SUNRISE AT SILAS BURKE HOUSE Burke, Va.


Provider: Sunrise Senior Living Architect: Mosley Architects Design Firm: The In-house Design Team at Sunrise Senior Living, Burke, Virginia


With echoes of the past, Sunrise at Silas Burke House brings to life a vibrant senior living community in Burke, a town in up- scale Fairfax County just outside of Wash- ington, D.C. The town is named after Silas Burke, a


prominent resident and landowner who circa 1824 built a home for his family. That home became a beloved local landmark known as the Silas Burke House. Sunrise purchased the five-acre Silas


Burke property in 2014. The goal: Build a new Sunrise community to serve local se- niors and to perserve and restore the his- toric home to be used by the community. The new Sunrise residences opened in


2018, and the company’s in-house design team also restored the historic home.


24 SENIOR LIVING EXECUTIVE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019


“This was a unique opportunity,” says


Andrea Owensby, vice president of design, Sunrise Senior Living. “The house provid- ed much of the inspiration for the design details.” The new building is a traditional Sunrise-


style mansion with 81 suites offering assisted living and memory care. The Sunrise project was intentionally


situated behind the historic home, to ensure the latter’s prominence. Silas Burke House sits atop a hill. The


slope of the land was advantageous, pro- viding the opportunity to recess the new structure into the hill. As a result, the building has two ground-


level stories, one in back and one in front. “Residents have more access to the out-


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