Mosby's home closed to visitors

[hoosier]

My wife and I are planning a vacation trip to Virginia and North Carolina. We were planning to visit James Madison's home, Montpelier, near Orange, VA, and I noted that on the way to Orange we would go right past Warrenton, where John Singleton Mosby's home stands.

I checked on the Internet and found several websites mentioning Mosby's home. The one that seemed most promising was www.mosbymuseum.org, so I went there to see if I could find information about the days and hours when the house would be open for visitation. However, the list of upcoming events on that website shows no events more recent than 2007.

I found that Mosby's home is located right next to the Warrenton-Fauquier County Visitors' Center, so I called the 800 number for the visitors' center and asked when Mosby's home would be open.

The nice lady at the visitors' center, Imogene, told me that, unfortunately, it isn't open, at least not for this year. They weren't been able to get anybody to staff the place.

Imogene said there is an exhibit about Mosby at the visitors' center and people who come to the visitors' center will be able to walk around the grounds and look at his home from the outside - but if you want to actually get inside, you're out of luck.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

They can't get anyone to staff the place due to budget constraints or because no one wants to staff it or no one is qualified to staff it??.....Not that it matters, but I just wonder.....Thanks!
Sorry you won't be able to see the inside....

 

[hoosier]

I didn't want to press Imogene for an explanation as to why they couldn't get anyone to staff the place. I'm sure it wasn't her fault.

 

[gary]

Too bad. Volunteers make museums and historical sites happen. Without them no nonprofit can operate without their donation of time and work. Generally it's retired people who have the time or the youth who take interest in the place.

 

[kholland]

My wife and I are planning a vacation trip to Virginia and North Carolina. We were planning to visit James Madison's home, Montpelier, near Orange, VA, and I noted that on the way to Orange we would go right past Warrenton, where John Singleton Mosby's home stands.

I checked on the Internet and found several websites mentioning Mosby's home. The one that seemed most promising was www.mosbymuseum.org, so I went there to see if I could find information about the days and hours when the house would be open for visitation. However, the list of upcoming events on that website shows no events more recent than 2007.

I found that Mosby's home is located right next to the Warrenton-Fauquier County Visitors' Center, so I called the 800 number for the visitors' center and asked when Mosby's home would be open.

The nice lady at the visitors' center, Imogene, told me that, unfortunately, it isn't open, at least not for this year. They weren't been able to get anybody to staff the place.

Imogene said there is an exhibit about Mosby at the visitors' center and people who come to the visitors' center will be able to walk around the grounds and look at his home from the outside - but if you want to actually get inside, you're out of luck.

If you are interested in Mosby here is a definitive site with links, photos and information on many towns and battles in Mosby`s Confederacy. I found it some years back and entered it in the links directory.

http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc5/mosby1.htm

 

[Old Bay]

No money to run the place. Even with volunteers there needs to be some sort of money to back it up. The town never really had a long term plan on what to do with the place after its initial opening. I think this is the latest article from the local paper, but it explains the situation fairly well.

http://www.fauquiernow.com/index.ph...king-suggestions-for-former-mosby-museum-2015

 

[Mike Serpa]

It seems they haven't decided. This from March 11, 2017.
http://www.fauquiernow.com/index.ph...council-reconsiders-museum-at-brentmoor1-2017

Brentmoor Property
• Size: 3.06 acres

• Where: Main and North Calhoun streets, Warrenton.

• Owner: Town of Warrenton.

• Purchased: For $460,000 in February 1999 for development of John S. Mosby Museum.

• House: Brentmoor, 4,200-square-foot Italianate, built in 1850, converted to museum with donations and grants.

• Visitor center: Two-story brick structure that the town built in 2006 at 33 N. Calhoun St., behind Brentmoor.

• Assessed value: $1.12 million total for county tax purposes. Property is tax-exempt.

• Appraised value: $1.17 million for the visitor center and historic Brentmoor.

 

[Old Bay]

The town council has voted 4-2 to put the house on the market to test the waters for a potential sale.

http://www.fauquier.com/news/warren...cle_876b517a-7ca9-11e7-9e90-1f6301f9059b.html

 

[Rebforever]

The town council has voted 4-2 to put the house on the market to test the waters for a potential sale.

http://www.fauquier.com/news/warren...cle_876b517a-7ca9-11e7-9e90-1f6301f9059b.html

Sorry to hear that.