Historic Homes Tour 2023
July 29, 2023 @ 10:00AM — July 30, 2023 @ 5:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Historic Homes Tour -- Saturday, July 29
10am-4pm -- $25
Downtown Abingdon
Abingdon prides itself on its well-preserved downtown historic district and its commitment to historic preservation. Tour the interiors of a variety of the best preserved Federal, Victorian, and early 20th century houses and buildings in Virginia, all within walking distance downtown. Tour the houses of perhaps the wealthiest man in the United States in 1810, a 19th-century hotel converted into an elegant home, a structure that was once just rotting, bare timbers that has been restored to an elegant home today. Nine magnificent structures are featured in this year's line-up.
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262 Bradley Street -- This house was built in 1908 by the Bradley family, who were prominent in the lumber business and is an example of the distinguished homes built on Bradley Street at that time.
208 West Main Street -- James Fields, a building contractor who also operated a brick kiln and factory, built the house in 1858.
124 East Main Street -- This grey stone church, St. Thomas Episcopal church, was built in 1925 following a devastating fire the previous year that destroyed the earlier church.
133 East Main Street -- This brick townhouse, known as Marcella, was built in 1845 by the Rev. Phillip Rohr, a Methodist minister.
170 East Main Street -- Two buildings were on this site before the current brick storehouse was built by Minter Jackson in 1886.
228 East Main Street -- During the 1780s, this lot housed a dwelling, a log tavern, and then an ordinary, run by Fincastle Sterrett, an emancipated slave once owned by William King.
107 Park Street -- Susan and Rick Humphreys have restored this 1834 structure, which was owned by several people in the 19th century, most prominently by Thomas Johnston, a well-known portrait painter.
224 Oak Hill Street -- Frank A. Parker, a traveling salesman for Holston Woolen Mills, settled in Abingdon in 1892, opened a grocery store, and built this Victorian house.
150 West Main Street -- For the first time in a generation, there will be guided tours of the Martha Washington Inn & Spa during the annual Abingdon Historic Homes tour.