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Visitors Are Invited to Take Advantage of Special Hotel Packages in Virginia’s Richmond Region During the 78th Annual Historic Garden Week 

Richmond, Va (April 6) – Virginia’s Richmond Region invites visitors to experience a rich mosaic of some of the country’s finest properties during Historic Garden Week, April 16-23, presented by the Garden Club of Virginia. Visitors will help celebrate 78 years of preserving Virginia’s heritage with three tours in the Richmond Region. Located in the center of the state and Garden Week activity, historic Richmond Region hotels are offering special Garden Week packages for visitors.

The Federal-style Executive Mansion, which is both a Virginia and National Historic Landmark, is the oldest, continuously occupied governor's residence in the United States. The East Garden was designed and installed in the mid-1950s by noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette. The garden was restored to Gillette's design specifications in 1999 by the Garden Club of Virginia.

Richmond Region hotels have visitors covered from five-star, five-diamond indulgent to historic and charming. Centrally located in downtown Richmond, The Jefferson Hotel is the epitome of elegance with elaborate stained glass, detailed architecture and luxurious amenities. The Jefferson’s Garden Week Package includes choice of superior or deluxe accommodations, traditional Southern breakfast, breakfast gratuities, Garden Week guidebook, valet parking and a signature spring floral arrangement from Blooms at The Jefferson. Visitors won’t want to miss the hotel’s restaurant,Lemaire, which features a garden-to-table menu and item prices ranging from $5 to $30.

Also conveniently located in downtown, The Linden Row Inn is a historic urban hotel with European style. The hotel, which was once the play ground for Edgar Allan Poe, is comprised of seven row houses built in the mid-1800s, and meticulously restored over the years. The Garden Week Package includes one night in one of the Linden Row Inn’s Main House rooms, continental breakfast, valet parking, one 4x6 matted photograph of Richmond by Helen Chan, and choice of two tickets to one of the three Historic Garden Week Tours in Richmond.

For a cozy Bed and Breakfast three-day retreat, The William Miller House is offering visitors theHistoric Garden Week in Virginia Package. Book a three-night stay April 18-20, reference ‘Open House’, and get 35% off Wednesday’s room rate. This beautiful Bed and Breakfast is within walking distance of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Carytown, Richmond's hip and eclectic nine-block "Mile of Style."

During “America’s Largest Open House,” the Richmond Region will highlight four centuries of design with three tours that will feature more than 30 different homes, gardens and grounds:

• April 19, Hampton Gardens/Cary Street Road Tour: Guests will tour stately homes designed in the Georgian Revival, English Tudor, and Colonial style. A highlight of the tour includes a brick and frame Colonial, constructed in 1923, that is one of the oldest houses in Hampton Gardens.
• April 20, Monument Avenue Tour: Guests can visit handsome townhouses more than a century old, lining Monument Avenue, long regarded as one of the most beautiful avenues in America. Adorned with monumental statues of historic figures, Monument Avenue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark District.
• April 21, Westmoreland Place/Windsor Farms: Guests visiting Windsor Farms will see one of Richmond's first planned neighborhoods, with homes mostly designed in the Colonial Revival and Cape Cod styles.

All are walking tours through some of Richmond’s most historic and divine neighborhoods. During the April 19 and 21 tours, guests can relax and enjoy lunch under a tent at historic Agecroft Hall in Windsor Farms, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Advance registration is required but admission to Agecroft’s splendid gardens and grounds is included in the cost.

Tickets for the Historic Garden Week tours range from $15 to $40 per event and may be purchased on the day of the tour at any of the open properties, at designated information centers and in advance atwww.VAGardenweek.org.

During Historic Garden Week, visitors will want to take the opportunity to enjoy the Richmond Region’s year-round flair for historic homes and gardens. Take a look at Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Great Houses and Gardens Itinerary for more info about sites such as:

• Agecroft Hall: A 15th-century Lancashire, England estate that was shipped across the Atlantic and painstakingly reassembled on the rolling banks of the James River.
• Executive Mansion:  A National Historic Landmark, the Executive Mansion has been the home of Virginia's first families since 1813 and is the oldest continually occupied governor's residence in the United States. The East Garden, designed and installed in the mid-1950s by noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette, was restored in 1999-2000 by the Garden Club of Virginia with funding from Historic Garden Week events
• Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden: On April 21, after touring Westmoreland Place and Windsor Farms, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden invites guests to enjoy their 40-acres of botanical gardens with extended hours until 9 p.m. From 5 to 7 p.m. that evening, guests can enjoy wine-tasting and live music, tour historic Bloemendaal House and dine in the Garden Café.
• Maymont: The grounds of this 100-acre, Victorian estate include Japanese, Italian, English, Herb, Butterfly and Vegetable gardens and the exquisite Maymont Mansion, which is an example of the opulent style of the American Gilded Age.
• Virginia House: Constructed from the materials of a 16th century English manor house, features close to 1,000 types of ornamental plants that thrive throughout formal and naturalistic gardens.
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA):The new E. Claiborne and Lora Robins Sculpture Garden presents outdoor works from the VMFA collection as well as changing exhibitions. The garden features shade and ornamental trees, richly planted perennials, and reflecting pools at the upper and lower levels connected by a water stair descending a slope.
• Tuckahoe Plantation:The impressive colonial plantation is considered one of the most complete existing 18th century plantation layouts in North America and was the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson.

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About RMCVB
The Richmond Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau (RMCVB), the official destination marketing and tourism organization for the Richmond Region, is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Region to meeting planners, tour operators and leisure travelers. RMCVB operates three Visitor Centers located at the Greater Richmond Convention Center downtown, the Richmond International Airport and Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World in Hanover County.

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