It’s been a rough week for the Old Ashburn area along Ashburn Road. Three landmark buildings were torn down as part of a new residential project going up on the land. It’s called Weller’s Corner and will reportedly include single-family homes, townhomes and a small commercial space.
Perhaps the most noteworthy loss this week was today’s razing of the former Weller Tile & Mosaic building. According to our friends at the Ashburn Village Neighbors Facebook page, it was originally the Norman & Harding’s Feed Store, built in 1871. Later, it was the home of Weller Tile, a long time landmark business in the once tiny hamlet of Ashburn. They captured these images of the building coming down.
https://www.facebook.com/176335472380599/videos/663346750974600
Earlier this week, two small homes on the land also came down. One was built around 1890, the other around 1920. As one person on social media said, “And slowly old Ashburn fades away…”
We can only hope that the new homes will have some design and character
So many memories in our big house that has just been wiped away because of MONEY HUNGRY INVESTORS. Old Ashburn was the sweetest little town to grow up in. The families were all close and had respect for one another. It was a little town that you could walk the streets and didn’t have to worry about crime back in the younger days. Growing up there was a treasure. And now because MONEY rules everything, it continues to be destroyed. Because you have taken away my home I grew up in, I have seen my last days in Ashburn. Way to sad to return to something that isn’t there anymore and that is the “real town of Ashburn”.
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Too bad Ashburn nor Loudoun County have an active, effective historical preservation commission. 130 years of history lost.
Mr. Weller was credited as the individual who personally built the original Broad Run High School football field. Given his level of personal volunteerism I would bet he would be quite displeased that now the school board charges students an activity fee to even participate in sports.
Where are the Board of Supervisors in all of this? To late to save these places but I certainly hope they will put something in there that reflects the history of Old Ashburn. Hopefully there was some thought and creativity put in as to what will be put there in its place. Progress is progress but tearing down history as if it never existed there is an abomination.
ah yes, more cookie cutter overpriced houses and townhouses, while any building with character is torn down. Makes me wonder how much longer the other older homes and businesses in that area are forced to close and are torn down in the name of progress. While I understand that that old unsafe buildings need to be torn down, the cookie cutter replacements don’t do anything to enhance Ashburn.
Half million dollar town houses built on a speck of land. Bet none will have solar panels. Climate change isn’t a problem anymore.
I live close by in a historic house in old town Ashburn and can see this trash from my window. Very sad. I did not grow up here but I would be distraught if I had, simply because there is no memory or history here. There is no cultural identity left to this area. It’s all vinyl boxes, strip malls, and breweries. The tiny towns that dotted Northern VA are vanishing.
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