What is this money building on Bennett Road near the corner of West Ox Road in Oakton, rickies? It has no windows but has a big chimney-looking thing and a hurting crumbling concrete driveway/parking lot for yer boyz. It also has tennis courts. I saw one of the doors open once but coudn't make out what's inside, it was such a show. It also has an unused flagpole.

Thanks ricky for helping solve this hurting mystery.

Borgata, Borgata, Borgata. Money.
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What's a ricky? Does Borgata taste like Bologna? Perhaps with this information at our fingertips, we could solve the Mystery of Bennett Road. BRB, getting the Mystery Machine fired up...

12504 BENNETT RD Herndon va
Old Fire & Rescue Station.

According to Google it is now used by the Chantilly Youth Association in Herndon.

http://icare.fairfaxcounty.gov/Forms/Datalets.aspx?mode=profileall&taxyear=2011&ownseq=1&roll=REAL&jur=000&sIndex=3&idx=1&pin=&card=1&item=1&State=1&items=-1

Interesting. I just pulled the property records and it's owned by the Board of Supervisors now, which usually means they're going to make it a historic landmark or something.

Full property info from icare.fairfaxcounty.gov follows:

Owner
Name BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FAIRFAX COUNTY,
Mailing Address 12000 GOVERNMENT CENTER PW SUITE 533 FAIRFAX VA 22035
Book 06278
Page 1569

Parcel
Property Location 12504 BENNETT RD
Map # 0354 01 0037A
Tax District 90000
District Name SULLY
Land Use Code Fire & Rescue Stations
Land Area (acreage) 1.2027
Land Area (SQFT)
Zoning Description R-1(Residential 1 DU/AC)
Utilities WATER CONNECTED
SEWER NOT AVAILABLE
GAS NOT AVAILABLE
County Historic Overlay District NO


Street/Road PAVED
Site Description BUILDABLE-AVERAGE LOT

Legal Description
Legal Description NAVY FIRE HOUSE

Sales History
Date Amount Seller Buyer
12/09/1985 $0 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Primary Building
Building Use Fire House
Style 1 Story
Exterior Wall Material Half Block/Half Brick
Roof
Basement NONE
Basement Rec Room Size (sq.ft)
Basement Type
Dormers
Year Built 1965
Effective Year Built
Year Addition
Year House Remodeled
Model Name FIRE HOUSE
Bedrooms
Full Baths
Half Baths
Number of Fireplaces
# Basement Bedrooms/Dens
Heating None
Construction Quality
Physical Condition Average

Structure Size
Above Grade Living Area Total Sq. Ft 4,620
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It's use to be the Vale Volunteer Fire Dept building. The fire department has since been moved down by Fox Mill Shopping Center in Reston off the Reston Parkway.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2010 08:21PM by Lurker..

why is the legal description NAVY FIRE HOUSE

SomeGuy is right. It is currently used as a storage facility for baseball and football equipment for CYA. Among members of the Association it is colloquially known as "the shed."

WOW!!
Thanks rickies!!
I guessed an old hurting school building, but the flagpole and chimney thing really does say "old hurting fire department."

The tennis courts are used regularly. To think this was a firefighters' money metal house!

This is so money. Borgata.

It was the old Navy Vale firehouse but it moved to the Fair Oaks area and became Fair Oaks Volunteer firehouse #421. #431 at Fox Mill Road and Reston Parkway had/has nothing to do with the old Navy Vale firehouse.

Why is this area called "Navy" anyway?

Zero Wrote:
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> It was the old Navy Vale firehouse but it moved to
> the Fair Oaks area and became Fair Oaks Volunteer
> firehouse #421. #431 at Fox Mill Road and Reston
> Parkway had/has nothing to do with the old Navy
> Vale firehouse.

That sounds better. Thanks for the correction.

ex CYAer Wrote:
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> SomeGuy is right. It is currently used as a
> storage facility for baseball and football
> equipment for CYA. Among members of the
> Association it is colloquially known as "the
> shed."

What does CYA stand for?

Chantilly Youth Association

I was a volunteer fireman at this fire house on Bennett Rd. I actually lived there for 2 years. It was Fx. Co. Fire Department Station #21 and called the "Navy-Vale Volunteer Department" Navy is/was a small town located off West Ox. Rd. near the fire house, and Vale was another small town near Foxmill Rd. and Vale Rd. I have alot of very found and tragic memories of when I was there 76-80.

We are looking at a house on Betsy Lane off of Bennett just past this old firehouse. Betsy Lane is adjacent to a local park, Garchayne Park, but I can't find anything about the park, what facilities it has, or even where the entrance is (I just see it on Google Maps). Does anyone know? And is there a chance that a parcel like this might be developed at some point down the road? Thanks!

What a bunch of donks

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This is an old post but I was a volunteer at the station back in 1981. It's designation was station 21 and was moved to route 50 (not Reston) around 1989 or there abouts.
It's correct name was the Navy Vale Volunteer Fire Department.
If you Google navy vale volunteer fire department you will find a few items including a YouTube video of mine which was a training session from 1981 titled 1981 Extrication Training, Navy Vale VFD

Frank Harrell Wrote:
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> This is an old post but I was a volunteer at the
> station back in 1981. It's designation was station
> 21 and was moved to route 50 (not Reston) around
> 1989 or there abouts.
> It's correct name was the Navy Vale Volunteer Fire
> Department.
> If you Google navy vale volunteer fire department
> you will find a few items including a YouTube
> video of mine which was a training session from
> 1981 titled 1981 Extrication Training, Navy Vale
> VFD

Or you could post links to said items instead of expecting everyone to go google it.

Don't trust the links on FFXU... I would prefer to do to work.

Ah, that's the old Arthur Treacher's over off West Ox Rd. It closed down in the 90's, I think. Right around the time Penguin Feather and the Burger Chef closed down over in Annandale.

Hi Steve, I was there at the same time. Love to hear form you. jefffreyhgreen@gmail.com

All I know is we use to jump cars on the hump of Bennet road. We could get airborne for about 10 feet.

What's that thing with the solar panel on that hump? Also, why is the road so wide there for no apparent reason?