Mt. Airy man renovates beautiful home from ground up

  • Walter Looney’s Mt. Airy home took more than a decade to renovate.
    Walter Looney’s Mt. Airy home took more than a decade to renovate.
  • Walter Looney points to some of the sights from the widow’s walk of the home he stripped to the studs before rebuilding.
    Walter Looney points to some of the sights from the widow’s walk of the home he stripped to the studs before rebuilding.
  • Walter Looney shows some photos of what his house used to look like when he first bought it in the late 1980s.
    Walter Looney shows some photos of what his house used to look like when he first bought it in the late 1980s.

       You may occasionally find Walter Looney eating lunch on the widow’s walk of his home with his four gargoyles keeping a watchful eye over Mt. Airy. 

       This towering platform…

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