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Colonial tour guides will be giving tours of the mayor’s residence, two churches and three bed and breakfasts in the historic district as the Town of Washington celebrates its 10th annual Colonial Christmas Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 9, with merchants and townspeople decorating the town with fresh greens and festive garlands.
There will be walking tours as well as horse-drawn wagon tours throughout the day, all with tour guides giving the history of the town George Washington laid out in 1749 as a young surveyor. There is also a special candlelit tour at 5 p.m.
The day-long Christmas festivities, which include strolling colonial carolers, a children’s cookie bake and storytelling at The Middleton Inn, a children’s ornament making workshop at the Middle Street Gallery, colonial food and a performance of “The Nutcracker” at The Theatre.
Colonial Christmas is sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community and the Washington Business Council. Visitors can begin the day at the information booth on Gay Street at 11 a.m.
Mount Prospect, a grand Victorian-Italianate red brick residence built in 1850, is one of the homes featured during the tour. It sits on a knoll on the west side of Main Street overlooking the town and the mountains to the west. It is the home of Col. and Mrs. Stewart Willis, whose extensive restoration efforts produced a showpiece featured in Mid-Atlantic Country magazine in 1988.
Col. Willis is the mayor of the town of Washington. He and his wife. Eve, an interior designer, own and operate Rare Finds and Rare Finds II, antique and gift stores in Washington and Sperryville respectively.
Other highlights of the tour include visits to two churches on Gay Street — Trinity Episcopal Chrucgh and the Washington Baptist Chruch — and three bed and breakfasts. They are the Foster-Harris House, owned by Phyllis Marriott; The Gay Street Inn, owned by Robin and Donna Kevis, and The Middleton Inn, owned
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