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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
A company from Rappahannock County is re-making history.
Since the spring of 2005, Sperryville-based Mustard Seed Master Builders has been working on the rebirth of James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange County.
The fourth president’s estate is in the midst of a $23 million restoration that will return the mansion to the way it looked in the 1820s, and an eight-person team from Mustard Seed has been spearheading the carpentry work for the historic project.
Mustard Seed specializes in fine woodworking on vintage homes and buildings. Founder and director Scott McBride said most of his company’s work comes from Rappahannock weekenders who have purchased farms and estates in the county.
But McBride was invited to a slightly larger job site after he met Montpelier’s director of restoration, John Jeanes, while working on a house on Red Oak Mountain.
Jeanes said the Montpelier restoration team inherited a “sick house” and they were unsure if the project was even a possibility because the mansion had undergone so many changes since the duPont family bought it in 1901.
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