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By Helen Williams
Special to the Rappahannock News
“Seaway House” is the name of another of the three houses slated for this year’s House Tour in October.
This uniquely designed home, named Southern Living’s 2003 House of the Year, is a “new take on a farmhouse.” Sitting on 20 acres, it was purchased about 15 years ago by owners RuSs and Polly Scoville. But their relationship with Rappahannock goes back much further, almost 30 years, when Russ served on the Board of the Virginia Association of Biologic Farmers (VABF) with Lyt Wood, Diana Bird and Richard Abell.
When the Scovilles were ready to retire, they had a 'Community and a property that was already well known .to them. The architects were Reader and Swartz, a husband and wife team from Winchester. The Scovilles chose , Blue Ridge Timberwrights (BRT), from Christiansburg, whose house and designs they admired, to work with them on the house of their dreams. The plans included using 130year-old Douglas fir timbers the BRT had salvaged as the structure of the home.
The result is a two-story, three level home whose interior spaces are dominated by the beautiful wooden beams, once afloat in the St. Lawrence Seaway as floating “cribbage” designed to keep logs from the shipping channels, and now providing both the structure and the soaring beauty of the interiors.
fyluch of the actual construction work was done by L.G. Zindel, Inc of Amissville. Complementing the design and construction work are the family treasures and artifacts from both families: Russ’s from Ogden Utah, and Polly’s from Burlington, New Jersey; added to that are the mementos of two careers that began in the Peace Corps in Africa, and ended in a busy life in the
If you go
The 50th annual Dried
Flower Sale and House
Tour, sponsored by the
Episcopal Church
Women of Trinity
Church in Washington,
is set for October 21
and 22. The Tour
Headquarters and
Flower Sale are at the
Parish Hall in the Town
of Washington. Tickets
for all the Tour Houses
are available there, as
well as at each
individual house. No
tickets are sold before
the day of the Tour.
Cost is $20 to see all
three houses, and
includes tea. Tickets for
an individual house are
set at $10.00. Tea is
available both days,
served from 2-5 p.m. at
Middleton Inn, an
historic nineteenth
century home in the
Town of Washington.
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