. Historic Virginia homes and churches . o issue a stern edict against women who en-gage themselves to two men at the same time. There is no record in Virginia indicating that this edictwas ever revoked. WESTOVER* From a deep green setting of shade-tree and turf,Westover, deep red, tall, stately and serene, gleams uponJames River. Its high and steep roof is unrelieved saveby doimer windows and towering chimneys. Its formalred-brick walls are imencumbered by porch or ornament,but foot-worn gray stone steps rise in a pyramid to a whiteportal of exquisite taste. Above a fan-light a massivecornice
. Historic Virginia homes and churches . o issue a stern edict against women who en-gage themselves to two men at the same time. There is no record in Virginia indicating that this edictwas ever revoked. WESTOVER* From a deep green setting of shade-tree and turf,Westover, deep red, tall, stately and serene, gleams uponJames River. Its high and steep roof is unrelieved saveby doimer windows and towering chimneys. Its formalred-brick walls are imencumbered by porch or ornament,but foot-worn gray stone steps rise in a pyramid to a whiteportal of exquisite taste. Above a fan-light a massivecornice, supported by Corinthian pilasters, is caj^ped bya carved pineapple—emblem of hosjjitality—within abroken pediment. * For full histories of the Byrds and their estates see TheWritings of Colonel WiUiam Byrd of Wextovcr in Virginia, ^sqr.,edited by John Spencer Bassett, New York, 1901, the Introductionand Appendix; The Critic (Riclnnond, Aa.), December 1-1 and 16,1888; The Title to Westover in William and Mary Quarterly, iv, HAMPTON ROADS AND LOWER JAMES SI The row of woiulerful old tulip jjoplars. with tluirgnarled aiul twisted arms, in front of the liouse is believedto have stood guard there for a century and a half, andthe green earpet that stretches to the edge of the hlufl isas old as the trees. The main entrance to the grounds is at the rear wherenoble iron gates bearing the Ryrd arms swing betweensquare, brick piers ten feet high, surmounted by brassfalcons standing with wings spread as if for flight. Theinterioi- of the mansion—with its great central hall and
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