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Sale Closes Museum at Robert E. Lee's Alexandria, Va., Boyhood Home.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

| March 12, 2000 | Bradley, Paul | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Mar. 8--ALEXANDRIA, Va.--Robert E. Lee's historic boyhood home, among Old Town Alexandria's most popular tourist attractions, has closed its doors after the foundation that operated the house as a museum sold it to a local couple who plan to move in and live there.

The Charlottesville-based Lee-Jackson Foundation announced the sale of the 4,500-square-foot, three-story brick house to Mark and Ann Kington of Alexandria on Friday. The museum closed the same day. The purchase price was undisclosed, but city assessors have valued the property at $1.1 million.

The sale has dismayed members of the city's historic community, who were kept in the dark about…

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