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Hosted by

The Augusta Garden Club

The Blue Ridge Garden Club

Chairman

Kelley Flanders (540) 280-0223 lexington-staunton@vagardenweek.org

Co-Chairman

Nancy Williams (540) 290-2305lexington-staunton@vagardenweek.org

Tickets: $35 pp. On tour day, available at tour properties and at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum.

Advance tickets: $25 pp. www.vagarden-week.org. Payable by cash or check only, until April 20 at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, Crown

Jewelers, The Emporium, and Heifetz International Music Institute in Staunton, Waynesboro Landscape and Garden Center, The Fashion Gallery in Verona, and Vil-lage Garden Center in Fishersville. By mail before April 14, send a stamped, self-ad-dressed envelope with check payable to The Augusta Garden Club, c/o Kathy Garrison, Treasurer, 503 Mt. View Drive, Staunton, VA 24401.

Box lunches catered by The Meating Place are $15 each. Order by mail by

sending cash or check to The Augusta Garden Club, Kathy Garrison, Treasurer, 503 Mt. View Drive, Staunton, VA 24401 to reserve by April 7. Available for pickup and served at the Bank Barn, 151 Ferguson Lane. For menu options, and for ordering instructions, lexington-staunton@vgarden- week.org.

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Spend a day meandering through the fields and farms of Middlebrook. Located just ten miles southwest of downtown Staunton, visitors will discover one of the best preserved rural villages in Augusta County. This driving tour celebrates the enduring charm of country living in the Shenandoah Valley. From the historic buildings of Sugar Loaf Farm to a folk artist’s abode and studio, the tour highlights the beauty and diversity of country living today. Queen City Plein Air Festival artists will be painting in the gardens of the homes on the morning of the tour.

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73 Sleepy Hollow Road

A branch of Folly Mills Creek runs through the field at the entrance to

this property. Nearby, the owners’ Norwe-gian Fjord ponies graze. Towering pines and perennial beds line the drive leading to this large, traditional house, completing a pic-turesque scene. Built of brick and clapboard by the owners in 1996, it crowns the hilltop and looks down on a sweeping lawn dotted with deciduous trees and evergreens. A ga-zebo graces the hillside and Showalter’s Mountain looms in the distance.The spa-cious interior reflects the owners’ love for music, art and animals. Musical instruments are artistically placed throughout and in-clude a trumpet that belonged to the own-er’s father who, when young, played Dixie-land in New Orleans. Paintings of animals, plants and landscapes, many by local artists, decorate softly colored walls. Handcrafted furniture and oriental rugs add warmth and charm. Of note is the sunroom with win-dows on three sides and the dramatic cathe-dral ceiling. The family room features a stone fireplace, comfortable furnishings and a hand-carved, Appalachian dulcimer. The adjacent recreation room includes a free-standing fireplace, hot tub and a kennel for two rescued coonhounds. Beverly and Pete Frank, owners.

803 Stingy Hollow Road

This Shenandoah home’s exposed red oak logs date back to its construction

between 1810 and 1820. The owners re-stored the logs and floors to their original condition by removing the siding and floor coverings that existed when they purchased the structure in 1979. In addition, they re-placed the original horsehair and mud chink-ing and added interior doors to connect a c. 1900 frame addition with the log house. Af-ter restoring the log part of the house, natural poplar vertical siding was placed over the frame part of the house. In 2000 the kitchen was updated, a front porch added and a two-story addition off the kitchen that in-cludes a studio upstairs and a sunroom down-stairs was completed. The house sits on a five-acre tract bounded on three sides by Folly Mills Creek where headwaters meet and flow to the Middle and Shenandoah Rivers. When indoor plumbing was installed during the ini-tial renovation, the owner found evidence that water had been previously supplied from the stream and a nearby spring with a ram pump. They also discovered an intact out-house. The house appears in the Virginia His-torical Registry and was featured in a study documenting intact log houses in the Shenan-doah Valley by a graduate student from James Madison University in the 1980s. Don and Mary Ann Vessey, owners

Complimentary bottled water available in the garden at 803 Stingy Hollow Rd.

Facilities: Available at Sugar Loaf Farm, 151 Ferguson Lane.

Friday, April 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. Join us for a Garden Party to celebrate His-

toric Garden Week in the gardens of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, a restoration project of the Garden Club of Virginia. To purchase tickets, and for more information, www.woodrowwilson.org.

Saturday, April 21. Beverley Street Studio School’s professional Queen

City Plein Air painters will be in the gardens of the tour painting. After the tour, view their completed works during a gallery sale and reception at the Beverley Street Studio School & Co-Art Galleries in downtown Staunton, 22 W. Beverley St. www.bsss-chool.org.

Saturday, April 21, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 151 Ferguson Lane. Special short per-

formances of favorites for piano, violin, and cello featuring performers from the Heifetz International Music Institute, the world- renowned training ground for young classical musicians that takes place every summer at Mary Baldwin University. www.heifetzinstitute.org.

Directions: Maps will be included as part of the local brochure posted online at www.augustagardenclub.org and on Facebook under “Historic Garden Week in Staunton & Augusta County, Virginia.”

Ample street parking available at each tour property.

Sugar Loaf Farm151 Ferguson Lane

Nestled in the heart of the Shenandoah Val-ley on 2,000 acres, this early 19th century farm complex is significant for its intact collection of early agricultural buildings, in-cluding the original brick gristmill, miller’s house, springhouse, and barn. This com-plex reflects early farming settlement and practices in Augusta County. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Sugar Loaf Farm, which takes its name from the distinctive cone-shaped mountain on the property, was owned by John Summers in 1773. His son David built the original 1820s brick house and primary outbuild-ings that exist today. Subsequent owners greatly altered and expanded the house over time. In the 1870s, a large I-House addition nearly doubled the size and changed the orientation of the house; and a large classical portico was added in the 1930s. The current owners have preserved the best of the historic features, inside and out, to reflect its evolution and variety of architectural detailing. They recently up-dated the home as a pastoral retreat for this working registered Angus cattle farm. The large bank barn, also open for the tour, has been converted into a multi-use event facility and includes a deck over-looking a 10-acre lake. Eidson Creek, on which the primary buildings are located, flows through the property in a north-easterly direction. The local springs and ponds feed this creek, which provides the source of power for the operation of the mill. The farmhouse, stone springhouse, bank barn, and other contemporary farm buildings are located west of the creek bed and the miller’s house and mill are located to the east of it. All of the buildings are surrounded by rolling hills and are linked by a tree-lined paved road that leads into the farm from Route 695, crosses Eidson Creek, and continues through the property to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray Ferguson, owners.

Ticket includes admission to the following 5 properties and the garden at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library:

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Forest Hill Farm505 Arborhill Road

Sited amidst old growth tulip pop-lars, redbud, boxwood hedges, dog-

woods and spring-blooming daffodils, For-est Hill Farm has a long and elusive history. The property may have sheltered Civil War soldiers. The current owners, who recently purchased the farm, have an affinity for old houses and American antiques. They are re-storing the interior of the two-story timber beam house, as well as the timber beam springhouse, the board-and-batten chicken house, the granary and a two-story smoke-house. The original c. 1820 house appears to have been a single room cabin with a large fireplace for heat and cooking with a loft-style bedroom above. Later in the 19th century a second, larger living room, dining room, and small kitchen were added down-stairs with two additional bedrooms above. In the 1970s, the previous owner removed most of the exterior siding to expose the original timbers and replaced the original daub with chinking. He also added a large kitchen and inviting porch to the rear. The kitchen includes modern lighting, exposed beams and a stone fireplace, while the din-ing room features a punched tin chandelier, pine paneling and a panoramic view of the

property. The front rooms boast original stone fireplaces and exposed beams on the walls and ceilings. An antique corner cup-board displays nineteenth century flow blue china, and period portraits hang between the windows. Heart of pine floors through-out add warmth and cohesiveness. The downstairs of the house, gardens and all farm buildings are open for touring. Dr. and Mrs. Sam Rowe, owners.

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum20 North Coalter Street

The historic Presbyterian Manse where President Wilson was born

in 1856 has been restored to its original appearance and contains Wilson artifacts and period furnishings. The former terraced boxwood gardens below the Manse, which are now in the process of being replaced by new plantings, was an early restoration project of the Garden Club of Virginia (GCV), and were designed in 1933 by noted Richmond landscape architect Charles Gillette. The gardens were expanded in 1967-68 to include a brick terrace designed by landscape archi-tect Ralph E. Griswold. In 1990 the Muse-um opened in a mansion down the street from the Manse, separated by an adminis-tration building. Also, in 1990, the GCV retained Rudy J. Favretti to design a fore-court and lawn around the Museum and added a walkway connecting the Museum with the gardens. Recently, the Garden Club of Virginia brought new life to the gardens by expanding the perimeter fenc-ing and planting new boxwood, lilacs, hostas and other perennials. www.wood-rowwilson.org

Places of Interest: Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave. An outdoor, living history museum with exhibits and programs that explore the diverse old world origins of the earliest immigrants to America and the culture they created together. ww.frontiermuseum.org

Polyface Farm, 55 Pure Meadows Ln., Swoope. Run by Joel Salatin and his fami-ly, the farm is driven using unconventional methods and is where Salatin developed and put into practice many of his most significant agricultural methods. These include direct marketing of meats and produce to con-sumers, pastured poultry, grass-fed beef and the rotation method, which makes his farm more like an ecological system than conven-tional farming. www.polyfacefarms.com

Project Dogwood at Gypsy Hill Park, 600 Churchville Ave., and Montgomery Hall Park, 1110 Montgomery Ave. Nearly a cen-tury ago, Staunton’s city manager dreamed of becoming the dogwood capital of Vir-ginia. Many of the trees that were original to the first dogwood initiative were lost to storm and disease. For the last four years, the City of Staunton, in partnership with the Augusta Garden Club, has been work-ing to replenish these trees. Dozens of trees and cultivated varieties have been planted.

Staunton Augusta Farmers’ Market, Wharf parking lot on Johnson St. Flowers, farm fresh produce, herbs, meats and fresh baked goods from the Shenandoah Valley. www.safarmersmarket.com

Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center, 10 South Market St. The world’s only re-creation of Shake-speare’s original indoor theatre. wwwASC-staunton.com

Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 W. Beverley St. Founded in 1746, there are twelve Tif-fany windows inside, which spans Louis Comfort Tiffany’s 40-year career, as well as an outdoor labyrinth designed by Bonny Strassler, ASLA as a handicapped accessible tool available to people of all spiritual tra-ditions. www.trinitystaunton.org

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Hosted by

Nansemond River Garden Club

Elizabeth River Garden Club

Franklin Garden Club

Chairmen

Linda N. MinnixSandy CanadaSusan W. Powellportsmouthsuffolkfranklin @vagardenweek.org

Tickets: $35 pp. Available on tour day at headquarters only.

Advance tickets: $30 pp. www.vagarden-week.org. Available locally at A. Dodson’s in Suffolk, Norfolk, Virginia Beach; Suffolk Tourism in Suffolk, 18th Century Merchant in Chesapeake, Bowman’s Gardens in Portsmouth, Alphabet Soup in Franklin, The Peanut Patch in Courtland and Lake Prince Retirement Center in Suffolk.

Tour headquarters, Lunch and Facilities: Ebenezer United Methodist Church, 1589 Steeple Drive, Suffolk, VA 23433.

$15 pp. Available from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Ebenezer United Methodist

Church. Reservations required by April 8. Susan Terry at Susanterry1@charter.net for reservations and menu.

Bleakhorn Cottage, 2000 Bleakhorn Road, Suffolk. The Greater Chucka-

tuck Historical Foundation and the Suffolk River Heritage will display photos, artifacts and books from local residents. Author and historian Karla Smith will also be available from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Barrel Point Gardens, 9160 Wigneil Street, Suffolk. Representatives from

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Explore the village of Eclipse surrounded by the Chuckatuck and Bleakhorn Creeks, and the Nansemond and James Rivers, an area known for oystering, fishing, farming and boatbuilding. By 1691, the Chuckatuck Creek was an important port used for trading by the English and the West Indies company. The waterways were thoroughfares, and from their banks settlers witnessed: Lord Dunmore’s bombing of Norfolk in 1775, the British assault on Craney Island in 1812, and the battle of the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Merrimac) during the Civil War. A nearby Nansemond Indian settlement is in the process of being restored. Visitors will appreciate the history and culture of the area, and enjoy access to unique and diverse private homes surrounded by nationally recognized gardens.

SuffolkSaturday, April 21, 201810 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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