A number of early outbuildings are still in use at Salona. Close to the house on the south is the outdoor brick kitchen, used by the Smoots as a "summer kitchen," now by the DuVals as a guest house. Diagonally opposite the east wing is a former brick smoke house now used for storage. Farther to the southeast is a board and batten corncrib. Some distance farther east are the ruins of a large bank barn, whose thick stone foundations testify to its former size and sturdiness. At the west end of the house, some distance away, is an old three-hole brick privy, once approached through a grape arbor. The DuVals have built a tennis court on a lower level of land on the east.[135] [Illustration: _The outside brick kitchen, now a guest house, Salona. Photo by the author, 1975._] [Illustration: _PRIVY_] [Illustration: _The old brick privy, Salona. Photo by the author, 1975._] [Illustration: _OLD KITCHEN OUT BUILDING_] Chapter VI Notes Salona: The House and Outbuildings [129] National Park Service and Fairfax County Park Authority. [130] Stated in Works Projects Administration, Writers' Program, _Virginia, a Guide to the Old Dominion_ (Oxford University Press, New York, 1941), p. 525. [131] Interviews between the author, Jane Wilson Smoot and William Smoot; _Alexandria Gazette_, November 11, 1811. [132] Interview with Clive and Susan DuVal. January 5, 1979. [133] Virginia Mutual Assurance Society records, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia. [134] Fairfax County, Virginia, Will Book Q-1, p. 241. Also see appendix. [135] Interviews with the DuVals and the Smoots. VII PRESERVATION BY EASEMENT Because it was a "wonderfully sound, nice and comfortable, gracious old house" with many pleasant and historical associations and memories, the DuVals felt that Salona should be permanently preserved.[136] In 1971, a permanent historic and scenic easement and a temporary easement were drawn up by the DuVals, and signed on behalf of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors by County Executive George Kelley.[137] (See appendix for full text of the document.) Both easements were designed to assist the county's efforts to protect and maintain "the scenic, historic, and recreational values of land within the County." It also fitted in with the county government's stated purpose to shape the character, direction and timing of community development through the preservation of open space land. The permanent easement was also given "to protect in perpetuity the mansion known as 'Salona.'" It provides that "The mansion house known as 'Salona' as such structure exists at the date of the execution of this instrument, shall not be razed, demolished, moved or relocated until such action is approved by the Board of County Supervisors acting upon the advice of the Architectural Review Board ... or until such structure becomes uninhabitable or demolished through fire, storm or similar natural calamity."