Holiday House Tour

The Historic Petersburg Foundation is excited to highlight Petersburg's Walnut Hill neighborhood for this year's Holiday House Tour to celebrate its early 2023 listing as a state and nationally-recognized historic district on the Virginia Landmark Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Building on the work of a dedicated group of community members and utilizing funding from the Cameron Foundation, HPF worked with a cultural resource management firm and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources to realize Petersburg's only historic district to focus exclusively on 20th-century architecture.

The Walnut Hill Historic District comprises a large residential neighborhood that was first subdivided in 1910 after acquisition of a nearly 250-acre farm, at one time called Walnut Hill. The physical and social center of the community was deliberately focused on Westover Avenue and South Sycamore Street whose residents were predominately middle to upper-class local business leaders, industrialists, lawyers, doctors, politicians, and proprietors. Primarily from the 1910s and 1920s, these dwellings were built mainly in the Colonial Revival and Craftsman styles. The houses included on this tour are all in the popular Colonial Revival style.

Tour headquarters will be located at Christ and Grace Episcopal Church (1545 S Sycamore St) where there is ample parking and restrooms available. Those wishing to buy tickets on the day of the tour will only be able to purchase them here; tickets will not be sold at the other four houses on the day of the tour. Street parking is available at the four house tour locations:

*1607 Westover Avenue, built in 1914

*1594 Westover Avenue, built in 1915

*1578 Westover Avenue, built in 1915

*1755 Fairfax Street, built in 1942

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