With Halloween one week away, Fairfax County, Virginia, is offering a spooky excursion. The Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton is scaring visitors at its eighth annual Workhouse Haunt, a walking trail ...

LORTON, Va. (7News) — Reporter's Notebook: The Workhouse Arts Center in Northern Virginia is among the most unique creative spaces in the DMV having formally been a prison. Now, there’s a form of ...

The Workhouse Arts Center is celebrating a decade of creative, spooky and haunted trails in Lorton, Virginia. The 10th annual Workhouse Haunt walking experience delivers one more weekend of frights ...

In local Bunnyman Bridge lore, legend has it that the actual Bunnyman was being transported from the Lorton Prison to a nearby insane asylum, so it’s only fitting that a new brewery for the Workhouse ...

I am writing to suggest that Fairfax County taxpayers be engaged more actively in deciding on the future of the Lorton Workhouse that was managed poorly by the nonprofit Lorton Arts Foundation, ...

The Workhouse Arts Center annual gala is this Saturday, Nov. 18. This black-tie event celebrating 15 years of artistry at the Workhouse will include art activations, dinner, live band, dancing, and ...

The new Youth Arts Center is housed in a recently refurbished dormitory built in 1925 for what was then the correctional facility. With the renovation, the Lorton Workhouse will expand its performing ...

On a recent day as the sun blazed, a construction crew at the new arts center in Lorton drove a bulldozer straight toward one of the most visible reminders of this site's past: a forbidding fence that ...

Little remains to hint that the Workhouse Arts Center was once part of the Lorton Correctional Complex. In one corner of the center's 55-acre campus stand three watchtowers, but that is about it for ...