{"id":3016,"date":"2015-11-18T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2015-11-16T16:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:09:57","slug":"holiday-house-tour-2015-530-amherst-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Holiday House Tour 2015: 530 Amherst Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

530 Amherst Street
\nThe Office of Preservation of Historic Winchester<\/b>
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The Hexagon House, owned and maintained by the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, has been the location of Preservation of Historic Winchester\u2019s office since 2006. This six-sided Italianate villa was constructed between 1871-1874 by James W. Burgess, a local furniture and casket dealer. <\/p>\n

Burgess listed the Hexagon House for sale in the Winchester News<\/i> in September of 1873. It was advertised as \u201cone of the most convenient and substantial new brick dwellings in the valley\u201d with a basement cistern, spacious rooms, and multiple closets. It is the only known hexagonal house built in Virginia, and one of only a dozen across the United States. The MSV purchased the property in 1985 and restored the building to its 1870s appearance. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.<\/p>\n

The PHW Office on the first floor is furnished with Henkel-Harris furniture, maps of Winchester, and artwork relating to Winchester\u2019s architecture and the history of PHW.<\/p>\n

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Daylight Tickets<\/h3>\n

Tickets valid for Daylight Tours on Sunday, December 6.
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530 Amherst Street The Office of Preservation of Historic Winchester The Hexagon House, owned and maintained by the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, has been the location of Preservation of Historic Winchester\u2019s office since 2006. This six-sided Italianate villa was constructed between 1871-1874 by James W. Burgess, a local furniture and casket dealer. Burgess listed … Continue reading Holiday House Tour 2015: 530 Amherst Street<\/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":[29,17],"tags":[63,51],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser","category-holiday-house-tour","tag-fundraiser","tag-holiday-house-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}