SHEPHERDSTOWN - After closing its doors to the public at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Little House began looking a little worse for wear.

So, it remained closed to the public even after the pandemic had ended, and life in Shepherdstown had gone back to normal.

According to Holly Frye, Shepherd University vice president for student affairs and director of community relations, it became clear that the Little House - located on East High Street behind White Hall - needed some major restoration work, before it could be reopened.

"A building that sits empty never does well," Frye said. "When we tried to reopen it after the pandemic, we looked around realized that we really needed to do some work on it."

The Little House was built in the summers of 1928 and 1929 as a cl

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