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Powhatan historic homes open for tour Published: September 12, 2010 By Staff Reports Four historic homes and a country church will be open to the public next Saturday for the Powhatan County Historical Society House Tour. “From Bell Road to Ballsville—A Journey in Architectural Diversity” will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sites include: •French’s Tavern, 6100 Old Buckingham Road, owned by the Fred Neurohr family. The 200-year-old manor house was part of a 2,400-acre land grant awarded to Frances Eppes IV in 1730 by King George II. It was inherited by Eppes’ granddaughter, Martha, who married Thomas Jefferson. •Edgemont, 2211 Ballsville Road, owned by the David Kuroski family. Built in 1764, the home was the birthplace of Col. John Singleton Mosby, who served as leader of the famous Mosby’s Raiders during the Civil War. In 1978, the rebuilt and restored house was moved to its present location on another part of the original land grant. •Belmead, 5000 Cartersville Road, owned by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Philip St. George Cocke, a wealthy plantation owner, built this Gothic Revival country house in the 1840s. Designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis, its features include towers, battlements, oriel windows and Tudor arches. At the end of the Civil War, the property became a private school for young black men. The Powhatan Garden Club will have a horticulture exhibit at this site. •Rosemont, 4747 Cosby Road, owned by Swift Williams. A three-story Victorian house by builder C.L. Dodd, it features beautiful mantels and stained-glass windows. •Providence Presbyterian Church, 1950 Ridge Road. Its sanctuary dates to the 1890s. Advance block tickets are $20 and can be purchased through today at The Complete Picture and Central Virginia Bank in Powhatan or at Kathleen’s Fudge, Game Board Antiques and Kathy’s Kopies in Midlothian. After today, block tickets are $25 and can be purchased at each home on tour day. Tickets to individual homes are $8.
For more information, contact Bev Baker at (804) 598-4977 or BVBKT@earthlink.net. |
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Al Cranston of Powhatan, Virginia
Sep. 12, 2010, 03:23 PM
We should have some open houses for some of the newer OLD DOMINION houses too…you know, the ones down Pierce Road where instead of cutting a proper hole in the firewall in the attic, they just used a hammer to bang their way though the wall to put in central air duct. Or how about where the NEW DOMINION builders used hammers to break through wall instead of drilling a nice neat hole to put up a lighting fixture…Suprise home owner !!! Or where they just used a hammer to break through the foundation to run the pipes instead of drilling a hole… Or where they didn’t even bother to bring the walls together, so there’s a nice 1 inch gap between frames in the corner of the house… Or where they didn’t bother to drill a hole for the doorbell circuit, they just thrashed through the wall with a hammer to “get the job done” instead of doing it the correct way… Or where instead of closing up the space where the ceiling comes down to the floor…where you can see straight outside through the 4” x 16” wide openings… Or where they didn’t bother to tie in the rafter with a joist above the 4"x4” opening so it’s hanging on only due to the fact the plywood above it is tied into it… Or where they used 20 inch spacing in the garage, despite the fact there’s an overhead room above the garage which requires 16” OC studs… How about the drywall which was (Get This…) NAILED up instead of screwed in, so now some of the nails are coming back out of the drywall…major league pain to fix…those nails rust in the shower rooms by the way… Actually, we should do a “Fun House” opening so people from miles around can come see the shabby construction NEW DOMINION used… Submit Your Comments Below Commenting is not available in this weblog entry. |
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