In 1939, Captain and Mrs. Newton H. White purchased land in Prince George’s
County with the intention of creating a model dairy farm. The farm proved
to be very lucrative and the couple commissioned architect W.E. Bottomly to
build a mansion on the property. He named the two-story brick Neo-Georgian
style home and the surrounding 586 acre tract Enterprise Estate, after the U.S.S. Enterprise", the ship he commanded prior to World War II. It included, model dairy
farm buildings and cemetery; the land, known as Warington, was owned for
over a century by the Waring family, six of whose members are buried in a
small fenced plot near the present mansion. Today the mansion is surrounded
by Enterprise Golf Course and consists of six large rooms, a contemporary
glass-enclosed atrium, two upstairs dressing rooms, and an outdoor brick
patio with a central waterfall fountain."
