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Handcrafts of the Shenandoah Valley

Jackie has been creating something for as long as she can remember.

Encouragement and inspiration came from her multi-talented grandmother, who not only taught her to sew, but provided her with self confidence and unlimited materials to make things. Create something from nothing? Of course!

Over the years, Jackie has participated in many Shenandoah Valley Craft Fairs and Shops. She was a partner in Stone Soup Gallery on Winchester’s walking mall, where you might find her creating hand woven baskets or painting detailed images on newly designed Holiday ornaments. Currently, she has added upcycled wood creations to her palette, greenery arrangements and dried flowers from her garden, and so much more.

Jackie works full time with children at Virginia Avenue Elementary School. She lives with her husband Bill, has two grown children and six grandchildren.

Visit Jackie at her Facebook page.

315 West Boscawen Street
The Winchester Little Theatre

Hours
Saturday, Dec. 5, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Open to the Public – No Entry Fee
Complimentary hot cider and coffee for visitors

The Winchester Little Theatre occupies a former Pennsylvania Railroad freight station built circa 1890. The hipped roof over the brick exterior provides cover for the freight loading dock. The interior was modified to accommodate live theatre performances by the Winchester Little Theatre. The Theatre moved into its railway home in 1974 and has provided critically acclaimed professional-quality live theatre to the community ever since. 

Since 2011, the Theatre has been the home of PHW’s Bough and Dough Shop during the Holiday House Tour weekend. You will find a large selection of unique handmade items by local artisans for holiday gift-giving and an extensive amount of fresh-cut greenery for your holiday decorating.

This year’s proceeds from the Shop will benefit the Winchester Little Theatre Restoration Campaign. This Restoration to date has insured the structural integrity, repointed the bricks, freshened the exterior and now anticipates the application of a Virginia Department of Historic Resources-approved roofing surface.

PHW is committed to seeing this local landmark restored and remain a vital arts hub for the Winchester-Frederick County community. When you purchase artisan goods or greenery from the Shop this year, you will be helping Winchester Little Theatre realize their dream of restoring the Pennsylvania Freight Station to its exterior appearance circa 1890.

The Shop is able to process credit cards as well as cash and checks.

Curious about the vendors at the Shop this year? Stay tuned for future posts on the artisans over the next week, or jump right in to the Featured Artisan page at PHW.

Holiday House Tour Tickets are on sale now at the following Winchester locations:

• The Final Yard, 33 East Gerrard Street
• Kimberly’s, 135 North Braddock Street
• Wilkins’ Shoe Center, 7 South Loudoun Street
• Winchester Book Gallery, 185 North Loudoun Street
• Winchester-Frederick County Visitors Center, 1400 South Pleasant Valley Road

You may also purchase House Tour Tickets through the mail at www.phwi.org or through the PayPal buttons below:

Preview Party and Two-Day Tickets Tickets valid for Preview Party and Candlelight Tours on Saturday, December 5, and for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Nonmember $50.00 USDPHW Member $40.00 USD

Daylight Tickets Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Sunday Daylight Adult $20.00 USDSunday Daylight Child $6.00 USD

24 South Washington Street
The Home of David Look and Terry Frye

This Queen Anne style home was built in 1888 by Alexander M. Baker, a local businessman. The exterior is distinguished by its complex patterned slate rooflines, including the prominent bell-shaped tower in the front. The house boasts seven chimneys and a wraparound front porch supported by fourteen columns. The second story projection features two sets of paired windows with concave lozenge-shaped upper lights.

The house was purchased in 1983 and painstakingly restored to a single family residence and appointed with Victorian furniture and ornamentation by Hal and Betty Demuth. The current owners, David Look and Terry Frye, moved into the home in 2014, and they retained a portion of the Demuth’s collections.

Daylight Tickets Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Sunday Daylight Adult $20.00 USDSunday Daylight Child $6.00 USD

220 West Boscawen Street
The Home of Richard Oram and Debra L. Johnson

The Fuller House is an excellent example of Winchester’s Greek Revival residential architecture. The brick and stucco home was built prior to 1854 by Joseph S. Denny and subsequently enlarged by Dr. William McPhee Fuller, a dentist. An advertisement in the Winchester Times for June 30, 1898 locates his office as the “fifth door west of the Episcopal Church on Water Street.”

The house contains ten fireplaces and the original cherry circular staircase which spirals from the first to the third floor. Found throughout are intricate moldings and woodwork showing a master’s touch. The kitchen and a butler’s pantry converted to a wet bar have been completely modernized by Richard Oram. The carriage house to the rear of the property, which has been restored, will be included on the tour. Artifacts of Dr. Fuller will be displayed in the home.

Daylight Tickets Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Sunday Daylight Adult $20.00 USDSunday Daylight Child $6.00 USD

530 Amherst Street
The Office of Preservation of Historic Winchester

The Hexagon House, owned and maintained by the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, has been the location of Preservation of Historic Winchester’s office since 2006. This six-sided Italianate villa was constructed between 1871-1874 by James W. Burgess, a local furniture and casket dealer.

Burgess listed the Hexagon House for sale in the Winchester News in September of 1873. It was advertised as “one of the most convenient and substantial new brick dwellings in the valley” with a basement cistern, spacious rooms, and multiple closets. It is the only known hexagonal house built in Virginia, and one of only a dozen across the United States. The MSV purchased the property in 1985 and restored the building to its 1870s appearance. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

The PHW Office on the first floor is furnished with Henkel-Harris furniture, maps of Winchester, and artwork relating to Winchester’s architecture and the history of PHW.

Daylight Tickets Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Sunday Daylight Adult $20.00 USDSunday Daylight Child $6.00 USD

226 Amherst Street
The Home of George and Jeanne Schember

The Daniel Morgan House, home of the Revolutionary War General, was built in 1786 by London merchant George Flowerdew Norton. General Morgan, famed rifleman, moved here as his retirement home in 1800 and reputedly built the western portion at that time. He died in the upstairs master bedroom on July 6, 1802.

Found throughout the home are the original Dutch elbow locks, doors, and red pine flooring. Most of the eight mantels date to the 1830s when the house was upgraded by Alexander Tidball. Other major architectural features, including the staircase, room layout, paneling and wainscoting, would have been familiar to Morgan himself. The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Mr. and Mrs. Schember’s eclectic collections of artwork, furnishings, and Christmas tree decorations were acquired during their extensive foreign and domestic travels.

Daylight Tickets Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Sunday Daylight Adult $20.00 USDSunday Daylight Child $6.00 USD

608 South Stewart Street
The Home of Joe and Julie Curran

The 1920s home of Joe and Julie Curran incorporates a number of eclectic design decisions to form a typical Winchester vernacular interpretation of a Colonial Revival style home. The shed roof dormer with paired windows adds light and headroom beneath steep roofs. The flat porch roof is surrounded by a turned baluster railing, continuing a longstanding Winchester tradition of double stacked porches. The front porch itself is supported by fluted Doric columns symmetrically arranged to frame the large windows and central Craftsman style door.

The home has an elevator, which replaced the back staircase in 1940 to add accessibility for the homeowner, C. A Robinson. Tim Bandyke restored the home from apartments in 2005, making the Currans only the second family to use the dwelling as their home.

Daylight Tickets Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Sunday Daylight Adult $20.00 USDSunday Daylight Child $6.00 USD

703 South Stewart Street
The Home of Bill and Katy Wiley

The spacious porch on this 1943 Colonial Revival brick home invites you to step inside for the Preview Party on Saturday evening. The home of Bill and Katy Wiley is open for its first Holiday House Tour only on Saturday evening from 6-9 p.m.

The dwelling was built on Lot 14 of the Handley Lands. It was sold to Mrs. Jessie I. Butler on March 30, 1936, with the stipulation that no building valued at less than $8,000 would be built upon the land. The clean lines of the brick exterior are subtly accented with a denticulated cornice and fluted porch columns. The windows are framed by panel shutters with crescent moon cutouts. Such silhouettes were common in Colonial Revival architecture in the period between World War I and II. Solid panel shutters with cutouts could be securely closed, with the open patterns still admitting some natural light and ventilation to the home in the days before air conditioning. Home magazines recommended fastening wire screens over the cutouts to prevent intrepid birds from building nests in the inviting nooks.

Buy tickets online at www.phwi.org/hht.php through PayPal or at any of the advance ticket sale locations.

Preview Party and Two-Day Tickets Tickets valid for Preview Party and Candlelight Tours on Saturday, December 5, and for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.

Nonmember $50.00 USDPHW Member $40.00 USD