Claxton Walker & Associates

Serving D.C., Maryland, Virginia and the Entire Chesapeake Bay Area

 

Claxton comes from a long line of generations of  construction, appraisal, sales and general real estate service forebears. Born in 1924 and native to the Washington, DC area, Claxton had early exposure to the construction of homes and the real estate industry. As a child attending grade school at Rosemary Elementary in Chevy Chase, he reminisces about going  through neighborhood houses  while under construction during his time after school. Retired now to the Eastern shore of Maryland, with six grown children and many grand children, Clack has much time in these later years to reflect on the many accomplishments these past decades have brought.

  His formal schooling includes a B.S. degree in Education from the University of Maryland and Graduate studies at Maryland and American University. He has also taken many short courses by either state or trade organizations mainly pertaining to the trade of Construction or Home Inspection. His early professional background includes being an Industrial Arts Teacher for private as well as public Schools, Athletic Director and coach for 10 years, Builder, Remodler / and General contractor of residential, commercial and marina  properties and Real Estate Appraiser and Broker. Claxton also held positions with large home construction firms as a superintendent or project manager.
   
     All of this background came to a head when Clack seized the moment realizing that the home buyer was somewhat naive in the home buying process and needed someone on their side to truly state the condition of the house. His action was to form the company we are today – Claxton Walker & Associates.

    Claxton Walker & Associates  was perhaps the first and is considered now the oldest continually active operating Home Inspection business in the United States. Son, Joseph Claxton Walker now runs the business. During his 24 years of Home inspection, Claxton personally performed over 5,000 inspections and many more where directly under his responsibility. The company to date has performed over  32,000 inspections. Claxton Walker helped form this new industry and was instrumental in organizing, along with other inspectors around the country, the nationally recognized professional society -  "The American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI)". ASHI has honored Claxton Walker  for the expertise that he brought to the basic formation and adoption of  its’ Standards of Practice & Code of Ethics.

    Over the years, many pertinent licenses, credits and organizational memberships were obtained by Claxton Publications written by Claxton are numerous, they include over 100 articles for the Washington Post, Consumer Journals, and Technical publications. Two books were also written-" WAGE THE ENERGY WAR"  and "BUYING YOUR HOUSE", . Claxton was also consulting editor for the Time/Life Home repair and improvement series. There were many times he was quoted and interviewed for National Magazines, TV and Radio. His memberships include ASHI,  BOCA, CREA, NAHB,   NAREA,  and  ROTARY.
    
        While retired, Claxton went to a 50th reunion of his fellow Combat Fourth Marine Division. He served in the Pacific theater on islands and battles of the Marshall,  Saipan, Tinian,   and Iwo Jima. His Hobbies have always included woodworking and boating and until recently he volunteered  as a Docent at the Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.

We are sad to announce that Claxton died on October 2, 2006.