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Springtime at Tuckahoe
The beloved boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson blooms fresh each year in spring. Paula Steers Brown visits a private farm with a very public mission. more »
Mar 10, 2011 by Paula Steers Brown in Verdant
Yesterday's Roses Today
There are roses and then there are heirloom roses. We recommend a few varieties worthy of the likes of Mary Washington and Empress Josephine. These roses will take you back in time. more »
Mar 9, 2011 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
Skunk Cabbage
Plant heats up snow more »
Feb 3, 2011 by Katharine Fontaine Heath in Outside (1 Comments)
New World Cotswold
Alderley estate in Great Falls is an impressive stone-and-stucco version of an English cottage—subtle and exquisite. more »
Jan 31, 2011 by Daisy Ridgway Khalifa in Home & Garden
Winter Bloomer
There's no better plant for the cold months than our friends, the camellias. more »
Jan 28, 2011 by Ann Wright in Outside
The Art of Zen
Mindful gardening yields a serene retreat in Hanover. Walk slowly, and contemplate. more »
Jan 21, 2011 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
Tidewater Classic
Remembering architect Lewis A. Rightmier more »
Jan 20, 2011 by Ann Wright in Home & Garden
Contemporary Revival
The Virginia Beach house Shibui still echoes with the touch of architect Lewis Rightmier. more »
Jan 19, 2011 by Ann Wright in Inside
Heirloom Seeds
Deep winter is the best time to plan for the spring season. And what better to look forward to than an heirloom garden? more »
Jan 18, 2011 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
A Pioneer Craftsman
Charles McRaven is an old-fashioned builder more »
Jan 12, 2011 by Richard Ernsberger Jr. in Home & Garden (1 Comments)
A Tudor Showcase
It took four years and a few bidding wars with luminaries like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rod Stewart to get Dover Hall furnished. The result is an astounding collection of period art and antiques. more »
Jan 10, 2011 by Richard Ernsberger Jr. in Inside
Three Parts Imitation, One Part Flattery
Emerald Hill is a new and regal estate modeled on Virginia’s most famous homes. more »
Dec 28, 2010 by Richard Ernsberger Jr. in Home & Garden (1 Comments)
Affordable Housing
The Pope-Leighey House in Alexandria is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian homes, and showcases his democratic nature. more »
Dec 20, 2010 by Sarah Sargent in Inside (1 Comments)
Kip Dawkins
Rough & Ready
Randleston Farm is an Arts and Crafts manor house first built about 90 years ago by the owner of New York’s Savoy-Plaza Hotel. Jim and Melinda Carter bought the estate about a decade ago and invoked its unique and masculine charm. more »
Dec 2, 2010 by Kendra Hamilton in Inside
A Civilized Christmas
In a season notorious for commercialism, Keswick Hall, in the heart of Virginia hunt country, offers a relaxed and resplendent respite from the madness. more »
Nov 15, 2010 by Erin Parkhurst in Verdant
Secrets in the Soil
For years, researchers have been studying Mount Vernon’s Upper Garden, trying to crack a mystery: what plants and flowers did George and Martha Washington plant there in the 1790s? Much remains unclear, but a newly planted Upper Garden, debuting next spring, will offer the most accurate representation yet of what it looked like when the famous couple strolled its paths. more »
Oct 27, 2010 by Catriona Tudor Erler in Outside
Bare Essentials
In Great Falls, a minimalist architect has designed a 5,100 square-foot home, named Graticule, that serves as an “aperture” to the surrounding woodlands. In the architect’s words, the home has a “cadence” expressed through a rhythmic pattern of walls and windows, like a piano’s white keys contrasted against black. more »
Oct 27, 2010 by J. Michael Welton in Inside
A Nimble Thief
Never underestimate the gray squirrel more »
Sep 23, 2010 by Caroline Kettlewell in Outside (1 Comments)
"It's About Living"
Charlotte Moss on her work and Virginia more »
Sep 17, 2010 by Suzanne Gannon in Inside
Roger Foley
"Where You Tend a Rose. . ."
Sandy Helsel's Williamsburg cottage garden, inspired by a trip to the Cotswolds, packs plenty of surprises in a not-so-secret place. more »
Sep 13, 2010 by Ginger Warder in Outside (1 Comments)
Top to Bottomley
After a painstaking restoration effort, a historic Albemarle County manor house has been returned to its 1920s design, when renowned architect William Lawrence Bottomley and landscape architect Charles F. Gillette imbued it with an effortless charm. more »
Sep 7, 2010 by Erin Parkhurst in Inside
Reaping Havoc
A Powhatan-Philadelphia farm experiment goes awry more »
Aug 23, 2010 by Clarke C. Jones in Outside (4 Comments)
Pastoral Pavilion
After years of working abroad, architect Errol Adels dreamed of settling in a country house. He considered Provence but ultimately built a “contemporary version of a neolassical building” amid the rolling hills of Fauquier County. more »
Aug 18, 2010 by Neely Barnwell Dykshorn in Inside (1 Comments)
Patricia Lyons
Living by Hand
Leni Sorensen’s career path has been anything but conventional. As a folk singer, 1960s activist and then farm wife, she had a firsthand look at a few epochal social shifts before moving to Albemarle County and educating herself on how early Americans lived. Now she’s Monticello’s African American research specialist and an advocate for an authentic life. more »
Jul 20, 2010 by Kendra Hamilton in Outside (6 Comments)
