Have you given PHW your feedback on the 2012 Holiday House Tour yet? PHW is preparing for a meeting next week to discuss what can be changed and improved for 2013. If you don’t respond by January 11, your feedback might not be included in the report. This is your chance to make some anonymous suggestions and should take just five to ten minutes at most to complete.
Again, thank you for your support, and we hope to see you at the 37th Holiday House Tour in 2013!
We continue our journey through the renovation process at the Samuel Noakes House at 101 West Cork Street/201 South Braddock Street. Updates are posted each Tuesday through the PHW blog, following the progress with virtual hardhat tours. The previous entries may be found at the PHW blog at part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, and part 17.
Although it has been a while since we last visited the Noakes house and the building was open for in-person tours during the 2012 Holiday House Tour, our virtual tours of the building are not quite complete. We will jump backwards in time a bit to show some of the progress shortly before the Holiday House Tour. Before you saw the nearly finished product on December 8 and 9, drywall and built-in shelving went in to hide the insulation and mechanical systems. Electrical systems also were installed and made functional. While the changes have been less dramatic, the apartments are becoming two clearly defined, separate living areas.
During this time, more behind the scenes work took place with the Barbershop, including another trip to the Board of Architectural Review to discuss the door replacement and an inspection to provide fire separation between the commercial space and living space above. The bottoms of the structural timbers in the ceiling of the Barbershop will remain exposed between the drywall to preserve a historic feel. The BAR also approved the Braddock Street apartment and Barbershop door colors in Evening Sky blue, the same color as the Cork Street apartment. A small railing outside the Barbershop entrance was also approved, along with replacing the original Barbershop door with a replica retaining the mullion pattern of the existing door.
Interior walls and ceilings go up at Braddock Street
Electrical and lighting systems are installed
Cork Street steel railings and floor joists are painted
The built-ins take shape in the Braddock Street space
Did you attend Preservation of Historic Winchester’s Holiday House Tour this year? We are always striving to improve the tour experience, so we hope you will do us one more favor and complete this online survey to give us feedback on the guest experience of the tour. The survey should take five to ten minutes at most to complete.
Again, thank you for your support, and we hope to see you at the 37th Holiday House Tour in 2013!
It’s almost time for PHW’s 36th Holiday House Tour! While the PHW Office has sold out of Preview Party (Saturday) tickets, you may still purchase them at the other ticket sale locations: Kimberly’s, The Winchester Book Gallery, The Final Yard, and on Saturday at the Bough and Dough Shop at the Winchester Little Theatre, 315 West Boscawen Street.
Thank you to everyone who has purchased or will purchase a ticket this year, or buys an item or greenery at the Bough and Dough Shop. You’re helping to preserve historic Winchester and having fun at the same time!
201 South Braddock Street
John Chesson and Anne Schempp
House Chairman Sandra Bosley
Constructed circa 1810 with a Federal-style form, the building was altered in the 1840s to reflect the fashionable Greek Revival style. Samuel Noakes purchased the house and property in 1857. The house was altered again in the twentieth century for commercial use as the Peoples Barber Shop. The building is a mixture of limestone and brick covered with a low-pitched, side-gabled roof, covered with standing-seam metal. The house is currently undergoing renovation. Images of the process will be presented during the tour of the space.
For everyone working on the membership signup contest, we are down to the wire with just one week to go. If you’re holding onto any memberships, they need to be turned in to the PHW Office Friday, December 7 by 5 PM. Entries will be tallied and announced on Monday, December 10. The current leader has 16 entries, so make sure you work hard to match or beat that number to be in the running for the framed Beyer print or the $300 store credit to Eugene B. Smith’s Gallery!
211 South Washington Street
Erich and Kristin Bruhn
House Chairman Karen Clay
Historically known as the Richard Byrd Residence, this Federal-style dwelling was constructed in 1832 for the prominent Winchester lawyer and member of the Virginia House of Delegates of the same name. Built of Flemish-bond brick, the home is topped with a hipped roof featuring a central Palladian dormer window. The Federal-style entrance sports a fine elliptical fanlight and moldings. The Queen Anne-style porch embellished with a dentilated cornice and spindlework was added circa 1870. This house was willed to PHW by Mrs. Lucille Lozier, an early president of the organization. It is now owned by the Bruhns.
205 South Washington Street
Ardis Cullers
House Chairman Mark Lore
Constructed circa 1951 by Boyd Hamman, this one-and-one-half-story home was designed in the Colonial Revival style with a Cape Cod form. Two dormers, each with a front-gabled roof, extend from the eastern slope of the roof. The central bay on the façade contains a single-leaf, paneled wood door surrounded by four-light sidelights and a semi-elliptical fanlight. This was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Patton, who established Patton’s Furniture Sales in 1957. The most striking feature of the house’s decoration is the series of eight large and two small original Audubon engravings from the early 1800s, purchased from Arader Galleries in New York. They are from a series of books that James Audubon and Robert Havell created, intended to depict all birds and animals in North America.
103 South Washington Street
Chuck Alton and Judith Omslaer
House Chairman John Barker
This Italianate style home was constructed circa 1880 for the Willis family. The elongated first-story windows, segmental brick arches, and modest detailing typifies domestic architecture in Winchester during this period. A centered, half-hipped bay typical of the Italianate form projects from the façade. Paired scrolled brackets, cornice returns an ogee-molded cornice, and jig-sawn brackets and pendants complete the Italianate styling.
140 West Boscawen Street
Christ Episcopal Church
House Chairman Chris Ferguson
Christ Episcopal Church has been in continuous use as a sacred site in Winchester since its construction in 1828. The Gothic Revival-style building is dominated by the three-story bell tower crowned with finials and quatrefoil balustrades. A pointed-arch accented with a flower motif surrounds the double-leaf paneled wood doors. Of particular interest and beauty are the stained glass windows, installed in the late 19th century by the Gernhart Company of Baltimore.