Historic Virginia homes and churches

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Framed Print of Historic Virginia homes and churches

Historic Virginia homes and churches. w Kent County is statelyHampstead, long the home of the Webl) family. TheseWebljs were prominent in Virginia from the early eigh-teenth century. Some of them were members of the Houseof Burgesses. One of them, George Webb, was treasurerof Viryinia during the Revolution and for some time after-ward, and other representatives of the name have beendistinguished in the United States and Confederate StatesNavies. Hampstead was built by Conrad Webb, in 1820, as 262 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CIirRCHES the (late in gilt figures upon the cornice proclaims. Itstands upo. Historic Virginia homes and churches. w Kent County is statelyHampstead, long the home of the Webl) family. TheseWebljs were prominent in Virginia from the early eigh-teenth century. Some of them were members of the Houseof Burgesses. One of them, George Webb, was treasurerof Viryinia during the Revolution and for some time after-ward, and other representatives of the name have beendistinguished in the United States and Confederate StatesNavies. Hampstead was built by Conrad Webb, in 1820, as 262 VIRGINIA HOMES AND CIirRCHES the (late in gilt figures upon the cornice proclaims. Itstands upon the top of a high hill overlooking lovely-grounds and gardens, and a wide sweep of country. Thefront and rear entrances of the mansion are alike. In frontthe white niarhle steps descend to a hox-hedged walk, fromwhich a circular carriage drive sweeps around a centralplot, with a sun-dial in the middle, and filled with shruhs, familiar and rare, some of them hrought from Eiu-ope.Tlie grounds hevond this circle are set with heautiful and. HAMP.STKAU, NKW KKNT COUNTY interesting trees, many of which, like the shruhs, cameacross the water to contribute to the charm of a Virginiagentlemans home. From the rear entrance, the gardens fall away in fourterraces, filled with flowers and fruits and vegetables andadorned with summer-houses and trellises, over which old-fashioned roses clamber. Flowering shrubs border thewalks and screen from view the squares devoted to the moreuseful than ornamental purposes of the garden. The mansion stands four stories high hicluding theEnglish basement and attic. It is divided in the middleby a great hall whose ceiling is supported on one side by THE YORK lUVER COUNTRY 203 columns, and from which a splendid stairway winds to anobservatory which atlords a view of the country tor milesaround. In the hiirli-pitched Knglish basement was the Vel)blibrary witii its hooks—in huilt-in shelves around the wallsand up to the ceilin<if—amony them many a (ju. © Reading Room 2020

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