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Wishing You a Merry Christmas

A Merry Christmas - Inset of Santa with Toys and Tree Antique Postcard

The PHW office will be closed from December 23-27 for the Christmas holiday. Refund requests from the Holiday House Tour Sunday Daylight Tour will continue to be processed during this period. Any outstanding requests may be mailed to:

PHW
530 Amherst St.
Winchester, VA 22601

Thank you, and happy holidays to you and your family from Preservation of Historic Winchester!

Student Paper on Downtown Redevelopment Added to PHW’s Digital Library

A student paper on planning and development in Winchester has been digitized for future researchers. The paper may be of interest to those researching the growth of Winchester and past planning ordinances, particularly from 1940-1970. It also provides artist renderings and alternative plans for the Loudoun Street Mall instead of the fully pedestrian mall that was eventually implemented.

If this sounds like it could help you in your research, please contact the PHW office. Like other student papers in PHW’s collection, researchers are encouraged to independently verify any sources cited in the report.

Student Papers on the Kurtz Building Added to PHW’s Digital Library

Student papers on the Kurtz Building have been digitized to preserve the texts for future researchers. The papers were written in the spring of 1988 for a class with Prof. Warren Hofstra. The papers are predominantly oral history interviews and cover the following topics:

  • “An Overlook of the Construction of the Kurtz Building” (Interview with William Wine)
  • “Cartwright Funeral Home” (Interview with Bruce Cartwright)
  • “Interview with J. Thomas Boyd”
  • “Kurtz Building and Valley Agriculture” (Interview with Ben Ritter)
  • “Lucy Fitzhugh Kurtz” (Interview with Lorina Mae Faegans)
  • “Snapp Interview”
  • “Kurtz Building: Still of Use and Value to the Winchester Community” (Interview with Eleanor White)
  • “The Kurtz Building as a Museum” (Interview with Karen Clay)
  • “The Kurtz Building in Connection with the Business of the Community” (Interview with Ralph Snapp)
  • “The Kurtz’s Building” (Brief sketch of the building’s history)
  • “The Man Behind the Building” (Biographical sketch of Capt. George W. Kurtz)
  • “The Preservation of the Kurtz Building” (Interviews with Pat Zontine and Sonya Tolley)
  • “The Uses of the Kurtz Building During and After the Civil War”
  • “Walls Can’t Talk” (Interview with George Ritter)

Please contact the office if you would like to review this collection in your research – but please keep in mind these are uncorrected student papers. Researcher discretion and additional verification is recommended for these sources.