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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 313744, member: 56&quot;]From Wikipedia:</p><p>There is evidence that a two-story house existed on the property with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork" rel="nofollow">five-course American</a> brickwork in the early 1800s. John Drish, who purchased the property in 1805, added a Federal-style wing with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickwork" rel="nofollow">Flemish bond</a> brickwork and keystone arches in the mid-1820s and gave the property to his son Wilson Drish, who sold it to Fayette Ball, a distant relative of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" rel="nofollow">George Washington</a>, in 1855. In 1856, the Rev. Charles Nourse, principal of the Leesburg Academy, purchased it. He tried unsuccessfully to sell it in 1859, and then opened the Loudoun Female Collegiate Institute in the house in 1860, after completing an addition to increase the number of bedrooms. Subsequent owners included Sophia Delany, Joseph and Martha Prather, Wallace and Sally George, Yvon and Ella Pike and Marcia McCann Ely and Northcutt Ely, who added electricity and indoor plumbing and eventually sold it to the Marshalls. <b>The Marshalls </b>also added two bay windows, a stone court, and <b>changed the wooden porch to a more durable brick.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Note that last line:&nbsp; according to that, the brick porches date to the 1950s.&nbsp; That changes things.&nbsp; Maybe those iron things are decorative - intended to add a &quot;colonial&quot; touch.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t answer how they started, but I don&#039;t think that would be out of line with design trends in the &#039;50s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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