Nomination Form
The original portion of the William Virts House was constructed circa 1798 by Virts, who immigrated with his family from Pennsylvania into western Loudoun County. This was part of a settlement pattern that saw the arrival of British Quakers, German Lutherans, German Lutherans, and Scots Irish Presbyterians into the Catoctin Creek watershed. He later expanded the house to two-and-a-half stories around 1813 and remodeled it in the Federal style. A two-story wooden porch was added to the south side of the house in 1930, and a one-story brick addition was built to the west in 1999. The property also includes a circa 1813 stone springhouse and circa 1840 frame shed on a stone foundation.
Many properties listed in the registers are private dwellings and are not open to the public, however many are visible from the public right-of-way. Please be respectful of owner privacy.
Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Programs
DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
