Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 12, 1990 TAG: 9004110308
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Willow Springs, designed in the early 1970s, is a Williamsburg style home with a collection of antique furnishings.
2472 Glebe Road, a home of traditional design, has a formal English boxwood garden. Furnishings are a mixture of Oriental rugs, antiques and family pieces.
Fincastle Presbyterian Church, renovated in 1849, features the original lamp fixtures, historic cemetery and pipe organ.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church was built in 1837 in the style of gothic Revival influence.
The Fincastle Gallery, designed as a one-room log cabin in 1784, features many additions dating from 1784-1930.
Bluebird Hill, built in the mid-1950s, is located with a clear view of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Allegheny Mountains to the west.
Shively House, restored in 1974, is a pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania stone house.
An all-day tour will depart at 9:15 a.m. from the Roanoke Garden Center. At 12:30, an afternoon tour departs from the center.
Ticket price of $20 includes a tour of the homes and bus ticket. Single-house admission is $2.
Box lunches will be available at Fincastle Presbyterian Church from noon to 2:30 p.m. for $5.25.
Prepaid reservations must be made by April 18. Call the Roanoke Council of Garden Clubs, from 9 a.m. to noon, at 343-4519.
Woodsedge overlooks Jefferson National Forest. The passive-solar house was constructed in 1984 of brick, stone, wood and glass.
Fincastle United Methodist Church, designed by Francis Absbury in 1803-1804, has divided pews and a gallery that was built for slaves.
by CNB