-2.png 828w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/centrevillerr-2-420x365.png 420w, https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/centrevillerr-2-768x667.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruu.org\/www2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/tower.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Stories of Preservation and Progress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This presentation by Rev. 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