Author: Georgia

Saving a house, and a memory Photo slideshow

Saving a house, and a memory Photo slideshow

This article describes our restoration of the farmhouse at East Lynn that was once home to Bushrod Washington Lynn, a 19th-century Virginia reformer.

Restoring homestead and history

Restoring homestead and history

By the time Georgia Ravitz saw the old farmhouse, everyone else had given up on it. The nearly collapsed brick edifice, on a pretty shoulder of the Piedmont in Loudoun County, had been slated for demolition by a developer, condemned by the county, and nearly consumed by a mountain of vines and brambles.