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

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.