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The Art of Fine Homes Landing, Virginia Beach, 23454 218 Virginia Beach 219 Two-day combo tickets: $55 pp. Tour Wednesday in Virginia Beach and Thurs- day in Norfolk. Available only at www. vagardenweek.org. Tour headquarters and lunch location: Broad Bay Country Club, 2120 Lords The Art of Fine Homes Landing, Virginia Beach, 23454. $20 pp for buffet lunch served from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (757) 496-9090 for reservations. Virginia Facilities: Available at Tour Headquarters, Broad Bay Country Club, and All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 1969 Woodside Lane. Directions to tour headquarters: Take I-264E then London Bridge Rd. exit 19C, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 turn left following Great Neck Rd. signs, Beach stay on Great Neck Rd. going south 3.7 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. mi., turn right onto Lords Landing. The Painted Garden Art Show at Photo courtesy of Rendy Adams Beach Gallery, 313 Laskin Rd., opens on Saturday, April 14 with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and runs through Satur- Great Neck Point has always been desirable real estate. The Chesapean Indians built day, May 12th. The featured artist is Ste- one of their largest permanent encampments on the land protected by Long Creek on phie Jones. Gallery hours from M-F 10 the north and the Lynnhaven River on the west and south. Although the first English a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 colonists sampled the famed Lynnhaven oyster in 1607, they inexplicably sailed on. p.m. Complimentary refreshments served 4 to 5:30 p.m. on day of tour. A percentage The Virginia Beach tour features Great Neck Point from its oldest home, built in the early of each sale benefits local garden club com- HowardHanna.com 18th century, to its most dramatic contemporary. Everywhere are views of the Lynnhaven, munity projects. www.beachgallery.com the large tidal estuary that helps define northern Virginia Beach and one of its most and www.stephiejones.com beautiful waterfront neighborhoods. This tour showcases seven properties on Historic Complimentary refreshments on the lawn Garden Week for the first time. at 1872 S. Woodside Ln. from 2 to 4 p.m. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN Ample free parking at Broad Bay VIRGINIA BEACH ON LASKIN ROAD Country Club. Access shuttles from this location. Make a reservation now at www.eurasiavb.com/reservations Photography not allowed in the or CALL US AT: (757) 422.0184 homes but images of the arrangements Hosted by will be posted on Instagram following the tour. Follow us on @vbgardentour and on The Virginia Beach Garden Club Facebook at Historic Garden Week in The Princess Anne Garden Club Virginia Beach. C Tickets: $40 pp. Available on tour day at M Chairman Broad Bay Country Club, Flowers-Wayne Jones and Willis Furniture. Tickets not Y available at homes on tour and no sin- Joan Stumborg (757) 642-5217 CM [email protected] gle-house tickets. Cash or check payable to VBGC/HGW; credit cards accepted at Ticket includes admission to the MY Broad Bay Country Club. following 5 properties and 2 gardens: CY Co-Chairmen Advance tickets: $30 pp. www.vagarden- CMY week.org. Available at the following Virgin- Katie Hand (703) 863-3769 K ia Beach locations prior to April 25: Baker’s Helen Junkin (757) 999-2314 Fine Jewelry & Gifts, Flowers-Wayne Jones, 3157 Adam Keeling Road Virginia Beach Visitors Center, Willis Furni- ture, Yves Delorme, Flowers at Hilltop, The The oldest home in Great Neck Group Tickets Chairman Globe at Wells Company, London Bridge Point, built in the early 1700s shortly Nursery, Richard Stravitz Gallery (Laskin after Adam Thoroughgood’s house, has Connie Owen (757) 377-5913 Rd. location), Taste Unlimited (Shore Dr. been continuously occupied for 300 years. [email protected] location), McDonald Garden Centers. Cash Thomas Keeling constructed it in the early or check payable to VBGC/HGW. 1700s on property deeded to his grandfa- CAFE AND WINE BAR ther by Charles I. The original land grant 220 Virginia Beach Virginia Beach 221 home, tore it down and started over on a 3133 Inlet Road site farther back from the Lynnhaven River. Their shared penchant for family furniture Garden Only. Surrounded by inspired a desire to build a “new old” oaks, pines and other native trees, house with modern conveniences, big river the brick ranch sits atop a peninsula in a views and spaces tailored for their family narrow cove. Much of the property has a of five. They carefully relocated the green- natural look, artfully cultivated by a house where his mother continued to tend Master Gardener, but the flower-lover prizewinning orchids. Historical referenc- struggles with a husband who likes grass. es on the front façade include arched So far the gardener is holding her own, windows and the turret holding the stair- creating seating areas to enjoy the views well. Dark cherry floors and oriental rugs and planting perennial flowers, grasses set off antiques throughout the down- and shrubs as buffers on the banks to stairs. The carved newel post on the stair- catch runoff. The grass lover is a mechan- way landing is mid-19th century New ical engineer and a car collector. Gear England. The built-in mahogany book- heads will swoon over the three restored shelves in the library hold inherited books, cars he’ll have on display: 1965 Porsche some published in the early 1800s. 356C (yellow), 1958 Mercedes-Benz Artworks are either passed down or were 190SL (silver), 1950 Willy’s CJ-3A Jeep painted by Siobhan. The warm earthy (red). The gardener is an ardent recycler, colors used throughout are further indica- always on the lookout for throwaways tions of an artist’s eye. The kitchen and that can serve a garden function. A slate den, the two rooms directly connected to walkway came from a pool table put out the outdoors, are the center of family life. for trash pickup. Steps are abandoned rail- An outdoor kitchen and fireplace also get road ties. Cobblestones edge flowerbeds. plenty of use and the dock extending from Particularly close to her heart is a group- the natural shoreline is a favored place ing of rocks hauled home from trips across to fish and crab. Siobhan and Jimmy the country. Betty and Jim Villers, owners. 3157 Adam Keeling Road Miller, owners. ran from Long Creek to present-day Vir- roof made from recycled rubber and plastic ginia Beach Boulevard. Thomas’ father inspire the interior color theme of white, 3116 Inlet Road Adam is known for digging a shortcut to gray and beige. From the front door there is the Chesapeake Bay on the north shore of a clear view across the first floor to the pool This gleaming white contemporary Long Creek. Storms enlarged his ditch to and the river beyond it. The kitchen is a home crowns the southern bank of form the Lynnhaven Inlet. Architectural his- study in white with an expanse of gray- Long Creek, a busy waterway connecting torians admire the residence for its elegant veined white Italian calacatta borghini mar- the Lynnhaven River and Broad Bay. The brickwork, especially the chevron-patterned ble on countertops, white subway tile back- site has historical significance predating gable ends and double chimneys. The splash and white cabinets. A freestanding the English colonists. A Chesapeake Indi- bricks, laid in Flemish bond pattern, were cabinet with a large pass through divides the an burial mound stands beside the home. made onsite as was the oyster shell mortar. family room and kitchen areas. European The owner delayed construction to allow The center hallway, a popular feature in the oak floors are finished with low luster oil and archeologists time to excavate. Arnold colonial South, is bounded on the north side topped with sisal area rugs. The top of the Rodriquez, the owner’s brother, designed by a handsome parlor featuring heart pine table in the breakfast room is a single slab of the four-bedroom home to accommodate paneling on the fireplace wall. The dining walnut. A long teak table on the covered collections of 19th and 20th century room is on the other side of the hallway and porch offers an outdoor dining option. Sig- bronze statuary and contemporary paint- opens to a kitchen added in 1938. Subse- nificant examples from the art collection ex- ings and glass, including several pieces by quent owners added a first-floor master ist throughout the home, beginning with Dale Chihuly. The sunburst chandelier in bedroom and solarium. The original pieces by the front door and continuing with the entry is by artist John Quillen. two-story structure is amazingly intact due portraits of the owners’ two daughters in the Custom-made carpets in swirling designs to the stewardship of all its owners who re- dining room and living room. At the foot of and muted colors sing backup to the art. FREE ADMISSION TO THE spected the integrity of the original while the stairs is an oversized canvas in acrylic Behind the broad stairway in the entry adding modern comforts. Added to the Vir- and charcoal by Nashville artist Anna Jaap. hall, a life-sized statue of Neptune over- FRANCIS LAND HOUSE ginia Landmarks Register and the National Nearby is a large work by street artist Shep- looks the terrace, pool and water view. It Register of Historic Places in 1973. Lynn ard Fairey, best known for his 2008 “Hope” Wednesday, April 25, 2-4pm is a prototype of the 34’ monument by with a Historic Garden Week ticket. and Glenn Carwell, owners. poster of Obama. Monique and Scott Ad- Paul Di Pasquale that dominates the ams, owners.
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