Massey, the first County Executive, who served from 1952 to 1971. A
separate building was erected nearby for the County Police Department,
and plans were made for other buildings in the future.[124]

[Illustration: Rear view of the Fairfax County courthouse complex.
Photo by the Office of Public Affairs, about 1972.]

[Illustration: View of the Fairfax County Courthouse, the Massey
Building, and downtown Fairfax. Photo by Bernie Boston, 1976.]

Overshadowing the old courthouse tract, the new center of government
nevertheless preserves the evidence of the past by continuing use of
the original (north) section of the courthouse building and its 1953
addition, all in an architectural style reminiscent of the colonial
period in Virginia. The presence of the past combine with a sense of
the present and the future to make the Fairfax County Courthouse both
a symbol and a functioning seat of a county government which in the
year 1976 had been in existence for more than two centuries.

NOTES FOR CHAPTER VI

[113] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, _Industrial and Historical
Sketch of Fairfax County, Virginia_, (Fairfax: County Board of
Supervisors, 1907), p. 5.

[114] Allen W. Moger, "The Rebuilding of the Old Dominion,"
(Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1940), pp.
95-96.

[115] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, _Industrial and Historical
Sketch_, pp. 5-6.

[116] The campaign to improve Virginia's roads had been waged since
the 1890's. See, for example, the rhetoric and argument in favor of
road improvements set forth in the _Programme of the Virginia Good
Roads Convention_, (Roanoke: Stone Printing, Co., 1894) held in
Richmond in October 1894. As to the effects of the rise of automotive
travel, see Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, _Historic, Progressive
Fairfax County in Old Virginia_, (Alexandria: Newell-Cole, 1928), pp.
20-21, containing a road map of the county's hard-surfaced roads and
unimproved roads in 1928.

[117] Porter, _County Government_, p. 291.

[118] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, _Annual Report, 1969_, p.
6.

[119] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Minute Book, v. 5, 318,
William Deming was the architect of this project. As with previous
expansions of the clerk's office, the old building was torn down and
the bricks re-used in the new building.

[120] Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Minute Book, v. 5, 318; v.
9 (1939-40), 501; v. 10 (1941-42), 175;