STUDY TOURS & EVENTS

The Alexandria Association offers enriching opportunities beyond its monthly programs. Study tours have included Georgian houses in Ireland and Scotland abroad as well as numerous homes, gardens and historic sites stretching from Philadelphia to North Carolina.

Past Study Tours & Events

1996 Spring Event on May 4 and 5:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Carlyle House on May 4; a house tour and champagne reception at Bowling Heights in Upper Marlboro on May 5
The proceeds benefited the Carlyle House Historic Park

1996 Study Tour on October 19:
“The Philadelphia Adamesque Neoclassical Tour” featuring William Penn’s home “Solitude,” the Hamilton House and Lemon Hill

1997 Spring Event on May 3 and 4:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Gadsby Tavern Museum on May 3; a house tour and champagne reception at Oakland Green in Lincoln on May 4
The proceeds benefited the Gadsby Tavern Museum

1997 Study Tour on October 18:
A “Historic New Castle: 18th-Century Microcosm” tour of newly or rarely opened private homes and collections

1998 Spring Event on May 2 and 3:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee on May 2 ; a house tour and garden party at Arch Hall on Belmont Bay on May 3
The proceeds benefited the Boyhood Home of Robert E. Lee

1998 Study Tour on October 3:
A “Palladio in Philadelphia” tour featuring the Powell House, Bartram House and Garden, Woodford and Mount Pleasant

1999 Spring Event on May 22 and 23:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at The Lyceum highlighting the opening of the Alexandria 250th Anniversary exhibit on May 22; a champagne garden party in Delaplane on May 23
The proceeds benefited The Lyceum

1999 Study Tour on October 16:
“A Century of The Arts of Pennsylvania” tour featuring the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cliveden, the Deshler-Morris House and Stenton

2000 Spring Event on May 6 and 7:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden on May 6; a house tour and garden party at Mount Gilead in Centreville on May 7
The proceeds benefited the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden

2001 Spring Event on May 5 and 6:
“ A Weekend in the Country” North Ridge house tour and reception at the Carlyle House Historic Park on May 5; a garden party at the Gunnell Log Cabin and tour of Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna on May 6
The proceeds benefited the Carlyle House Historic Park

2002 Spring Event on April 27 and 28:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Gadsby Tavern Museum on April 27; a garden party at Whiteoaks in Historic Old Burke on April 28
The proceeds benefited the Gadsby Tavern Museum

2003 Spring Event on May 4:
A tour of the homes and gardens of Edgemont, Grelen Farm and Mount Sharon Farm in Orange County

2004 Spring Event on May 1 and 2:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Lee-Fendall House & Garden on May 1; a garden party at Darnell’s Chance House Museum in Upper Marlboro on May 2
The proceeds benefited the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden

2005 Spring Event on April 30:
A tour of homes with contemporary architecture and a garden party at the Lloyd House
The proceeds benefited the Lloyd House’s Garden

2006 Spring Event on April 29:
A sponsor reception at the Fawcett-Reeder House, tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Gadsby Tavern Museum
The proceeds benefited the Gadsby Tavern Museum

2006 Study Tour of Georgian Ireland from May 25 to June 4:
In addition to the architectural tours of Dublin and Belfast, tours of the National Gallery of Art, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Marsh’s Library, Casino Marino, Kildare Street Club, Powerscourt Estate, Kilruddery, Russborough House, Trinity College, Newman House, Birr Castle, Florence Court, Baronscourt, Castle Coole, Strangford Lough, Mount Stewart, Grey Abbey House, Cistercian Abbey, Clandeboye, Beaulieu House, Listoke House, Castletown House and Leixlip House

2007 Spring Event on May 5:
A sponsor reception on the 3rd floor of the Bank of Alexandria Building, tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception on the Carlyle House’s Magnolia Terrace
The proceeds benefited the Carlyle House Historic Park

2008 Spring Event on May 3:
“Celebrate American Living — Two Hundred Years of American Home Design” with a sponsors cocktail reception, two lectures and tours of Historic Woodlawn and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House
The proceeds benefited the preservation of both houses

2008 Study Tour of Scotland’s Castles, Estates, Homes & Gardens from June 26 to July 7:
In addition to architectural tours of Edinburgh and Glasgow, tours of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Culross Abbey, Kinross House & Gardens, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Touch Estate, Cromlix House, Ascog House Fenery, Mount Stuart House, Drumlanrig Castle, Holmwood House, Inverary Castle, Strachar House, Culzean Castle and Dumfries House

2009 Study Tour on April 4 and 5:
A tour of Northern Neck homes, including Blandfield, Edenetta, Sabine Hall, the ruins of Menokin, Stratford Hall and Mount Airy

2009 Spring Event on May 2:
A tour of historic homes in Alexandria and reception at the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden
The proceeds benefited the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden

2010 Study Tour on April 10 and 11:
A tour to Tidewater Virginia, including Rural Plains in Hanover County, Chelsea Plantation and Elsing Green in King William County, the Matthew Jones House in Fort Eustis, Newport News, an exterior tour of St. Luke’s Church in the Isle of Wight County, and Bacon’s Castle and Four Mile Tree in Surry County

2010 Spring Event on April 24:
A “Collections, Compounds, and Cocktails” sponsors reception at the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum followed by a “Dining through the Decades” five-course dinner at The Athenaeum
The proceeds benefited the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum

2011 Study Tour on April 2 and 3:
A tour of architectural and historical sites in and around Richmond, including Westover Plantation, Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House, Monumental Church, Egyptian Building, Valentine Museum/John Wickham House, Wilton House Museum, Tuckahoe Plantation and Brook Hill

2011 Spring Event on April 30:
A tour of the Historic Congressional Cemetery monuments followed by a reception
The proceeds benefited Gadsby Tavern Museum

2012 Spring Tour on April 14 and 15:
A tour of Orange and Albemarle County, including James Madison’s Montpelier, “The Lawn” and Rotunda of the University of Virginia, Blue Ridge Farm, Monticello, Redlands and Bloomsbury

2012 Study Tour on December 1 and 2:
A tour of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939,” Clayton, the Frick Art Museum’s exhibition “Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay” and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

2013 Study Tour on November 2 and 3:
A tour of Winchester, including Long Branch Historic House and Farm, the Burwell-Morgan Mill, Carter Hall, Clermont Farm, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Cherry Row, Long Green, Fort Loudoun and Belle Grove

2014 Study Tour on April 12 and 13:
A tour of Philadelphia, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, stops at Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove, Independence Park and the Samuel Powel House, Bartram House and Garden, the Barnes Foundation’s Collection and the Rodin Museum

2014 Study Tour on June 27:
A conservator’s tour of the Constantino Brumidi Corridors of the U.S. Senate

2014 Study Tour on July 12, 2014:
A tour of Winterthur’s exhibition “Costumes of Downton Abbey”

2015 Study Tour on April 18 and 19:
A tour of Annapolis, including the Maryland State House, Hammond-Harwood House, Chase-Lloyd House, William Paca House & Garden, the James Brice House, Ridout House, Jonas Green House, Whitehall Manor and Belair House in Bowie, Maryland

2015 Study Tour on October 27:
A tour of the State Department’s Diplomatic Reception Rooms

2016 Study Tour from April 29 to May 1:
A tour of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and the Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

2017 Study Tour on June 10:
A tour of Baltimore, including the Baltimore Basilica of the Assumption (America’s First Cathedral), Maryland Center for History and Culture, George Peabody Library, Mount Vernon neighborhood, Homewood and the Baltimore Museum of Art

2017 Study Tour on October 26:
A tour of the Virginia Theological Seminary

2018 Study Tour on February 24:
A tour to Richmond for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition “Terracotta Army” and a tour of Masons’ Hall

2018 Study Tour on April 7 and 8:
A tour to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Historic Old Town Chestertown, Comegys Bight House, The Reward House, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and Wye House

2018 Tour on September 15:
A walking tour of notable Alexandria sites during its Civil War occupation

2019 Study Tour on May 11:
A tour to Middleburg

2019 Study Tour on October 19 and 20:
A tour of Norfolk, including the Chrysler Museum of Art, Moses Myers House, Willoughby-Baylor House and The Mariners’ Museum and Park

There were no Study Tours scheduled for 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19 and Omicron.

2022 Spring Event on June 12
A garden party and house tour at the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden
The proceeds benefited the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden

2023 Study Tour on October 23 to 25
A tour to Newport and Providence, including major colonial and eighteenth-century sites in Newport and Rosecliff, Marble House, Bellevue House, Redwood Library, Newport Art Museum, Edith Wharton's Lands End and Greenvale Winery; in Providence, Clouds Hill, the John Brown House and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.