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Geometric Beauty
A Lake Anna modern is all angular elegance on a lakeside peninsula. By Valerie Hubbard • Photography by Maxwell MacKenzie and Paul Warchol
May 1, 2009 by Valerie Hubbard in Inside (3 Comments)
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Master Plants
The Beautiful Gardens program is designed to spur economic growth in southern Virginia through the discovery and promotion of new plant varieties. The first offspring—nine well-tested hybrids—are now hitting the market. By Ann Wright
Jun 5, 2009 by Ann Wright in Outside
A Gentleman’s Guide to Vegetables
Williamsburg’s early American nursery replicates an 18th-century kitchen garden. Though labor was scarce and summers were brutal, colonists found timeless techniques for growing a variety of produce. By Paula Steers Brown
Jul 20, 2009 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
Mansion with a Motto
Among the homes on Richmond's Westover Avenue is a yellow Indiana brick home that, with its grand foyer and expansive garden, is a beautiful residential retreat. But it wasn’t always so: For nearly 30 years, the house was a district headquarters for a revered U.S. group, which turned an elegant front parlor into a Trading Post.
Jul 31, 2009 by Valerie Hubbard in Inside
Buxom Beauties
What sleeps in its first year, creeps in its second and leaps to life in its third? It’s the peony—an old-fashioned flower that’s durable, spectacular and often unpredictable. By Paula Steers Brown
Jul 31, 2009 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
Back to Nature
Rivergate, on a bluff overlooking the James River near Lynchburg, is a Prairie-style home that echoes many of the principles espoused by Frank Lloyd Wright—natural materials, an open floor plan, integration with nature. It’s also a peaceful “escape.” By Amanda Stark-Rankins • Photography by Philip Beaurline • Styling by Richard Stone
Sep 4, 2009 by Amanda Stark-Rankins in Inside (1 Comments)
Presidential Frame
Sherwood Forest, the longest frame house in America, was owned by the country’s 10th president, John Tyler. Today, the former president’s grandson Harrison Tyler and his wife, Payne, live in the house, having meticulously restored it to its 19th-century glory. Photography by Adam Ewing • Styling by Bill Sorrell
Sep 22, 2009 by Ann Wright in Inside
Kip Dawkins
What’s New Is Old Again
Compass Pointe is a rustic—and Romanesque—house on the water in Virginia Beach. Photography by Kip Dawkins • Styling by Bill Sorrell
Sep 23, 2009 by Ann Wright in Inside
Stacey Evans
Girls’ Night Out(side)
At Nancy Ross Hugo’s Flower Camp, students learn the art of floral arranging, commune with one another and get a creative nudge on how to spot beautiful design elements underfoot. Photography By Stacey Evans
Sep 30, 2009 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
Nature, History, Harmony
Kendale, a 2,500-acre estate on the Rappahannock River, is a tranquil refuge with meadows, cornfields and flowers of every hue surrounding a modernized family farmhouse. Photography by Walter Smalling & Roger Foley
Oct 6, 2009 by Anne-Ryan Heatwole in Inside
Roger Foley
Through the Gates
Since its restoration, Lynchburg's Old City Cemetery has become one of the most popular spots in the city—a parklike expanse with some 20,000 graves, five museums and gardens that attract families of the deceased and tourists alike. Photography by Roger Foley
Oct 13, 2009 by Bland Crowder in Outside
Gwenaël Berthy
Safe Harbor
A lighthouse home in Urbanna is both fun and beautiful, with 360-degree views, an impressive collection of furniture and art—and a working 650-pound light once stationed at the entrance to Perth Harbor in Australia. Photography by Gwenaël Berthy • Styling by Richard Stone
Nov 10, 2009 by Valerie Hubbard in Inside
Tyler Darden
Soul-Warming Fruit
Hard to find and tricky to eat, the persimmon is deeply connected to rustic holiday food traditions. Head for fields and woodlands—and look up! Photography by Tyler Darden
Nov 17, 2009 by Tracey Crehan Gerlach in Outside (2 Comments)
Patricia Lyons
Visions of Sugarplums
Topiaries add live ornamentation to your lively holiday decor.
Dec 2, 2009 by Paula Steers Brown in Inside
Kip Dawkins
Old Glory
Restoring the grandeur of an antebellum compound takes labor, money and love.
Dec 14, 2009 by Joan Tupponce in Inside (2 Comments)
Kip Dawkins
A Groovy Greek Revival
Smithsonia, a brick manse in Fredericksburg, has been a girls’ orphanage, a wartime hospital and more. Now it’s a chic mix of old world and new—fitting décor for the fashionable lady of the house.
Jan 12, 2010 by Neely Barnwell Dykshorn in Inside
Kip Dawkins
Mix and Match
The Federal-style home in the middle of Carrington Row was considered sleek and modern when it was built in 1818—and, thanks to its current owner, it’s still very much so today.
Mar 3, 2010 by Erin Parkhurst in Inside
Kip Dawkins
Urban Salon
More than 250 homes statewide will be open for Historic Garden Week April 17-25—including the 1861 Yarbrough house in Richmond's Church Hill. By design “neither nicer nor worse than” the identical house next door, today it is fully restored, full of natural light—and without a single blade of grass.
Mar 3, 2010 by Neely Barnwell Dykshorn in Inside
Roger Foley
The Vantage and the Vista
Over the last decade, an Orange County couple has created an ambitious, spectacular garden with English, French and Italian influences. But the strongest presence of all is the Virginia countryside beyond.
Apr 5, 2010 by Christine Ennulat in Outside (2 Comments)
Courtesy of the Garden Club of Virginia
Ladies Who Launch
The Garden Club of Virginia gets things done. For nearly eight decades, its Historic Garden Week has helped to revive properties both celebrated and forgotten.
Apr 14, 2010 by Christine Ennulat in Outside
Roger Foley
Cast-Iron Beauty
Once spurned by discriminating gardeners for being “too easy,” sturdy daylilies are enjoying a surge of popularity thanks to new “everblooming” varieties.
Apr 29, 2010 by Paula Steers Brown in Outside
Mark Atkinson
Grand, with Sand
The Cooke-Royster “cottage,” on the North End of Virginia Beach, has been a landmark for strollers and sailors for almost 100 years. A meticulous renovation has readied this expansive Arts and Crafts-style house for another century.
May 13, 2010 by Ann Wright in Inside (1 Comments)
Kip Dawkins
Timeless Garden Party
If you could peek into Dustin Hoffman’s backyard, you might see furniture made by the Richmond firm McKinnon and Harris, whose products are both functional and inspired. (Originally published in the August 2008 Issue)
Jul 6, 2010 by Lisa Antonelli Bacon in Outside
Roger Foley
Hallowed Ground
A succession of families has gotten their hands dirty at Oak Hill Farm, the estate of James Monroe, but it fell to the current owners to turn 3.5 acres of sprawling potential into a showplace.
Jul 14, 2010 by Christine Ennulat in Verdant
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.
Jul 20, 2010 by Kendra Hamilton in Outside (6 Comments)