HISTORIC STAUNTON FOUNDATION 45th Annual Holiday House Tour Saturday, December 9, 5 8PM Sunday, December 10, 1 5PM
History of Oakenwold Neighborhood The Oakenwold neighborhood was created from the subdivision of large properties surrounding the Oakenwold estate. This estate, originially owned by William Fraser, was situated on the southern slope of a large ridge. Grays Map of 1877 provides documentation noting additional estates bordering Staunton s north end. To the west was Selma estate, and to the east was Sunnyside estate, owned by Mrs. William H. Tams. To the north was the Bagby property which, along with neighboring houses, became what we know today as Bagby Street. Staunton annexed the Oakenwold estate in 1860. Two houses along Oakenwold Street were constructed in the 1880 s about 20 years after the 1860 annexation. No further development of Oakenwold or High Streets appears to have occurred until 1904-1909, which coincides with the 1905 annexation of Williams Street situated north of Oakenwold Street. As an early indication of an organized neighborhood, the Staunton Spectator reported on Friday, September 23, 1910 a meeting of the Board of Aldermen where the citizens of West Williams Street requested a granolithic sidewalk. In 1916, the architecture firm of T.J. Collins and Son designed the neoclassical Staunton Grammar School, now Staunton s Public Library. Then in the 1920 s another wave of construction filled in lots created out of the old Oakenwald estate. The resulting homes reflect eclectic architecture of the period including American Foursquare, Colonial Revival, Prairie, Bungalow, Bungaloid, and Spanish Revival styles. During this period, the Collins firm designed four homes in the neighborhood: 20 Frazier Spanish Revival (open for Tour); 827 High Street Bungaloid; 804 High Street Prairie; and 19 Virginia Avenue Bungalow. A final phase of construction reflects Staunton s growth after World War II with architecture following Colonial Revival trends. Twelve lots and associated homes were built along Williams Street. These mid-century houses followed the local precedent for variations of Colonial Revival architecture. Most are gable roofed, one and half and two story homes with end chimneys, divided light windows, and classically ornamented eaves and entryways. 1
N NEW ST 1 2 3 4 5 6 2017 Tour Sites 802 N Augusta Street 101 Oakenwold Street 20 Frazier Street 16 Williams Street 10 Bagby Street 265 Williams Street Tickets are available for purchase for $25 from the following locations: The Emporium, The Wine Cellar, Redwood & Company, Tease Hair Salon, and online at www.historicstaunton.org. Tickets can be purchased for $30 on tour day at the 802 N. Augusta Street location. On-street parking is available throughout neighborhood. Please note: The owners have generously opened their private homes for the tour. Most are not fully accessible. No elevators will be available for the tour. Expect stairs, hills, and uneven surfaces. N 6 WILLIAMS ST OVERLOOK RD GRASTY 4 WILLIAMS ST HANCOCK ST VIRGINIA AVE 5 BAGBY ST N AUGUSTA ST 3 FRAZIER ST HIGH ST 2 BLAKEMORE OAKENWOLD TERRACE CHURCHVILLE AVE. HIGH ST OAKENWOLD ST STAUNTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 1 N AUGUSTA ST 2
101 Oakenwold Street Built in the 1880 s, this local vernacular I-house is adorned with Folk Victorian details. Brackets with an Eastlake motif emphasize structural support of roof eaves at the main roof, porch, and side bay. A steeply pitched, side gable roof emphasizes the vertical proportions. The gable ends include a return cornice, and a vertical bead board band creating a textured frieze. Carol Kipp tackled this rehabilitation project seeing the potential in a house with great architecture. Formerly divided into apartments, the house required upgrades and remediation of deteriorated materials. Carol s attention to details such as retaining and repairing plaster, refinishing floors, and retaining historic windows provides authenticity in the rehabilitation. Recognizing how to create modern living convenience and comfort through adaptive reuse of Victorian room arrangements may have been a challenge, but is a demonstrated success. A restored entry with glass surround and operating transom illuminate the central hall. The original door includes period decorative moldings and brass hardware. The renovation of the hall proved to be a challenge due to a walled-off staircase and missing elements. The project required a new balustrade and custom moldings matching other details found throughout the house. The front living area is spacious with high ceilings. A beautiful Victorian fireplace and surround is the focal point of the room. Outfitted with nickel fenders and the original coal basket, the heavy marbleized slate evokes period Eastlake design. The rehabilitation includes a beautiful new kitchen full of custom cabinetry, new appliances and soapstone counters. Acknowledging the separation of dining and cooking areas, as well as a change in flooring, a playful border of stone and oak serves as a reminder of the past configuration. Modern baths of stone, porcelain, and glass, and bedrooms with ample closet space, complete the many comforts adapted into the house. 3
20 Frazier Street Designed in June of 1926 by T. J. Collins and Son, Casa Loma is a romantic Spanish Revival composition of organic materials including concrete, clay tile, brick, iron, and wood. The house and gardens are a complete period design with gardens enclosed by tall walls and trellis. In 1926, the Collins firm designed a series of romantic houses of similar style and construction including 20 Frazier Street, designed for Charles K Brown and his wife Francis Opie Brown. Employing a consistent unifying design feature, the cyma reversa profile repeats in the front wall and brick walk, the chimney, the rear steps, and the base and capital of the entry columns. Bill Wellington and Lynne Mackey made 20 Frazier Street their home in 2001, and sustainable maintenance is their guiding principle. Clay tile roofs allow replacement of individual tiles when needed. Bill has worked out a system of careful section-by-section replacement of the 90-year-old roofing barrier located under the tiles. Careful matching of wood elements and plaster repair have also been a focus of home projects. The house provides a cottage feeling with repeated connections between the interior and exterior. All of the rooms except two include a door to the exterior and the room pattern provides a natural flow throughout the house. The only area remodeled from the original design is a copper roofed addition completed in the 1980 s. The addition provides Lynne with a dedicated music studio including a harpsichord and piano for her professional work. The original landscape included an enclosed kitchen garden where the addition is now located. The original wood burning fireplace warms the living room, which opens directly to the covered loggia through period French doors. The kitchen and butler's pantry include original cabinetry and an exterior door connects the panty directly to the kitchen garden. Throughout the house are the original casement windows with cast brass hardware. Wood screen doors with woven metal screen protectors, all made with mortise and tenon joinery and detailed moldings are still in use. 4
16 Williams Street Billy and Peggy Vaughn have created a true home for family and friends. They purchased their project house in 1982 making consistent improvements with the clear intent of welcoming everyone. When they started, the house presented challenges such as walls covered in paneling, rooms chopped into cramped spaces, and shag carpet throughout. Outside, the porch was missing and the siding was covered in ivy. The Vaughn s two story, two bay house has a pyramidal roof and Italianate brackets adorning the cornice. Covered in German siding, the wood framed house includes two-over-two double hung wood sash windows, shutters, and a single story front porch. Today the home is open, big, and colorful. Peggy and Billy shared in the adventures of uncovering the central chimney, reconfiguring rooms, tiling and refinishing wood floors, and furnishing their home with family heirloom pieces. Custom cabinetry and counters define the generous kitchen created by local artisans using carefully selected cherry and natural stone. A generous front porch and rear deck connect the Vaughns with their surrounding neighborhood. As indicated in the 1914 Sanborn map, both this property and a neighboring property once had stables along the lane separating the parcels. This unique Staunton neighborhood still boasts a large wooded area providing privacy, widlife habitat, and endless stories of childhood adventures. 5
265 Williams Street 265 Williams Street is a one and half story brick masonry Neo-Colonial house constructed in 1946 according to City records. The composition is symmetrical with a side gable roof, clapboard sided dormers, and shouldered-end chimneys with corbeling. Shuttered, divided light windows flank the central entry with its herringbone brick stoop, and modillion blocks decorate the cornice. An entablature supported by pilasters and transom accent the paneled door. Entering the house, the traditional central stair with its sleek Federal style balustrade divides the interior rooms. Throughout the house, you will find a fun collection of mid-century furniture complementing the plaster walls and fireplaces with mantels. Each room shines with bright, refinished oak floors. Kerry Cooke and Paul Menzer embarked on key rehabilitation projects including a full kitchen update with new cabinet fronts, exposing and refinishing the oak floor, new appliances, and a cabinet surround and counter for the refrigerator. Enhancing the connection with the dining room, they doubled the width of the doorway creating an open view. Upstairs are two bedrooms and a large dressing room. Again, mid-century furnishings are the focus as well as the striking shag rug and stools in the dressing room. Bright morning light illuminates the rear den through a wall of windows. The den features a relaxing workspace and TV area with an exposed brick wall and cowhide accent area rug. Teak exterior tables and chairs furnish the original back porch. The porch overlooks a landscaped terrace accessed by the back steps. 6
10 Bagby Street Constructed on the edge of town in 1857 by brick merchant and developer Benjamin T. Bagby, 10 Bagby Street combines elements of mid-19th century Greek Revival style with Italianate details. Colonel (Ret.) Melissa Patrick purchased the property in 2005. For 141 of its 160 years, only two families owned the house. Melissa s rehabilitation carefully preserved defining historic elements while creating her new home. The rehabilitation brought out comfortable qualities of the home's cozy rooms. Refinished mantels, floors and woodwork reveal the glow of fine Southern yellow pine and oak. Restoration included all of the traditional plaster walls and ceilings. The walls provide a palatte for a variety of color throughout the home. Period woodwork is reveled in the tall baseboards found in the front parlor, in the hall, and the fireplace surrounds with fluted pilasters supporting mantles. Also, note the paneled doors throughout the house. A new addition is located at the rear of the hall to address function and beauty. The addition provided the ability to install new plumbing for baths and laundry and to provide a new entry. Here soapstone is the new unifying element found in the rehabilitation. The condition of the rear ell required removal of the kitchen and a den. The new kitchen incorporates soapstone counters, a kneehole desk, breakfast area and additional countertops made from salvaged heart pine. Work revealed a historic cooking fireplace hidden behind smoke damaged paneling. This historic feature highlights the new den located in the 19th century work area of the house. Melissa served in Afghanistan and many of the rugs throughout the home originate from her travels. Serving 28 years and stationed throughout the world, she collected decorative arts unique to local cultures. Note the Serbian iconography as well as the extremely fine, hand stitched Korean textiles. 7
802 North Augusta - Salon Flo A steeply pitched cross gable roof and brick masonry define this Tudor Revival design. The building appears as a commercial version of an English cottage due to its central chimney, corbeled bricks at the eaves, and a side door made of vertical boards with Arts and Crafts iron strap hinges. The heavy shingle roof evokes flat English clay tiles. Once the Whiting Oil Company Station #6 dating back to 1930, this is a classic service station from Staunton s early automobile period. Today the old garage bay is fitted with a large modern window. The original sign pole and bracket proudly holds a new sign announcing Cameron Tilly Messin s Salon Flo. The salon is a wonderful adaptive reuse of historic automobile architecture. Cameron retrofitted the building with laminate flooring, salon stations, and break kitchen. Her chosen color scheme is warm and friendly. The old customer counter area provides a welcoming reception room while sunlight filters through the original steel framed side windows. AUTOMOBILE ARCHITECTURE The intersection of North Augusta Street and Churchville Avenue is the convergence of routes 11 and 250. Historically, the area transformed from largely residential to commercial beginning in the 1920 s. Today we can still experience the early auto architecture and the potential of these unique resources. According to Hill s directory of 1931 there were 19 gasoline and oil service stations in Staunton. Many were located on N. Central Avenue, Greenville Avenue, Richmond Road and N. Augusta Street. Both Salon Flo and Ragalia (173 N. Augusta Street) are housed in former early automobile structures. Under the vinyl covering at Robbie s Imports (625 N. Augusta Street) is an art deco station dating to the late 1930 s. Once located on the SW corner of N. Augusta Street and Churchville Avenue was J.J. Kivilighan s service station, a stunning 1935 art deco design by the Collins Firm but lost sometime after 1950. 8
Thank you to the following businesses for generous donations towards this year s Holiday House Tour and Members Party MID VALLEY PRESS 9
A Special Thanks To Tour Site Owners Carol Kipp Colonel (Ret.) Melissa Patrick Kerry Cooke and Paul Menzer Cameron Tilly Messin Peggy and Billy Vaughn Lynne Mackey and Bill Wellington Members Party Hosts Pamela Fox and Dan Layman Brochure Photography Leslie Kipp Holiday House Tour Committee Carol Kipp, Chair Holly Bailey, Paul Borzelleca, Kathy Denney, Jane Hanger, Seth Liskey, Ed Miska, Lynne Turner VOLUNTEER DECORATORS FOR THE TOUR And all of the hosts and hostesses that volunteer their time and efforts to make this annual tour a success! Thank you for joining us! Proceeds from the Tour support the ongoing community effort to preserve Staunton s historic architecture and revitalization. For 46 years, Historic Staunton Foundation s heritage education, building rehabilitation assistance, and preservation advocacy have fostered investment in our community s vital historic resources. 10
Historic Staunton Foundation is a non-profit organization promoting the preservation and revitalization of the rich architectural and historic resources in Staunton, Virginia. Staunton is a unique community of cohesive neighborhoods and a central business district with an impressive inventory of historic buildings and landscapes, most dating from Staunton s late 19th Century boomtown growth. Since 1971, HSF has promoted historic preservation through: v creation of six historic districts v revitalization of downtown business districts v advisory services to property owners and the Historic Preservation Commission v technical rehabilitation support for property owners v development of R.R. Smith Center for History & Art Successful preservation organizations lead their communities by advocating quality urban planning. HSF strives to strike a balance between programs that help individuals with rehab advice and providing guidance to the community as a whole. HSF works one-on-one with property owners, provides preservation workshops, conducts public meetings and provides staff assistance to the City of Staunton. HSF also maintains preservation resource rooms and the TJ Collins & Son Architectural drawings archives for public use. Give the gift of an HSF Membership this Holiday Season! More than 550 individuals, families and businesses support HSF through donations and volunteerism. With a strong base supporting its mission, HSF continues to have a positive influence on our community s development. By joining HSF, you will help to save and maintain the beauty and integrity of Staunton s unique architectural treasures, now and for future generations. Visit our website www.historicstaunton.org for further information. 11
Historic Staunton Foundation Upcoming Events 46th Annual Meeting Sunday, January 21, 2018 4:oo pm R.R. Smith Center for History & Art 1st floor art galleries 8th Annual Winter Wine Festival Saturday February 24, 2018 Noon-5pm Stonewall Jackson Hotel Staunton 12
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