 Glen
Burnie Historical House
The
Glen Burnie Historical Home, located on
the property of the Museum of the
Shenandoah Valley, is the former
residence of James Wood who settled
there in the early 1700s. Later, in 1744,
Wood donated portions of his land for
the city of Winchester Virginia. The
home remained in the ownership of
generations of the Wood and Gas
families, until 1997 when a museum was
opened.
 Today, visitors are welcome to tour the
house led by a docent. The house is
presented as furnished by Julian Wood
Glass Jr, 1910-1992, the last James Wood
descendant to reside in the home. Julian
Wood Glass acquired the home in 1955,
and with the assistance of R. Lee Taylor,
Glass transformed the home into a
retreat, and created the Glen Burnie
Gardens. The home and gardens were
opened to the public in 1997. It wasn’t
until the year 2007 and the addition of
the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, the
anchor of this historic landmark, that
the historic home and landscape became a
year-round regional museum complex.
While the
Museum of the Shenandoah
Valley is open year round, the home and
gardens are not. Tours of the home and
gardens are lead during the months of
March through November. This Winchester
Museum is
regularly open Tuesday through Sunday
from 10 am to 4 pm. Tours are offered at
the historic home every thirty minutes,
concluding with the last tour which
begins
at 3:30 pm.
The abundant history of the Shenandoah
Valley and Frederick County are one of
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Glen Burnie Historical
House //
901 Amherst Street
// Winchester, VA
22601 //
540.662.1473 |
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If you have any questions or would like
more information, please call us at
540.955.0730 or send an email to
paul@paulloveless.com.
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