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By Helen Williams
Special to the Rappahannock News
A grand and gracious manor house, a tiny old log cabin, and a new house filled with treasures, are the choices for the 2004 House Tour sponsored by the Episcopal Churchwomen of IVinity Church in Washington.
This annual October event and fund-raiser is in its 48th year, and these houses are among more than 130 that have been opened to the public since 1956.
The House Tour, combined with the sale of dried flower arrangements, is the chief funraiser of, the ECW, and its proceeds fund various charities both in and outside the community.
The three houses, along with historic Middleton Inn as the Tea House, will be open the weekend of Oct. 16 and 17, and visitors are expected from all the neighboring counties as well as from Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia.
September Song
The oldest house, rebuilt in 1820 after the original had burned, is September Song, home of Theodore and Renate Chapman. It sits on land granted to the Browning family by Lord Fairfax in 1735 and owned by that family until the 20th century. The present owners, who have used the home as a retreat facility, count among their ancestors a William Chapman, who rode with Colonel John Mosby during the Civil War. Mosby himself is said to have spent the night in a barn (now demolished) on the property.
Centuries old trees, notably a large and leafy linden, surround the white painted brick
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