Historic Flat Rock house tour this Saturday

Don't miss out on the Historic Flat Rock house tour this Saturday:

Join us on Saturday, July 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for a self-conducted tour of four historic homes & gardens, as well as St. John in the Wilderness Church & Churchyard. . .

Tickets are $25 pre-purchase (no children under ten, please), and $30 at each private home on the tour day. Cash or check is requested, but credit cards will be accepted at "Hopewood" only. 

Order tickets on this website (May 15 - July 6) or purchase at Hendersonville Travel & Tourism, The Wrinkled Egg, and The Book Exchange in Flat Rock, or at each house on day of tour. . .

More information on the tour in the Times-News:

Want to mingle with actors portraying famous figures of the 1960s as they cavort around vintage cars, or peek into an old farmhouse or see a Civil War era depiction of a costume ball set in Flat Rock?

The 28th Tour of Homes will allow visitors to spend a leisurely self-guided day getting a look inside some of the most historic sites in the village of Flat Rock. . .

In addition to four residences, the tour will feature the church and churchyard of St. John in the Wilderness, the oldest Episcopal church in Western North Carolina, construction of which was started in 1833.

A variety of residences grace this drive-yourself tour — from the circa 1848 farmhouse at Apple Acres, the Italianate style of the 1837 McCullough Cottage, the gracious 1862 mountain retreat of Dunroy Estate, to Hopewood, a grand 1938 brick mansion.

Gardens are also open on the tour, with such notable history as the garden at Hopewood, which had an original design by Chauncey Beadle, the horticulturalist long associated with the Biltmore Estate. . .

Read it all, and also in the Hendersonville Lightning:

Six years since it last hosted a home tour, Historic Flat Rock is offering a look inside four private homes and the historic St. John in the Wilderness church and cemetery on Saturday, July 12.

Open for the tour are the Dunroy Estate and garden (c1862), McCullough Cottage (c1837), Apple Acres (c1848) and the Hopewood Estate and formal gardens (c1878-1938). Also featured is the Church of St. John in the Wilderness and its churchyard (c1833), a must for history buffs.

At Hopewood, tourgoers will enjoy a special event celebrating the estates' owners in the 1950s. Visitors will "meet" the stars of the late '50s and '60s, an era of dynamic social change and innovation. . .