The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-23
.LENTEN TALKS
OF COLONIAL
DANES
Varied and Interesting
Series Arranged for Pa
triotic Project
b. JEAN ELIOT

House Fund" Chapter III,
Colonial DANES Of America. is ar
ranging a series Of Lenten lectures.
which win be given on Monday
afternoons and which present
varied aspects OF interest.
The first, on "Old Laces," will be
held on Monday, March z, at 3
O'Clock at the residence Of Mrs.
Charles Stuart Alden. 1902 Eight
zenith st.. with Mrs. Ridgely Hunt,
an authority on the subject, as the
speaker. The following week the
meeting will be in the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan G. Phillips,
who have the finest art gallery In
Washington, and VIII Hutchins,
professor OF art, American Uni
Nersity. viii speak on Modern
Art"
Mrs. John George Beresford has
loaned her residence, 1909 Twentieth
St., for the lecture on March FL,
When Horace w. Peaslee will speak
on THE Legacy of L'Enfant." Mr..
4 Poaslee Is chairman Of the Wash.
J. 1ngton committee. American InStt-
tIite of Architects.
AAACuSOu DSAUEO 16CGuT0
Eastern Textiles" win be George
Hewitt Myers subject when he
speaks on the afternoon Of March
20 at his own residence, 1910 s st.
The final meeting Of the series win
be held at Rauscher's, with Charles
Colfax, Long as the speaker. In
connection with his lecture, Wash.
lngton, Our National Shrine" he will
show the very beautiful color pic.
lures of the Capital which he has
been collecting for years. A special
luncheon at Rauscher's win precede
this program and parties are already
being made UP for the occasion.
Mrs. John George Beresford and
Mrs. Robert Giles are in charge OF
arrangements for the lecture series
and have charge Of the sale Of
tickets.
Historic Mansion
The purchase Of the George
Wythe house at Williamsburg has
double purpose, for it Is to be
used as a parish house for Bruton
Parish Church as well as a shrine
and g museum. It Is to be re-
stored in cooperation with author
tiles on the Colonial period asso.
clated with the American wing OF
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Next to Mt. Vernon and Monticello,
the George Wythe house Is the
most interesting historically in Vir.
ginia and when restored will be q
fine example Of a digntfied, Colonial
home.
The Bruton Parish Church was
the court church of Colonial Vir-
Stnia and the successor Of the
church at Jamestown. The present
building, to say nothing OF the.
TWO buildings which preceded It, has
been used by the students Of the
College Of William and Mary since
Up to the present time Bruton has
had no parish house to use in minis
tertng to the students Of the College
of William and Mary except the old
slave kitchen of an adjoining resi-.
dence, which was bought for 81 900,
IN 1901, when there were 10 students
ct the college. Today william and
Mary has student body of over
1000 students.
Recently the George Wythe House
came on the market. It adjoins the
Bruton Parish churchyard, and oc.
cupies practically the whole of the
rest of the square upon which the
church and churchyard are located.
1t is a substantially built brick house.
erected about 1855 by Richard Talia-
ZERO. His daughter, Elizabeth, mar
ried George Wythe. They inherited
Ene house. Here Wythe lived while
an Williamsburg, and here George
Washington made his headquarters
curing the Yorktown campaign.
Bruton Parish. through its rector.
Or. Goodwin. dean of William and
Mary College, last spring borrowed
from Richmond bank the $4,000
necessary to purchase the George
Wythe House. This autumn the
Colonial Danes Of America, Chapter
y. undertook to pay off the loan.
George Wythe was the first pro-
lessor OF law in America. He was
a student at the College of William
and Mary, where he afterwards
taught. Among his pupils were
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe,
Edmund Randolph, and Chief Justice
John Marshall. Henry Clay studied
law in Wythe's office.
Wythe was a, signer of the DecIa.
ration Of Independence. He de.
signed the seal of Virginia. He was
9 vestryman In Bruton Parish
Church. He served with Jefferson
on the committee which drafted the
1irst statute establishing religious
liberty, and he was the first chan.
GelOr of Virci1ia