Wilton House is featured in the Washington Post Home & Design Magazine on Sunday. Read the article here which outlines the efforts made and the obstacles faced to preserve this historic property.
The article begins:
Virginia, they say, is for lovers. It is also for old-house lovers, who dote on antique dwellings from the Eastern Shore to the Shenandoah Valley, and sometimes take great pains to do the right thing by history when updating these homes for 21st-century living.¶
One of those people is Washingtonian Stephen M. Foster, who spent more than two years renewing Wilton, a 1763 plantation manor in Middlesex County east of Richmond near Chesapeake Bay that, though remarkably intact, had decayed and faced demolition.
