Norman and Harding Feed Store

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Norman and Harding Feed Store at 20719 Ashburn Road [DHR No. 053-0895] dates from 1871 was built for merchants Ernest Norman and Victor Harding. Store was last occupied by Weller Tile & Mosaics. The building has a long rectangular plan with a front-gable roof utilizing the narrow rectangular lot typical of urban lots. It is a freestanding building, three bays wide with a central entrance and a full-width hipped-roof porch. The six-over-six, double-hung-sash wood windows feature shallow-pitched triangular window heads with brackets. The two-leaf panel and glass doors have a three-light transom, in addition to a bracketed surround. The store is raised atop a random-rubble stone foundation, and the exterior walls are covered with board-and-batten siding. The roof was previously half-covered with standing-seam metal and half-covered with wood shingles. The standing-seam metal has since been removed, leaving only the original shingles. Located directly behind the feed store is a large, open-plan, two-story warehouse. This warehouse was once a center of Ashburn’s dairy operation in the 1950s. Farmers brought milk into the village to be collected onto a larger truck to be transported to Washington, D.C. The warehouse has a side-gable roof with four large loading doors on the primary elevation, facing south towards Ashburn Road. At the east gable end, there is a single smaller loading door, designed to load merchandise or produce on the second floor.

Ref: Ashburn Historic District 053-0013 at www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Loudoun/053-001...