sentences:  The Saunders later moved from the property and in 1998, the property was purchased by George Costen of Charlottesville.Beginning in 1999 and for a number of years that followed, Ampthill went under a major historic restoration, which included a near reconstruction of one of the outbuildings, which served as a garage for the Rea family for a number of years.Ampthill was a bed and breakfast and enjoys the prestige of being the only privately owned Jeffersonian property in Virginia.