About the Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society
In 1985, its Centennial Year, the Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society comprises over 750 citizens and businesses dedicated to improving the quality of life in Falls Church.
The Society recognizes that it is the inheritor of the civic purposes and activities of the Village Improvement Society (VIS) of Falls Church established in 1885 and which group was modeled after the famous Laurel Hill Association of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and that VPIS’ purposes, objectives and activities represent a continuum of the earlier organized and volunteer civic organization and effort to improve and preserve the historic tradition, residential character, quality of life and appearance of Falls Church, Virginia.
The values articulated by the founders in 1885 have not changed to the present:
to preserve the historic and predominantly single family detached residential and village character of Falls Church; to preserve its historic structures and landmarks; to promote architectural harmony and aesthetic values; to beautify the community by planting trees, flowers, and shrubs; and to work with governmental bodies and community groups
to promote and fulfill these goals.
Archives of the Society may be found in the Virginia Room of the Mary Riley Styles Library, Falls Church, Virginia.