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Sneak Peek: Holiday House Tour 2016 Event Schedule

As you may have guessed, the recent radio silence from PHW is because we have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on the 40th annual Holiday House Tour. We are now ready to announce the schedule of events for 2016:

Saturday, December 3
Bough & Dough Shop at Winchester Little Theatre, 315 West Boscawen Street, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. *

Handbell concert at Braddock Street United Methodist Church, 115 Wolfe Street, 3 p.m. *

George Washington’s Office Museum open 3—9 p.m. *

Candlelight House Tours 6—9 p.m. at:
203 South Braddock Street, Site of the Preview Party
314 Courtfield Avenue
220 West Boscawen Street
514 Amherst Street

Sunday, December 4
Bough & Dough Shop at Winchester Little Theatre, 315 West Boscawen Street, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. *

Daylight House Tours 1—5 p.m. at:
106 North Cameron Street
203 South Braddock Street
314 Courtfield Avenue
220 West Boscawen Street
514 Amherst Street

Shenandoah University choirs at Braddock Street United Methodist Church, 115 Wolfe Street, 7 p.m. *

Event Pricing
Two-Day Tour Tickets (which includes light refreshments and drinks at the Preview Party house 203 South Braddock Street on Saturday evening and access to 106 North Cameron Street on Sunday) are $20/person.
Sunday-Only Tickets are $15/person.
* These marked events taking place on Holiday House Tour weekend are free and open to the public! No Holiday House Tour ticket is required.

Reminder: Log Structure Maintenance and Repairs

Please join us next Thursday for the fall Lunch and Learn Lecture Log Structure Maintenance and Repairs. Moss Rudley, Acting Superintendent of the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Maryland, presents this much-requested topic on maintaining and repairing our historic log structures. Bring a lunch and learn with us!

Date: November 3, 2016
Time: Noon-1 PM
Place: OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent St., Winchester, VA
RSVP: Appreciated but not required
Cost: Free and open to the public
Questions? Contact PHW at phwinc.org@gmail.com or 540-667-3577.

Parking is limited and on-street parking is metered; we recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark, across the street from OakCrest.

Reminder: Hopewell Meeting House Tour Tomorrow!

Please join us for our first Walk and Learn tour on Saturday, October 22. Jim Riley will lead a tour of the area’s oldest Quaker Meeting House. Learn the background on the Quakers and the history of the Hopewell Meeting house site. Weather permitting, the tour will include an outdoor component. The event is expected to last 1 to 1.5 hours. Water will be available.

Meet at Hopewell Meeting House, 604 Hopewell Road, Clear Brook, VA at 11 AM. The event is free and open to the public.

Coming Soon: Lincoln Historic Homes Tour

If the thought of visiting our Hopewell Meeting House in Clear Brook this weekend has whetted your appetite for more Quaker homes and history, the Loudoun Preservation Society will host a tour of a Quaker community in Lincoln, Virginia on Sunday, November 6, 2016 from 1-5 PM. A number of historic homes, cemeteries, and other buildings will be open to the public.

Tickets will be available for purchase at the Goose Creek Meeting House, 18204 Lincoln Road, Purcellville, VA, from 1 to 3 PM the day of the tour, $20 per person or $40 per family. Preorders may also be made via PayPal at the event webpage listing (scroll to the bottom of the page to find the PayPal instructions).

All proceeds from the tour support Loudoun Preservation Society’s Grants Program. Learn more about LPS at their website www.preserveloudoun.org.

Coming Soon: Walk and Learn Lectures!

Introducing a new spin on the Lunch and Learn series…Walk and Learn!

This fall, PHW has lined up two on site visits for a more hands-on learning experience. First, on Saturday, October 22, Jim Riley will lead a Saturday tour of the area’s oldest Quaker Meeting House. Learn the background on the Quakers and the history of the Hopewell Meeting house site. Weather permitting, the tour will include an outdoor component. The event is expected to last 1 to 1.5 hours. Water will be available.

Meet at Hopewell Meeting House, 604 Hopewell Road, Clear Brook, VA at 11 AM. The event is free and open to the public.

Second, Norman Baker of the French and Indian War Foundation will lead a tour of the site of Winchester’s Fort Loudoun on Thursday, November 10 at noon, weather permitting. The walking tour of the area once covered by the fort will last one hour, with time after for questions for those who can stay longer. On-street parking is limited, but parking is available at the nearby Loudoun Street Autopark.

Meet at noon at 419 North Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP your attendance for this tour by November 3 to PHW at 540-667-3577 or phwinc.org@gmail.com.

Dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes for both tours. For questions and RSVPs, please call 540-667-3577 or email phwinc.org@gmail.com.

Friday Photos: Old John Kerr

This week, we have just eight photos to share of the first Old John Kerr School on South Cameron Street. The photos show a few interior photos when the building was vacant, as well as exterior photos of the building encased in scaffolding while it was being cleaned and repainted during the rehabilitation by Shenandoah University. It also shows the telltale signs of a file that was heavily used, as the documents inside, including the eight photos, had a run in with a cup of coffee many moons ago.

Find all the photos – and a number of articles we scanned as part of the 50 years of PHW history blog posts – in the Old John Kerr School album on Flickr.

Coming Soon: Winchester Frontier Days, Reconstructing Lost Architecture

Two events are happening soon! First, on Saturday, October 8, celebrate the history of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show on the 100th anniversary of his visit to Winchester. Head out to the beautiful Homestead Farm and Market, 2502 N. Frederick Pike, Winchester, Virginia between 11 AM – 3 PM for a fun day of celebration, history lessons, live music, and an anticipated appearance by “Buffalo Bill” himself. The event will be held, rain or shine! Find more information on Facebook.

Second, on Monday, October 10, head to the Crentz Room in the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC between 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM for a free presentation by Calder Loth on “Reconstructing Lost Architecture: A Commendable Tradition.” Reconstruction of a lost historic structure is one of the great taboos of historic preservation. Nevertheless, a widespread popular sentiment holds that natural or man-made disasters should not deprive us of our heritage. Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources Calder Loth will provide the arguments for rebuilding demolished historic structures, and will offer examples from around the world. Find more information about the event at H-Net.

Friday Photos: PHW Field Trip

Happy Friday! This week we have added just under fifty photos to the Flickr account, and all of them are from outside of Winchester. Five photos are of a house in Stephens City across from Lantz’s Pharmacy, circa 1986, before it was rehabilitated. See those photos at the end of the Frederick County album.

The remaining 41 photos are all believed to have originated from the 1989 field trip “Old Richmond Today.” The day trip started with a tour of the Executive Mansion and Capitol Hill, followed by a tour of the Wickham Valentine House and a luncheon in the Valentine Museum Gardens. The afternoon continued with a full line up of historic sites, beginning with a tour of the White House of the Confederacy. A walking tour of East Franklin Street included stops in the Bolling Haxall House, Mayo Carter House, and Linden Row Guest Residences. The day concluded with a tour of the Jefferson Hotel with tea on the mezzanine before heading back to Winchester. See the photos (and maybe spot some familiar faces in the crowd) in the Flickr album.

Friday Photos: A Loudoun Street Miscellany

Happy Friday! First, thank you to those who have dropped off some plastic shopping bags for the Bough and Dough Shop. Please keep them coming! We will try to collect as many as we can before December, and any that are not used this year will be saved for future events.

Second, this is a friendly reminder that we are about one month out from the deadline for Holiday House Tour advertising sponsors in our program booklet. This year, we are extremely grateful to have a team of business majors from Shenandoah University helping us make contact with sponsors as part of their classwork. If you are contacted by students for advertising opportunities, please know they are doing it with the blessing of PHW, and if any questions arise, we are happy to talk to you here at the PHW office.

Third, for those anxiously awaiting some word on the fall Lunch and Learn lectures, save the dates of October 22 and November 3. We are working on a special Saturday site visit to Hopewell Meeting House and a regular lunchtime program on log building maintenance, with two additional program dates pending.

Fourth, on to the photos! This week, PHW added about 50 images to the Flickr account, the majority of which are on Loudoun Street – North, South, and the Walking Mall. Of particular interest may be some photos that fell out of the Red Lion Tavern informational files. As you may know, there was previously a marble yard and small wooden shop building on Cork Street operated by the owners of the Red Lion Tavern. While we have photographic documentation of the Valley Marble Works/Haines’ Memorials building before it was demolished, Ben Ritter found a receipt from 1857 with a drawing the the building and donated two photos of it to PHW in 1995.

Catch all the new images at the top of the Flickr photostream.

Coming in October: The Octagon House near Alexandria

We know many people are fascinated with the interesting history of the Hexagon House in Winchester. Here is an opportunity to hear the story of one octagon house, the slightly more common architectural cousin of the Hexagon House, and perhaps one of the buildings that may have provided inspiration to James Burgess for his Winchester home.

Friends of Alexandria Archaeology (FOAA) is sponsoring a lecture on a short-lived octagon house constructed in Alexandria in 1856 which burned to the ground in 1866. In its brief existence, it became associated with several prominent figures of the Civil War, but after the building disappeared, the associated history, too, began to fade. Julia Claypool, a historian and cultural resources planner and a former Historic Site Administrator and Director of the Carlyle House Historic Park in Alexandria, will weave together the fascinating history and people associated with this all but forgotten landmark.

Date: Saturday, October 15, 2016

Time: 10:00am-noon

Location:
Alexandria Archaeology Museum
105 North Union Street, #327
Alexandria, VA 22314

The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information, visit their website.