Fall Festival at Salubria Saturday, October 19, 2013 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Come to the first Fall Festival at the Germanna Foundation’s circa 1757 Salubria mansion in Stevensburg, Virginia on Saturday, October 19, 2013 from 1-4 pm. For all ages, there will be a costume contest, desserts, crafts, games and a scavenger hunt. Children […]
Symposium: Preserving the 18th Century in the 21st
Germanna Foundation member Douglas Harnsberger (and architect of the Germanna Visitor Center) will be presenting at a preservation symposium in November 2013 at Gunston Hall along with renowned Williamsburg architectural historian Dr. Carl Lounsbury. Dr. Lounsbury is the author of The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg, which talks about Germanna Foundation’s Salubria. Doug’s afternoon presentation […]
Restoring Historic Salubria from Damage Wrought by the Mineral Earthquake
By Doug Harnsberger Spring 2012 Germanna Newsletter At 1:51 pm on August 23, 2011, the terra firma beneath Salubria rumbled and heaved the stately 1757 Georgian-style house. By the time the quaking action had subsided, the 5.8 magnitude Mineral Earthquake had ruptured and twisted both of the twenty foot high chimney stacks twenty degrees, and […]
The Historic Gardens of Salubria
Under the Garden Club of Virginia’s 2010 William D. Rieley Fellowship, scholar of landscape architecture, Sonia Brenner (UVA MLA 2010), spent 3 months researching the garden and landscape at Salubria. The following is a summary of her fascinating report, SALUBRIA: AN INTERPRETATION OF ITS GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE HERITAGE, which can be read in its entirety […]
Salubria Preservation and Archaeology
The Germanna Foundation takes very seriously its stewardship of the historic property known as Salubria. Substantial efforts are being made to preserve, study, document and better understand the history of this architectural treasure. Germanna Trustee Kathy Ellis shares the following update: GLASS The Salubria Architecture Subcommittee in-service on March 13 was great fun, and I […]
Salubria standing strong
Amazing! We are delighted to report that the Germanna Foundation is featured in its SECOND front-page story this week, in the Sunday edition of the Culpeper Star Exponent. Special thanks to Germanna Foundation members Doug Harnsberger (1717 Germanna Harnsberger descendant), Kathy Ellis (1717 Germanna Crigler descendant), Russell Hitt (1714 Germanna Hitt descendant), and Michael Frost […]
Salubria Receives the Attention She Deserves: Two Days of Coverage in the Culpeper Star Exponent
Culpeper Star Exponent [Front page, top of the fold, large photograph of Salubria] By Rhonda Simmons Published: July 15, 2010 Exactly how old is the oldest brick house in Culpeper County? We’ll have to wait until Saturday night to find out. Thanks to a new study, the community will soon learn more about the origins […]
Prying into Salubria’s past
By MICHAEL ZITZ The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, VA July 18, 2010 12:35 am Tree rings might seem to be exciting only to termites. But last night, they had Germanna Colonies descendents atwitter over the prospect that their ancestors may have had dealings with Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson and that Salubria may have influenced the […]
Preserving History at Salubria: More than bricks and mortar
By: By Zann Nelson, Culpeper Star-Exponent Published: October 20, 2011 It was more than bricks and mortar; there was something mystical about Saturday’s event at Salubria. Saturday, Oct. 15, Salubria, built by John Thompson, was the location of the quintessential “community working together” as preservation tradesmen, homeowners, and preservationists gathered at the house constructed in […]
Germanna’s Good Stewardship of Salubria is the top story in the Culpeper Star-Exponent
By: Steven Butler Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011, page 1, top story Culpeper Star-Exponent The Germanna Foundation in conjunction with several sponsors hosted a historic masonry restoration symposium Saturday at Salubria Manor. The symposium focused on the most suitable restoration techniques to repair damage to the historic masonry of Salubria, which was built in the […]
