Historic Properties in Loudoun County's Goose Creek Historic District

The Orthodox Meetinghouse Reduced! $895,000 Built in 1820, this beautiful home was originally  the "Orthodox Meeting House", before Quakers built the current Goose Creek Meeting just down the road in 1866.  Late Historian, Asa Moore Janney, said  the hard part was persuading the horses, who were familiar with going to the other meeting and did not want to continue up the hill to the new meeting in inclement weather.   The stone addition in the rear of the original building was a "First-Day School".  Friends entered through the main front hallways doors, which are original to the building.   Adults and kids were separated by a huge partition which was lowered from the ceiling, then two stories high.  The pulley wheels which lowered this partition can still be found in the attic, and there is a lantern hook in the ceiling of the Master Bedroom which held the lantern for  the children's room.  In the upstairs central hallway can be seen the original plaster molding which surrounded a large chandelier which lighted the main meeting room.  The building later served for a time as a local high school, until finally being converted to a two-story residence in the late 1950's.4 BR, 2 1/2 BA  0 .53 acres Contact: Armfield, Miller & Ripley Fine Properties LLC Office: (540)687-6395