Restoration In Progress · Leesburg, Virginia
The Whitmore Properties
A new restoration is already taking shape — another story written in wood and stone, another promise kept to the past.
The Whitmore Family
The Quiet Couple
Elias and Mary Whitmore — a schoolteacher and a postmaster, known in town as the quiet couple who kept to themselves. Their home is the newest preservation initiative for Sharon Virts and Scott Miller.
Where Selma was a senator's mansion and the Eliza House was a widow's fight, the Whitmore properties carry a different kind of story — one of ordinary lives lived with quiet dignity. Preservation is not only for the grand and the famous. It is for the schoolteacher's chalk rail, the postmaster's desk, and the everyday rooms where the real texture of a community was woven.
Full details of the restoration — the history, the craftsmanship, and the story behind the project — will be shared here as the work unfolds.
The Restoration Begins
Early glimpses of the house and its interior as the work gets underway.
The rear elevation — sage-green siding meets exposed historic brick, with the original chimneys rising above the standing-seam roof.
The staircase hall — original wood frame, exposed brick, and light from an upper landing.
An original wood-panel door set within the exposed brick walls — the bones of the house, still standing and still working.
A central brick chimney breast stands in the middle of the room — the bones of the house revealed.
"Preservation is not only for the grand and the famous. It is for the everyday rooms where the real texture of a community was woven."
Wood · Stone · Story
Many Houses, One Living Story
From Selma to the Eliza House to the Whitmore properties, each property carries a piece of Loudoun County's history forward — restored with the same care, craftsmanship, and commitment to keeping the past alive.
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