12 The Rappahannock Valley Garden Club
LAVUE
3232 LaVue Ln
Fredericksburg 22408
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Named to honor French Huguenot relatives
of the Alsop family, the home is entering its third
century with original floors, doors and plaster walls,
and a floorplan that hasn’t changed since 1834.
George Alsop built this Georgian house, situated on
a high ridge overlooking 1,500 acres that stretched
to the Rappahannock River, for his son, John, in
1818. The clay for the bricks, the supporting timbers
and the heart of pine flooring were all taken from
the property. Doubled in size by the L-addition in
1834, the hallway and parlors were also decorated
with intricate stenciling which appears unchanged
after 184 years. The large parlors are flooded with
light from two large, six-over-six windows in each
room. The men’s parlor has the most decorative
but delicately carved mantel of the home’s twelve
fireplaces. No longer approached from the river side
with its once terraced gardens, the entrance now has
formal boxwood garden rooms and borders near
the house planted with perennials. Located less than
a mile from the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, the
large, L-addition porch served as a triage center
when the house was used as a hospital. The house
remained in the Alsop family for six generations.
Ms. Carole Boniface, owner