Hopewell-Centre Meeting House – Preservation of Historic Winchester

Friday Photos: Walk and Learn Tours

As we get ready to wrap up 2016, we have a few photos to catch up from our fall programs. We have added two new albums to Flickr with images from the October Hopewell event and the November Fort Loudoun tour. Enjoy the 31 new additions!

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: 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.

Hopewell Meeting House Rededicated

As you may remember, PHW assisted Hopewell Centre Meeting in their fundraising efforts to stabilize and restore the plaster at the Hopewell Meeting House in Clearbrook. The work, which included the plaster repair, wall and ceiling painting, floor refinishing, chimney repointing and some roof work, is now complete. The building was rededicated at the annual Homecoming Day on Sunday, Aug. 26. PHW was on hand as one of the sponsors who helped make the project possible. If you were unable to attend, we were able to take a few photos of the building and grounds to share. See the Homecoming Day photos on Facebook.

For more information on the Hopewell Meeting House, please visit:
Northern Virginia Daily Article by Kim Walter
The Hopewell Centre Home Page

Simple Gifts Dinner

Preservation of Historic Winchester is proud to sponsor the Simple Gifts Dinner, to be held March 26 at 7 PM in the Hopewell Meeting House, Clearbrook, Virginia. The meeting house, built in 1759, has been in continuous use since its construction. After 250 years of service, the interior plaster is in need of a complete restoration. The dinner is part of the fundraising efforts for the Hopewell Meeting House plaster project.

The event will include an informational presentation by PHW Board Member David Logan of Vintage, Inc. Mr. Logan will explain the magnitude of the project, which is beyond that of a normal patch and repair. The dinner will be a traditional colonial affair by candlelight, accompanied by fiddle tunes and Shape-Note music of the Valley. The dinner and presentation is $75 per person. All the proceeds from the event will go toward the interior restoration project, scheduled to begin in the spring of 2011.

To attend the Simple Gifts Dinner, please include your name, address, telephone number, number of guests, and a check payable to Hopewell-Centre Society of Friends. RSVP by March 14 to the Hopewell-Centre Society of Friends:

Hopewell-Centre Society of Friends
Carol F. Melby, Clerk
3240 Cedar Creek Grade
Winchester, VA 22602

If you cannot attend the dinner but wish to contribute, donations may also be made to the above location. Help the Hopewell-Centre Meeting Society of Friends reach their fundraising goal of $100,000 to restore the oldest place of worship in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. Thank you for your support!