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By Helen Williams
Special to the Rappahannock News
Three houses in Amissville, all along Hinson’s Ford Road, have been chosen for the annual House Tour sponsored by the women of Trinity Episcopal Church in conjunction with their dried flower sale in October.
“Bunree,” owned by Aileen Laing, granddaughter of the original owners, The Dickey House, built and owned by Gary and Marlene Dickey, and “The Deep Woods” named before it was built by the son of the owners, Bud and Doris Rowzie, will delight and enchant their viewers this fall.
Judy Tole, chairperson of the House Selection Committee, always has tried to group the houses in the same area of the county for a given year, but never, she says, “have I been able to get them all along one road—and a dead-end road at that.”
Oct. 18 and 19 have been scheduled for the 47th annual celebration of the event, a major fundraiser for the Episcopal Church Women (ECW), although the event uses the talents and contributions of the entire community over a period of more than six months. Choosing the homes that will be showcased comes first, though.
Viewing the homes and enjoying tea at the Middleton Inn in Washington is a fall ritual in the county.
“Bunree”, built in the 1920s by William and Eileen Laing on land they bought because it reminded them of their native Ireland, is the oldest of the three houses. It was originally built as a summer house, but wings on each side and heating was added within a few years.
Their granddaughter, Aileen Laing, has returned to live in her old home after retiring as a professor of Art History at Sweet Briar. She cherishes both the history of the house as well as its memory-laden contents. Horses, and those who loved them, rode them and trained them set the tone of the decor, from portraits of Troublemaker, who won the Maryland Hunt Cup in 1932 with Uncle Noel Laing as jockey, to silver trophies and other memorabilia.
The house today is furnished
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