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With less than two weeks to go, activity is high at the Trinity Episcopal Church Parish Hall in historic Washington, Virginia where the Churchwomen of Bromfield Parish are putting together the arrangements to be offered for sale at the 32nd Annual Rappahannock House Tour and Dried Flower Sale. This event is slated for Saturday, Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday the 16 from 1-5 p.m. Tickets for the event will be on sale at the Trinity Parish Hall and the tour houses; $6 for three houses and tea and $2.5Q for an individual house.
Although there will be hundreds of arrangements offered at this increasingly popular sale, it is suggested that those who want a lovely center-piece for the Thanksgiving table, one for Christmas dinner or a different kind of Christmas gift, arrive and choose early. After making your selection, take time to tour the homes open this weekend, a tour spokesman suggested.
One of these homes. Mount Prospect, is just a short walk, or shorter drive, south of the Parish Hall off Main Street on the west. There on a small knoll with 360 degree views of Washington and the surrounding mountains and fields is the lovely red brick Vietorian-Italianate residence of Col. and Mrs. Stewart Willis. The house was built in 1850, with brick produced on the property, by the Jordan family. It is surrounded and shaded by large oaks, maples and walnuts making its high-ceilinged rooms, typical of the period, a cool retreat in the hot summer.
In 1039 the house became the property of Arthur and Emily Miller; it had been deserted and in disrepair and the Millers began restoration, adding baths and a kitchen. The original smooth, heartpine floors were retained.
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