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The 33rd annual Rappahannock House Tour and Dried Flower Sale will be held Saturday and Sunday Oct. 21 and 22.
Over the years this event, sponsored by the Churchwomen of Bromfield Parish, has been a popular highlight of the fall season in Rappahannock County. Headquarters as in the past years will be the Parish Hall of Trinity Episcopal Church in historic Washington.
Three homes will be open for viewing from 11 a. m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Block tickets will be on sale for $6 and for individual homes for $2.50; the former includes tea which will be served at Greenfield off U.S. 211 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. both afternoons. Box lunches will be available from the ladies of Washington First Baptist Church on both days at tour headquarters.
In addition, offered for sale at the Parish Hall will be hundreds of dried flower arrangements prepared by the Bromfield Churchwomen, members of the Rappahannock County Garden Club and others with a flowery and artistic bent.
Greenfield is located one mile west of Washington on the south .side of U.S. 211. The origins of the estate go back to a June 1735 grant by Lord Fairfax to Francis Browning, who built here and which house later burned down.
It was rebuilt in 1820 by Willis Browning, of brick, now painted white, made on the estate. It is surrounded by several very old hickories, maples, walnuts as well as a large linden and gingko tree.
Approximately 50 feet from the north entrance is a stile or carriage dock, one of the few still to be seen in the county. Here ladies could ride up to the stile, dismount easily from their horse or carriage and walk up to the lovely house to take part in the dances and other affairs for which Greenfield was famous.
Owners and residents of Greenfield figured prominently in our history. Charles Browning (1749-1839) was a captain in the Revolution, another was a major who took part in actions at Valley Forge and Yorktown; during the Civil War General Butler of South Carlina and Colonel John S. Mosby spent time here. Justice George L. Browning of the Virginia Supreme Court was the last of Browning line to be bom here.
Residents other than the Brownings included West, Menefee and Hicks, grandparents and greatgrandparents of many local residents. Headstones in a small family burial plot on the property memorialize these.
Two windows in Trinity Church in Washington also commemorate Isabella West and Isabella Browning Lewis.
In 1987 the property was bought by Ted and Renate Chapman, formerly of Bethesda, Maryland. Mr. Chapman w’ho is retired from the Export-Import Bank, is also the great grandson of William Chapman of Luray, who rode with Colonel Mosby.
The Chapmans have continued the restoration of the house and outbuildings. The wide entrance hall on the west is bright and cheerful, the lovely plaster medallions on its high walls are again clear and sharp, the staircase walls are decorated with many drawings by Mrs. Chapman’s Viennese artist father Eugen Wagner.
To the left and right of the entry hall are the living room and dining room, all with original heart pine flooring finished in a warm reddish
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