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The 28th Annual Rappahannock County House Tour and Dried Flower Sale will be held October 20 and 21 in Washington, Virginia. Homes will be open from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Headquarters for the tour and dried flower sale will be the Parish Hall of Trinity Episcopal Church in historic Washington.
This popular event, held every year during the height of the fall color season in the hunt country of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is presented by the Churchwomen of Bromfield Parish. Box lunches provided by the women of Washington First Baptist Church will be available both days at Trinity.
Houses to be shown are representative of both the old and contemporary.
“Greenoch Farm,” home of Jane and Maurice G. Herndon, formerly of Alexandria and Washington, D.C. where Mr. Herndon was a lobbyist, is approximately 1.5 miles west of Sperryville, off Route 211. It was built in the 1950’s by the Herndons as a retreat from Washington pressures and expanded to its present 2,800 square feet in the 1970’s.
The colors of house and outbuildings, the design of the landscaping blend in with the forest and contours of Oventop Mountain on which Greenoch is situated. From here, there is a magnificent view of FT Valley toward Culpeper.
Greenoch boasts a variety of heirlooms and mementos, antiques and paintings gathered by the Herndons during their almost fifty years of marriage. The center of the house is the living room over whose stone fireplace is an unusual, framed “captain’s eagle” embroidered on black Chinese silk by a sailor on the clipper ship “Glory of the Seas” in 1835.
The room contains a steeple clock predating 1814 and a portrait by Rembrandt Peale of Mr. Herndon’s great, great, great grandfather, Jones Green of Greenoch in Culpeper County, a friend of Thomas Jefferson. The portrait hangs over Jones Green’s desk which reputedly held the battle maps of Confederate Colonel John Moeby when he operated along the railroad in the Remington area. The many family coats of arms in the home and the prize-winning bust of Rev. Dr. ZeBarney Philips, former Chaplain of the Senate are by Mr. Herndon’s aunt, Janet Meetze.
The tone of Greenoch is one of informality, friendliness and relaxation which, according to the Herndons, is all part of the friendly ambience of Rappahannock County.
“Clifton” just outside Flint Hill on Rt. 729, is owned by Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Rodgers, their daughter, Karan and her children. Formerly from Austin, Texas, Dr. Rodgers retired from the USDA as an epidemiologist in 1973 when the Rodgers began restoration of this fine old stone house. Clifton, one of the oldest houses, in the area, begun about 1775 as one of seven “sister houses” built between then and 1780, traces its origins back to 1675 when William Deatherage and his wife, Susan Eastham, from Clifton, England built a log cabin here. The lovely, spacious, great room was added in 1982. With this addition the rooms of the
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