Efforts to save crumbling Washington Park cottage draw a step closer to reality with financial pledge from Roanoke council

Efforts to save crumbling Washington Park cottage draw a step closer to reality with financial pledge from Roanoke council

An advocacy group supporting Roanoke’s 19th-century Washington Park Caretaker’s Cottage has worked to raise about $20,000 to save the building, which has been falling further into disrepair for years.  The group now has almost eight times that amount of funding to move forward with plans for partial restoration of the property to turn it into an amphitheater — an idea that multiple people within the Friends of Washington Park Caretaker’s Cottage…