Christmas at Calendine

The Hill & Valley Garden Club will be festively decorating Historical Calendine for the Page County Heritage Association's annual "Open House". The "Open House" will be on Sunday, December 3rd, from 2-4 pm. There will be music, socializing, delicious homemade refreshments.
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Calendine (Hamburg Road; Luray, VA) 
Built in 1840 for Townsend Young who ran a general store and stagecoach stop in the adjacent building. Calendine is best known as the residence of the renowned Barbee family. William Randolph Barbee (1818-1868) was famed as a classic sculptor whose life-sized statues were highly praised by the critics. He was commissioned to complete the frieze on the west wing of the U.S. Capitol, but, the outbreak of the Civil War interrupted his work which he was never able to resume.
William Randolph's son, Herbert Barbee, (1848-1936) was born in Page County. Like his father, he studied art in Italy, producing various bas-reliefs, statues, and busts. After his return to America he had studios in  New York, Baltimore, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washington City, and Luray where he used the  adjacent store at Calendine. His legacy to Page County is the Confederate Monument on Luray's East Main Street. It was unveiled with great celebration on July 21, 1898