Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 98

THE SUNDAY HISTORIC VIRGINIA HOUSES To Be Open to Visitors During Garden Week, April 28 to Poplar Hall, the old Colonial residence ou Broad Creek, near Norfolk. Built in the seventeenth century, it has re- mained in the same family for seven generations. A fireplace interior of Old Lynnhaven, still preserved as originally built, with the wide flooring and oak paneling. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—APRIL 20, 1930. Westover, one of the oldest houses on the James River and still preserved as originally built. , Atright: The house and grounds at Old Lynnhaven. Originally known as the Thoroughgood House, it was built by Adam Thoroughgood about 1634, and is said to be the oldest brick. house in Amer- ica. 0ld Donation Church, near Lynnhaven, Va. It was built in 1694, and has recently been -estored. Old York Hall at Yorktown, Va., which was occupied by Lord Cornwal- lis as his headquarters during the siege of Yorktown in 1781. The Stratford Garden committee has arranged to have this and numerous other historic houses open to visitors during the week. Atmospheric of Colonial Virginia is this doorway glimpse of Foxcroft and the luxuriant boxwood of the old estate near Middleburg. The west front of Strat- ford Hall, an- cestral home of Robert E. Lee, which is to be restored as a memorial to the South’s great leader. © Woltz.