Hosted by

Roanoke Valley Garden Club

and Mill Mountain Garden Club

Chairman

Colleen Hamlin (540) 354-2973 roanoke@vagardenweek.org

Co-Chairman

Joyce Jaeger (540) 400-0251 roanoke@vagardenweek.org

Tickets: $30 pp. Available on tour day at the Ronald McDonald House or any tour site.

Advance Tickets: $25 pp. www.vagarden-week.org. By mail, send checks payable to

“Historic Garden Week” to Roanoke Coun-cil of Garden Clubs, 3640 Colonial Ave., Ro-anoke, VA 24018. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Locally until April 28 at Garlands, Yarids, Provisions/RSVP, Roa-noke Council of Garden Clubs, Ronald Mc-Donald House and Townside Gardens.

Box lunches can be pre-ordered through the Taubman Museum at

www.TaubmanMuseum.org/HGW. Addi-tionally, numerous restaurants are within easy walking distance of tour headquarters.

Served from 2 to 4 p.m. in the garden at 449 Canterbury Lane, weather per-

mitting.

Wildflower walk at 8:30 a.m. preced-ing the tour in the Mill Mountain

Wildflower Garden. Meet at the Discovery Center at 2000 J.B. Fishburn Parkway, on top of Mill Mountain. All special activities are complimentary.

Taubman Museum of Art will be showing American Impressionism in

the Garden from February 18 through May 14. A complimentary trolley will be running from HGW headquarters to the Taubman from 1 to 5 p.m. on tour day. www.Taub-manMuseum.org

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Located in southwest Virginia, the Roanoke Valley is set in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Enjoy a complimentary trolley ride to a mountainous neighborhood appropriately named Edgehill. The views of the Valley rival those of the mountain itself. All five private homes open for touring are within an easy walk of each other. Ticket includes light refreshments served in a garden setting from 2 to 4 pm. Nearby are Fincastle Presbyterian Church and the Beale Memorial Garden at Hollins University, both restoration projects of the Garden Club of Virginia using funds from past Historic Garden Week tours.

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Headquarters and trolley: Visitors must take the provided trolley to the tour. Roads will be closed in the tour’s moun-tainous neighborhood and no parking or driving is permitted. The trolley headquar-ters is the main site for tickets, tour maps and restrooms. The complimentary trolley will take visitors from tour headquarters to the tour neighborhood, where visitors will walk from home to home. When finished touring homes, visitors will re-turn by trolley to headquarters. This is a walking tour and there may be uneven or slippery surfaces; please wear comfortable walking shoes. This tour is not handi-capped accessible.

Directions to tour headquarters: Ronald McDonald House, 2224 S. Jefferson Street. From I-81 or 460E, take I-581S to Roa-noke. Take Colonial Avenue Exit. Turn right onto Brandon Ave. Note: Brandon Ave. crosses over Franklin Rd. and becomes McClanahan St. Follow McClanahan St. Turn right onto S. Jefferson St. Headquar-ters on your left. From 220S take Franklin Rd exit. Turn right at the end of the ramp onto Franklin Rd. Turn right onto McCla-nahan St. Turn right onto S. Jefferson St. Headquarters on your left.

420 Bramble Lane

Three sisters built this Colonial, originally designed as separate apartments for each. The 1958 brick home is now a single-fam-ily residence filled with an impressive art collection that features local and nation-ally acclaimed artists, including works by Ann Glover, Vera Dickerson, and Andy Bality, in addition to pieces by Mrs. Silcox and her children. The kitchen and baths were renovated in 2012 by the current homeowners. The comfortable kitchen features classic white cabinets and gran-ite countertops. An adjoining breakfast room overlooks a charming brick patio surrounded by ferns that leads to a shade garden. The master bedroom and bath of-fer a quiet retreat on one side of the first floor. Noteworthy is the mirror above the vanity. Made of driftwood, it offers a unique focal point to this personal space. The neutral palette of the den and living room provide the perfect backdrop for the

Ticket includes admission to the following 5 properties:

Image: Childe Hassam, Descending the Steps, Central Park (detail), 1895, oil on canvas, 22 3/8” x 22 1/4”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Gift of the Estate of Hildegarde Graham van Roijen, 93.112. Photograph: Katherine Wetzel © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

This exhibition was initiated by The New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, NY, and was curated in part by Linda S. Ferber, Ph.D. Travel of this exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM IN THE GARDENFebruary 19 - May 14, 2017 | Downtown Roanoke, Virginia

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art, which is the main focus of the decor. The dining room features antiques and full length curtains that provide drama in this elegant space. The Silcox home.

408 Bramble Lane

Made of stone and cypress shake shingles, construction began in 1931 and was com-pleted two years later. The home was de-signed by architects Thompkins & Boykin, a firm that contributed to a wide variety of local projects including Crystal Spring Ele-mentary School and Jefferson High School. Their drawings are archived in the Virginia Tech School of Architecture in Blacksburg. Leaded glass windows, archways and orig-inal moldings are signature details in this charming mountain house. Oriental rugs, antiques and the owner’s great-grand-mother’s china and crystal collection show off the architecture. Work from local art-ists as well as city scenes of New York and Roanoke decorate the interior. The dining room opens to a patio with a view down the mountain side. Surrounded by gardens that include a variety of native plants and shrubs, the landscaping of this wooden re-treat complements the structure. A two-car pea gravel parking area and an additional patio area for outside dining was recently added. The Marsh home.

3635 Ridgewood Lane

Home to the current owners since 2003, this brick Colonial has an interesting history. It was built by Norfolk and Western Railroad President Paul Funk-houser for his family in 1959. Subsequent owners added the family room, breakfast room and half bath more than 30 years later, giving the stately home balance. Filled with impressive art and family an-tiques, the interior spaces flow from one room to the next. The renovated kitchen, redone in 2015, features handcrafted white cabinetry with white granite countertops for a sleek and sophisticated look. The dining room is decorated with hand-painted wallpaper and overlooks a wooded patio and garden. A high deck off the family room offers a view of the shade garden. The owners have a knack for finding unique pieces with stories that accompany their treasures. Noteable artists featured in their private collection include Walter Biggs, Dorothy Kincheloe and Sally Turner. The Parrott home.

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3600 Ridgewood Lane

This contemporary home sits up among mature hardwood trees on the mountain-side. Built in the 1960s as a traditional ranch-style home, it was purchased by the current owners in 2005 and completely renovated. By bumping out key areas of the home – the front entrance, the kitchen and the master bedroom – they created a tree-house in the woods. The addition of large windows and bamboo floors throughout the main level creates a natural flow that maximizes views of the wooded setting. In the winter, sun floods the interior and keeps it warm and bright. In the summer, the leaves on the trees shade the house and give it refuge from the heat. The stunning kitchen blends functional use of space and materials to create a chef’s dream. Off the kitchen, the owners built a patio with salvaged brick purchased from a Norfolk and Western railway station in Franklin County. An old barbeque was repurposed and turned into an outdoor fireplace on the edge of the patio rimmed with native plants. The dining room furniture is an antique set the owners found on a trip to New Orleans. The comfortable living room brims with books, art, antiques and col-lectables, while the tree-covered screened

porch is another dining location and a quiet reading spot. A vegetable garden planted in the front yard takes advantage of the sun. The Jennings home.

3654 Ridgewood Lane

The current owners bought this brick home with black shutters just three years ago. Built in 1958, the home features a covered front porch with a valley view. The exterior was enhanced with stone walls surrounding the refinished backyard pool and patio. The addition of a stone fireplace and an outdoor kitchen under a covered porch maximizes the outdoor living space and creates a pleas-ant venue for entertaining. New wrought-iron fencing in the front and back comple-ment the wood and stone features of the home. The yard was completely landscaped to showcase the pool and patio areas. In-side, the basement was transformed into an impressive “man cave” with three large, flat-screen TVs, a wet bar and leather sofas, creating a space to relax and watch sports after a day by the pool or a meal on the grill. The Dalton home.

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Places of Interest: The Virginia Museum of Transportation, located at 303 Norfolk Avenue in down-town Roanoke, has one of the finest rail collections in the nation. More than 50 exhibits provide a broad view of Virginia’s rich railway heritage. The most valuable exhibits are the internationally known Norfolk & Western Class J-611 and the Class A-1218, the most modern steam lo-comotives ever built. Roanoke Valley Gar-den Club plants and maintains the railyard beds and planters.

Mill Mountain Wildflower Garden, 2000 J.B. Fishburn Pkwy. This 2.5-acre garden atop Mill Mountain has been planned, planted, weeded and maintained by Mill Mountain Garden Club members since 1971. The garden offers a spring exhibit of wildflowers and native plants.

Fincastle Presbyterian Church, Fincastle. The grounds of this 18th-

century cemetery include tombstones that date to 1795, bearing names of prominent frontier heroes and leaders in early Vir-ginia history. In 1943, the GCV repaired sunken and broken tombstones, built a stone wall and brick terrace and planted holly, crepe myrtle, boxwood and spring bulbs.

Beale Memorial Garden at Hollins University, Hollins University cam-

pus. Originally created in the 1930s to honor alumna Lucy Preston Beale, class of 1864. The 2006 Garden Club of Virginia restoration culminated in a landscape that adhered to the plan used by A.A. Farnham in 1930, with reconnected paths and an emphasis on creek and native plants.

Open studios. A citywide, self-guided tour of artist’s studios. Some locations are near the Roanoke HGW tour route. www.openstudiosofroanoke.com

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