building, known as the Pink Box, has been serving the local community for many decades. It is staffed by volunteers and provides an essential service to our community and to visitors to our town.

The tiny 400 square foot building was constructed between 1800 and 1820. The small addition was added around the time of the Civil War.

Originally believed to be a part of the Colonial Inn, the small building became known as the Bishop's Cottage, for resident gunsmith, John Bishop. In the late 1800s it was home to the law offices of Burr and Humphrey Brooke Powell, members of the founding family of our town.

Middleburg lore holds that the little brick house earned its name from a bright paint job in the early 20th century. By 1910, shoemaker and leather worker C. Clarendon Fisher, plied his craft in the house.

In 1937 it housed the offices of "The Middleburg Chronicle Magazine," which later became "The Chronicle of the Horse". In 1953, Mrs. William Hubert opened a dress shop here and a year later, Chubb Lee opened offices for Wilson Horse Transportation and remained until 1988.

In 1989 the town of Middleburg leased the Pink Box and the Historic District Review Committee undertook its restoration as a visitors center. The Pink Box Visitors Center opened in the Spring of 1991 and continues to offer information for tourists and guests.

The Middleburg Museum Foundation has acquired the building and plans to develop a history museum in the near future while preserving the Pink Box for future generations.