POPLAR FOREST RECEIVES MONEY FOR RESTORATION

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 15, 1993                   TAG: 9304150229
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
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POPLAR FOREST RECEIVES MONEY FOR RESTORATION
Thomas Jefferson's Bedford County retreat, Poplar Forest - the site of a visit Tuesday night by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev - has been given two donations totaling $910,000 to be used toward restoration.
The larger gift, $750,000, was pledged by Caroline Hutter Williams of Lynchburg and the Cranston Williams Jr. family of Roanoke. The Getty Grant program pledged $160,000 as a challenge grant for architectural preservation.
Caroline Hutter Williams is the widow of Cranston Williams Sr., former general manager of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Cranston Williams Jr. is a retired business manager for the Roanoke Times & World-News.
The gifts will go toward the first phase of Poplar Forest's restoration. The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest is trying to raise $5.5 million for the first phase, which is to begin this spring. With the $910,000 in donations, the corporation now has raised $1.1 million.
Jefferson built Poplar Forest as a retreat from his Monticello home in Charlottesville. It was sold by his grandson and altered considerably after a fire in the 1840s and when it was modernized earlier in this century.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB