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Holiday House Tour 2012: 230 West Boscawen Street

230 West Boscawen Street
New Lifestyles
House Chairman Lawrence Belkin

Known as the George Seevers Residence or the Holly House, this circa 1854 building was designed in the Greek Revival style with Italianate influences. The brick structure combines Greek Revival-style frieze windows and pedimented doorway surround with Italianate arched windows, brick quoins, and hood molds. Union General Banks used this building as his headquarters in 1862. The building was later owned by the various members of the Conrad family from 1879-1940 before being converted to office space. Today it is the business office for New Lifestyles.

PHW Will Trim Your Bushes

Do you have some evergreen trees and bushes you need trimmed? PHW volunteers will be happy to trim them for you, and we’ll even take away the clippings! How is this possible? PHW needs fresh greenery to sell at our Bough and Dough Shop and to decorate the homes for the Holiday House Tour. This is a major part of our fundraising efforts for the Holiday House Tour and a way we can give back to the community with some sweat equity. We are especially looking for:

Holly with berries
Nandina with berries
Magnolia

We will also cut some white pine, spruce, juniper, and other evergreens, as well as boxwood, for the Bough and Dough Shop. If you have some of these types of trees and bushes that could use a trim, contact PHW at 540-667-3577 or phwi@verizon.net and leave your name, address, and contact information.

Click here to see the Holiday House Tour 2012 brochure (PDF).
Click here for a map of the Holiday House Tour 2012 sites (JPEG).

Today’s post brought to you by

Holiday House Tour printing sponsor The Final Yard. Thank you for your support!

Volunteers Needed for Holiday House Tour

We are in need of a few more volunteers for the 2012 House Tour. Here’s how you can help:

Shop helpers at the Bough and Dough Shop. Helpers are needed indoors as cashiers/gofers both Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9 at the Winchester Little Theatre. Saturday hours are 10AM-5PM; Sunday hours are noon-5PM. We are looking for at least one helper on Saturday and at least two for Sunday.

Docents for Saturday evening, December 8, from 6-9 PM. Docents guide visitors through the homes and point out interesting features using a prepared script. You may also be asked to check tickets. We are looking for approximately six docents for Saturday evening.

Can you help? Contact PHW at 540-667-3577 or phwi@verizon.net to be given an assignment.

Click here to see the Holiday House Tour 2012 brochure (PDF).
Click here for a map of the Holiday House Tour 2012 sites (JPEG).

Today’s post brought to you by

Holiday House Tour sponsor OakCrest Companies. Thank you for your support!

House Tour Tickets by Mail

I hope everyone had a safe and fun day shopping for Black Friday sales. If you ran out of energy before you got your Holiday House Tour tickets at Kimberly’s, the Winchester Book Gallery, or The Final Yard, no worries! You can shop for them by mail.

The form is included in the Holiday House Tour brochure, which was mailed today. Look for it in your mailbox soon! Not on our mailing list? Contact PHW at 540-667-3577 or phwi@verizon.net to be added.

Click here to see the Holiday House Tour 2012 brochure (PDF).
Click here for a map of the Holiday House Tour 2012 sites (JPEG).

Today’s post brought to you by

Holiday House Tour sponsor Union First Market Bank. Thank you for your support!

Looking to Buy Holiday House Tour Tickets?

Look no further! Tickets for the 2012 tour are in hand and ready to be sold at Kimberly’s, the Winchester Book Gallery, The Final Yard, and right here:

PHW Holiday House Tour 2012 Preview Party Tickets for Saturday, December 8, 6-9 PM
Preview Party tickets are also valid on Sunday, December 9, 1-5 PM
$50/adult Discount available for PHW members; please contact PHW for more information.

PHW Holiday House Tour 2012 Advance Daylight Tickets for Sunday, December 9, 1-5 PM ONLY
$20/adult, $6/child 12 and under; children under 6 are free.

Click here to see the Holiday House Tour 2012 brochure (PDF).
Click here for a map of the Holiday House Tour 2012 sites (JPEG).

Today’s post brought to you by

Holiday House Tour sponsor The Cake Boutique. Thank you for your support!

Get Ready for Holiday House Tour 2012

It’s that time of the year again – Preservation of Historic Winchester is preparing for our major fundraising event, the Holiday House Tour. Homes, commercial spaces, and a church will be showing off the theme of “Traditions and Transformations” for 2012.

The Bough and Dough Shop will be held at the Winchester Little Theatre, 315 West Boscawen Street. The Shop will be open December 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and December 9 from noon-5 p.m. Stop by for some holiday shopping and complimentary hot drinks!

Join us on Saturday, December 8 for the special kickoff event, the Candlelight Tour and the Preview Party at 15 South Washington Street from 6-9 p.m.. The daylight tours continue on Sunday, December 9 from 1-5 p.m.

Advance tickets will be available for purchase November 15 at Kimberly’s, the Winchester Book Gallery, The Final Yard, as well as the PHW office and online at www.phwi.org. Candlelight Tour and Preview Party tickets are regularly $50, $40 for PHW members. Daylight tour tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

Today’s post brought to you by

Major Holiday House Tour sponsor The Adams Companies. Thank you for your support!

Memberfest Raffle Winners

If you weren’t on hand for the drawing at the end of the night for Memberfest, here’s the rundown:

Welcome Pack Prizes (Beside a Valley Road, The Impossible Task, $25 gift certificate to the Total Image and Workingman’s Store, quilt block notecards, certificate for two Holiday House Tour tickets, and a pineapple welcome pin) – Angela Duncan

Apple Pack Prizes (Three limited edition apple sculptures depicting the Frederick County Courthouse, Abram’s Delight, and Glen Burnie, with matching stands, and also the “Follow the Apple Trail” driving tour and a golden apple pin) – Tina Scully

Winchester Pack Prizes (Decorative plate of the Kurtz Building, three packs of assorted notecards, certificate for two Holiday House Tour Tickets, and one downtown Winchester pin) – Jessica Watson and Barbara Laidlaw

PHW Pack Prizes (Limestone, Sycamores, and Architecture, lap afghan, three packs of PHW notecards, certificate for two Holiday House Tour tickets, and one downtown Winchester pin) – Robbie Marchant

Basket Items (Gift certificate/wine tasting for 4 at Kindred Pointe Winery, red and white wine from Williamsburg Winery, four wine glasses, truffles, marble wine cork, dip mixes, napkins, and wine light) – Justin Hoppes

Crate Items (Eugene Smith framed Apple Blossom poster, apple crate, apple wine, pie plate, apple pie filling, apple cranberry spread, apple cookbook, apple candles, dip mix, collectible Apple Blossom Coke bottles) – Sandy Pumphrey

Door Table (Table made from reclaimed historic wood from three buildings in the Winchester Historic District) – Donna Downing

Congratulations to our raffle winners! If you didn’t get lucky this time, look for more events like this in the future. You never know what we might raffle off next!

Memberfest Success!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by Memberfest on Friday! We had a full house at Eugene B. Smith’s Gallery for the party. The “Vanished Winchester” slideshow was quite a hit; we hope you were able to see that while you were out and about for First Friday. We are also so pleased at all the members who joined — or rejoined — PHW at the event. We could not be a working organization without all of our members. Thank you for your support!

If you are working on the membership signup contest, the competition is getting stiff! Our current leader has signed up 12 members so far with the help of the Memberfest party. You have until December 7 to meet or beat that number to be in the running for the grand prize of a framed Beyer print or $300 in store credit to the Eugene B. Smith Gallery.

Concerning the raffle prizes, including the special table made from reclaimed wood, a little over 400 raffle tickets were sold at the event. We are now working on getting the prizes ready to go to the lucky winners. Look for another post when all the winners have been notified!

The Samuel Noakes House, Part 17

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, and part 16.

Last time at the Noakes house, we saw some interior work. This time, we take a look at some of the exterior changes to the building. The Braddock Street side has a new cornice and new paint scheme. There are other exterior changes taking place as well. The porch facing Cork Street has had the access stairs removed from the east side, and new tread installed to the west. The wall has been patched from where the old meter stack was removed, and drainage has been worked on at the entrance to the former barbershop. You can tell the exterior looks almost complete now.

The new red paint scheme on Braddock Street
The replicated cornice goes up
Additional exterior details, including the porch stairs, patio, walkway, and other minor touches.