{"id":216,"date":"2010-04-08T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-04-08T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:11:18","slug":"two-meetings-in-may-for-preservation-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Two Meetings in May for Preservation Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Northern Shenandoah Valley Branch of Preservation Virginia will have two meetings in May 2010.\u00a0 The first meeting is the rescheduled winter quarter meeting that was cancelled due to the snow.\u00a0 The second meeting is the regular spring quarter meeting.<\/p>\n

The meetings will be at Springsbury Farm<\/strong> in Clarke County on May 2, 2010,\u00a0and at the Hottel-Keller Homestead<\/strong> in Shenandoah County on May 16, 2010.\u00a0\u00a0 These sites, located in the northern and southern parts of the NSV Branch territory, represent two very different examples of settlement in the Shenandoah Valley.\u00a0 Both sites are in the development stage with on-going research and planning efforts for the long-term preservation and public interpretation of historic resources.\u00a0 The NSV Branch is honored to offer you the rare opportunity to see these properties and to witness historic preservation in action.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, May 2, 2010<\/strong> at 3:00 p.m.<\/strong>
\nSpringsbury Farm,<\/strong> Clarke County<\/strong><\/p>\n

Springsbury Farm and the adjacent Lands End property are historic plantations along the Shenandoah River, now owned by Casey Trees.\u00a0 Following a short business meeting, architectural historian Maral Kalbian will present the results of her recent research on the history of the property and then lead a tour of the property. Light refreshments will be served following the tour.\u00a0 Admission to this meeting is free for Preservation Virginia members and $10 for non-members.\u00a0 The admission fee will be credited towards purchase of an annual membership in Preservation Virginia, for those wishing to join. Membership forms will be available.<\/p>\n

Located along the Shenandoah River three miles southeast of Berryville, Springsbury is one of the premier country estates in the region.\u00a0 At its core is a late-18th<\/sup>-century dwelling that was greatly enlarged in 1937 after designs by renowned Boston architects Perry, Shaw & Hepburn.\u00a0 Best known for their work at Colonial Williamsburg, they transformed the somewhat plain dwelling into a sprawling Georgian Colonial Revival-style mansion. Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of America\u2019s most prominent woman landscape architects, designed the elaborate gardens and Alfred Hopkins created the stable complex.\u00a0 In 2008, Springsbury Farm and an adjacent parcel known as Lands End, totaling 730 acres, were donated to Casey Trees<\/strong> by philanthropist Betty Brown Casey.\u00a0 Casey Tree is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization dedicated to restoring, enhancing and protecting the tree canopy of the Nation’s Capital. \u00a0The organization\u2019s future plans for Springsbury Farm are under study.<\/p>\n

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Directions to Springsbury Farm from downtown Berryville:<\/strong> Take East Main Street to John Enders Boulevard.\u00a0 Turn right onto John Enders Boulevard.\u00a0 Turn left onto Springsbury Farm Road.\u00a0 Continue on Springsbury Farm Road to its end at Springsbury Lane.\u00a0 Go down the hill and follow the signs to the main house where the meeting will take place.<\/p>\n

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\nMay 16, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
\nHottel-Keller Homestead, Shenandoah County<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the meeting, Chester Ramey, a board member of Hottel-Keller Memorial, Inc., will talk about the history of the farm and the Hottel and Keller families that settled it beginning in the late 1740s, and the organization\u2019s plans for the development of their Shenandoah Germanic Heritage Museum<\/strong>.\u00a0 Following the presentation, tours of the property will be offered.\u00a0 Admission is free.<\/p>\n

At 3:00 p.m., the Homestead will host an open house for the public, as well as those planning and participating in their upcoming first annual Germanic heritage festival, GermanFest, to be held on Saturday, September 25th<\/sup>, 2010.\u00a0 For more information about GermanFest, please visit www.germanfestva.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Hottel-Keller Homestead property was purchased by Johannes Hottel in a land grant from Lord Fairfax in 1750.\u00a0 Hottel and his family immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1732 from the Rhineland-Pfalz region of Germany.\u00a0 In the early 1740s, his two oldest sons, Charles and George, traveled to Virginia, searching for suitable farmland.\u00a0 Liking what they found in the Shenandoah Valley, Charles and George returned to Pennsylvania and persuaded their father and their sister and her husband, Barbara Hottel Keller and George Keller, to join them.\u00a0 The families settled on the land and began farming it even before receiving the land grant from Lord Fairfax.\u00a0 Today, the property comprises 392 acres and is owned by Hottel-Keller Memorial, Inc., which was given to them in 1984, by William J. Keller, Jr., the last family member to own it.\u00a0 For more information about Hottel-Keller Memorial, Inc., please visit www.hottelkeller.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Directions to the Hottel-Keller Homestead:<\/strong> Traveling either north or south on I-81, take Exit 291, Mount Olive Road (VA Hwy 651) west.\u00a0 Mount Olive Road ends at Back Road (VA Hwy 623).\u00a0 Turn left (south) on Back Road.\u00a0 The Homestead will be approximately 0.7 miles on the right.\u00a0 Stone pillars with wrought iron fencing mark the entrance to the Homestead. Then follow signage to the George Hottel homesite .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Northern Shenandoah Valley Branch of Preservation Virginia will have two meetings in May 2010.\u00a0 The first meeting is the rescheduled winter quarter meeting that was cancelled due to the snow.\u00a0 The second meeting is the regular spring quarter meeting. The meetings will be at Springsbury Farm in Clarke County on May 2, 2010,\u00a0and at … Continue reading Two Meetings in May for Preservation Virginia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,14],"tags":[39,55,48],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-events","category-preservation-virginia","category-tours","tag-informational-events","tag-preservation-virginia","tag-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}