Climbing vines of flowers overflow over the top of the picket fence at 519 S. Lee Street. Photo by Louise Krafft.
Six historic Alexandria homes are featured on the 73rd annual TWIG Home Tour on Saturday, Sept. 27. The tour includes a recently restored home on the National Register of Historic Places that was home of George Lewis Seaton. Seaton was the first African-American legislator from Alexandria elected to the Virginia General Assembly in 1873. Other homes on the tour include a federal-style home with its original “flounder” wing, dating from the late 1700s; a home that was once a grocery and another that was first a tannery, and a very small home, built in the 1800s that has been remodeled with creative use of space.
The TWIG Historic Home Tour is Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tickets are $35 each if purchased in advance and $40 on the day of the tour.
Tickets are now available online at thetwig.org. Tickets are also available during business hours at the Twig Thrift Shop, 106 N. Columbus Street and at the Ramsey House Visitor Center on King Street in Old Town.
On the day of the tour, tickets will be available at the Twig Thrift Shop, at the Ramsey House Visitor Center on King Street, Old Town, and at the Elliott Garden, Old Presbyterian Meeting House.