Renovating Grandma's House
Granddaughter updates Belle Haven home with new space, old charm.
Landon Holden has happy memories of times spent in her grandmother’s Belle Haven home. The 1934 stone and cedar house on 6236 Radcliff Road “was the one constant in my life,” said Landon, who frequently visited her father, grandmother, aunts, and uncles there. After her grandmother died, Landon and her husband, Scott, both fifth-generation Alexandrians, decided to buy her grandmother’s house and make it their own. “It was always such a happy place for me, I thought I could recapture that feeling for my kids,” Landon noted. In 2010, the couple, who own Holden & Sons Development, General Contractors, hired McLean architect Thomas French to help them design an addition and renovation of the four-bedroom house. “I told Tom, ‘I don’t want to …
