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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 21, 1991                   TAG: 9104190391
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COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT VIRGINIA ARE HOSTS TO HOME TOURS

Gardens and houses throughout the state are open during Historic Garden Week in Virginia.

The week began Saturday and continues through April 28. It is sponsored by The Garden Club of Virginia, which has headquarters in Richmond and which publishes a guidebook to homes open. The headquarters telephone is (804) 644-7776 or (804) 643-7141.

Here is information on tours in communities close to Roanoke:

\ Lexington: Tuesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $6 entire tour, $2 single house admission. Tickets and maps available at Lexington Visitors' Center, 102 E. Washington St., 463-3777.

Five houses and additional gardens will be open, including a circa 1867 house built for James Kerr Edmondson, Lexington's first postwar mayor and a member of the House of Delegates.

\ Lynchburg - Tuesday, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; $10 for block ticket, $5 single house, garden, $2. Tickets available at Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, 1815 Thomson Drive, (804) 846-8451, or at each house on day of tour.

Free bus service will be offered by Central Fidelity Bank from fine arts center to houses. Tea will be served from 2 to 4 p.m. at Point of Honor (circa 1815), 112 Cabell St., and from 1 to 5 p.m. at Fort Early, junction of Memorial and Fort avenues.

The tour includes nine houses and gardens and Fort Early, the only remaining Civil War breastworks in Lynchburg. The breastworks includes a small Confederate museum and a pictorial narrative of the Battle of Lynchburg as well as a table that belonged to Gen. Jubal Early.

\ Martinsville - Wednesday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; $5 block ticket, $2.50 single house admission. Tickets available at each house; luncheon available at Chatmoss Country Club for $6.50.

Tour includes three houses: 1200 Mulberry Road, a French chateau-style house built in 1968 and owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Bassett III; 1030 Mulberry Road, a Georgian-style house built in the 1930s and owned by J. Woody Reeves; and Plantation Road East, a contemporary brick built in 1986 for Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bowles. The Bassett house features a Staffordshire dog collection and Louis XV end tables with ormolu and marquetry.

For more information, call the tour chairman at 638-6027. Luncheon reser-vations can be made by calling632-7557.

by CNB