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Williamsburg Architect in residence for many years will present illustrated stories on some of Virginia’s great homes as part of the program planned by the Rappahannock Historical Society to celebrate the 133rd birthday of Rappahannock, which will fall on Tuesday, February 8. Mr. Wai ter M. Macomber, now living in Arlington, was the principal authority on the architectual restoration of Williamsburg. He has graciously consented to come to Washington, Virginia at the request of the Historical Society to tell us of his adventures among the grand homes he has known throughout Virginia. . Besides Williamsburg, Mr. Macomber has a long list of noted restorations to his credit. It was Mr. Macomber who moved The Lindens, the handsome building constructed in 1754 in Danvers, Mass., to 2401 Kalorama Rd., D. G. now a show place. He restored the Rising Sun Tavern in Fredericksburg, and James Monroe’s Office and Library in the same place. The rebuilding of Patrick Henry's home in Ashland was his work too. He did Wheatland, the Home of President James Buchanan in Lancaster, Pa., Tate House, Portland,* Maine, and Locust Grove, Louisville, Ky. These are only a few of the homes Mr. Macomber has been identified with during the past thirty years. Our speaker is now and has been for 25 years Architect for Restoration at Mount Vernon, under whose direction a long range plan for restoration of the Mansion and all dependencies has been in prog* ress. For the past seven years he
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