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in their search for a country home. “Distance brought us out here,” Sandra said.
Her family had a lake house in New Hampshire while she was a child, a 12hour trip Trom home, and so she was accustomed to long drives. “We knew it would have to be at least two hours from Washington,” she said.
By chance one Sunday she happened to notice a little two-line ad in the classified real estate listings. It read. “Lg house. Rappahannock County” with a phone number. Sandra called the number and reached Dorothy Davis to inquire about the log house.
“It’s not a log house, honey, it's a laaarge house,” Sandra said Mrs. Davis replied, imitating a thick southern accent.
She couldn't find out just how large over the telephone because Mrs. Davis insisted it depended on how the rooms were counted so the Cartwright-Browns drove out to Rappahannock.
Lovingly Renovated
The old house on Route 707 was a far cry from a country inn when Sandra first saw it. “It was a slum. It had been empty for three years," she said, shaking her head at the memory.
Sandra and Norman bought the place in November, 1979, and spent ve next spring and summer attacking the honeysuckle, weeds and trash in the yard and repairing damage to the interior resulting from years of neglect.
“I was finishing the floors by hand one day. It's such tedious work—my brain was. in neutral. The thought came to me to have a bed and breakfast country inn,” Sandra recalled.
Fate had sent her husband to Nigeria on business. “He wasn’t here to say no so I got started immediately. We’ve really concentrated on the place since April.”
The object of their efforts was to restore rather than remodel, preserving the old timey flavor of the historic home. Part of the original
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