Owner of Prescott House Dies
Dorothy M. Feaganes, 84, was known for her passionate fight to save her historic home.
Dorothy M. Feaganes, the homeowner who fought for many years to keep the 107-year-old Manassas house she grew up in from being demolished by the city, has died. Manassas City Attorney Martin Crim told city council Monday that she died in mid-December, not long after a city council meeting where council members learned a "wealthy benefactor" had stepped forward and offered to pay for the repairs to the Victorian home at 9300 Prescott Ave., which has been the subject of ire and debate for many years. Feaganes was living in Alexandria until she died Dec. 21 at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, according to a Baker Post Funeral Home Obituary. She was 84. The Prescott House, as the home is often called, has passed to her heirs, a son and a daughter…
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