The following is from the Chesapeake Properties Facebook Page
The Old Firehouse has been purchased by local resident, Susan Eidam! She and her husband, Bob, have admired the building since moving their family to Cape Charles in 2017. The seller, Steve Michel, repurposed the building back in 2009 after sitting vacant for many years. Paying tribute to the past, Steve named his restaurant “The Old Firehouse”, as this was originally home to the Cape Charles Fire Department.
Susan says, “It reminds me of some of the historic buildings that we visited while living in England; wonderfully updated for modern neighborhood enterprise.” Inspired Spaces is Susan’s commercial & residential design firm, so she is well acquainted with rehabbing historic buildings for adaptive re-use! She is excited to lease the restaurant to an entrepreneur seeking to bring a new dining experience to our rapidly growing town. For inquiries, Susan can be reached at 615-497-4518.
Kim Starr and Eva Noonan, who made this sale happen, are very excited about the future of the new “Old Firehouse”!
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I wonder if Susan’s draconian and “Historic Review” policies will apply to this building. Don’t touch that awning Susan, it’s “Historic”. We need progress in CC and Susan does nothing but block sensible productive development.
I was born and raised in cape Charles Virginia. I still come every year for family reunions and I also have family still living there. I love cape Charles Virginia I am so happy to see that the historian part of it is still being preserved and reserved for this day and time. It is a beautiful place to raise kids beautiful. I reminisce on my time spent there even coming home every year to visit family for family reunions or vacation. The times I spent there at the beach in cape Charles there were many things for kids like me to do. We will always be together with cousins we always walk to the ice cream parlor that was in the pharmacy that now sits where the old ice house used to be. There was a Crab shack that used to fry soft shell crabs. There was a hamburger place there that used to sell the best burgers and fries and milkshake. There was the soda company where we used to take our empty bottles of soda and get at least a penny to a Nickel back and was able to purchase more delicious drinks from them.
there is so many good memories that I have of cape Charles Virginia that I can write a book about. Cape Charles is such a beautiful and magical place to live I miss it so much as I say I was born and raised there and left when I was a little girl now I’m 61 years old and every time I come there my eyes light up. I wish I still was a little girl where I can just stay there forever. I wish you nothing but the best for your new journey in cape Charles Virginia. whether you were born there or just moved there to New Life you will always be cape Charles.