Kitchen Kaper Tour Features Home, Food, Flowers
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
The GFWC of Ephrata will spon
sor its 16th Kitchen Kaper Tulip
Tour on Monday, April 28, from
9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Nine stops along the way of
this year’s tour will feature kitch
ens primarily and other areas of
homes. Most of the locations will
feature floral arrangements do
nated by local florists and food
samples prepared by local restau
rants.
• The tour begins at The Eich
er Arts Center, Museum, and
Shoppe, located along the Cocali
co Creek in the Ephrata Park
where tour tickets with brochure
and map can be picked up. In ad
dition, a rest area with rest rooms
and refreshments are offered.
Ephrata T.R.A.C.K. (Teens Re
sponding To Adult Caring and
Kindness) will have a table of
crafts for sale. The Eicher Arts
Center offers educational, artis
tic, and cultural events free to the
public.
• The Boxwood Inn Bed and
Breakfast. This building is locat
ed at 1320 Diamond Street,
Akron, a 1768 farm house boast
ing a dining room with original
built in china cabinets and two
comer cabinets with handmade
lattice woodwork. The living
room shows a handmade wooden
comer wall cabinet and mantle.
Original hardwood floors and
doors with original hardware
have been preserved.
Situated on three acres plus of
peaceful countryside, the Box
wood Inn offers solitude, hospi
tality, and comfort. A 30-foot
garden room overlooks a slate
patio that leads to the gardens, a
natural stream and an expansive
landscape of holly, chestnut, wal
nut, and willow trees.
The owners, Greg and Betsy
have renovated the
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four rooms in the Inn and a car
riage house over the garage.
However, the ambiance of the
235-year-old property has been
maintained.
• Lynn Bames and Richard
Smith are the proud owners of
114 Brickyard Circle, Ephrata,
built on the site of the old Ephra
ta Brickyard, once playground
for children, hunters, and ducks.
Lynn and Richard decided to re
tire here exciting years of teach
ing for the U.S. Department of
Defense. They brought with them
collections of antiques and arti
facts from France, Austria, Ger
many, England, and other loca
tions.
• The home of Roger and
Lynne Kline, 650 Ridge View
Drive, offers some of the very
best views of Clay Township and
Northern Lancaster County. The
federal style construction has
been remodeled in the past two
years to compliment and open up
a view both from within and out
side. While each room has its
own style, the spaciousness al
lows for family unity room to
room.
The Klines are amateur gar
deners, always trying new things
flowers, plants, and garden
vegetables as the yard matures. A
water garden was added during
the remodeling that affords relax
ation from the sound of water
flowing year round.
• The Old Carriage House
Shoppe, at 2425 West Main
Street, Ephrata is a quaint coun
try shop located on Rt. 322 in the
village of Clay. The proprietor is
Sherrie L. Miller. This
200-year-old lime and sandstone
building features original wood
beams, a walk-in stone fireplace
and brick flooring. It offers cus
tomers a unique shopping experi
ence for floral creations, antiques,
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• The residence of Owen and
Beulah White, 1131 Marilyn Ave
nue in Ephrata, will be a delight
to anyone who has but one bear
in their own home. Beulah has
300 bears in her collection.
• The Ephrata Church of the
Nazarene along Rt. 322 west of
Ephrata at 110 Durlach Road
moved into its new location on
Easter Sunday of 2001. The sanc
tuary seats 750 in a building that
houses both church and school
(K thru 12).
• Robert and Jan Johnson 11,
Snavely Mill Road live in a house
originally built in 1802, super
seded only by the bam, a year
earlier, where the Snavely’s lived
until the house was constructed.
The house is of stone with deep
window sills and soft wooden
floors. The entrance/dining area
was once the kitchen and the
present kitchen was once the
gathering room. Two bedrooms
are part of the original building.
The present living room, added
30 years ago, was once a summer
kitchen. The family room, laun
dry, baths, and an upstairs bed
room were added 14 years ago.
Kitchen cupboards were crafted
from planks of wood recovered
from the original attic. This func
tional house is cool in summer
and kept warm in winter by a
large stone fireplace. Situated on
five acres of land, an original
bank bam stands across from the
old Snavely Mill.
• James and Amy Artz, Mar
tin Avenue, have a pleasant two
story brick dwellingm where a
number of antique items are
found in the kitchen. A fully fin
ished basement features a wide
collection of fire fighting memo
rabilia which was begun by
James’ parents at his early age of
two years. Included are more
than one hundred miniature
fire trucks and various
patches.
For reservations, call Mar
ion Shook at (717) 733-7677
or Edith Graff at (717)
336-4719. Tickets are
limited.
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The Boxwood Inn is one of nine stops featured during
the annual Kitchen Kaper Tour. Tickets are limited and
should be ordered in advance for the opportunity to tour
residences, sample food served by area restaurants, and
view indoor and outdoor floral displays.
Rooms-To-View Tour
Benefits Historical Landmark
BETHLEHEM (Lehigh Co.)
Some of the Lehigh Valley’s most
distinctive historic and contem
porary homes will be open for a
rare view of their furniture, an
tiques, interior design, and land
scaping as part of Historic Beth
lehem Partnership’s (HBP) 11th
annual Rooms to View house
tour, Saturday April 26 from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. The nine houses on
story from the 2002 Lebanon
County Dairy Royalty? Come to
the Lebanon County Dairy Prin
cess Pre-Tea, Midway Church of
the Brethren, Saturday, April 26,
from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Directions to the Midway
Church of the Brethren: From
Rt. 322, turn east on Evergreen
Road (the road in front of the
fairgrounds). At the first road on
left, turn left, and immediately
bear left. The red brick church is
on the right. Any questions, con
tact Alisha Risser, (717)
274-8707, or Sherry Bashore,
(717) 865-3161.
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the tour are located in Bethle
hem, Fountain Hill and the Sau
con Valley. Tickets for the house
tour, if ordered in advance, are
$2O for the general public and
$l5 for members of HBP. All
tickets are $25 if purchased the
day of the tour.
A boxed lunch is available for
$l2 if ordered by April 18.
Preceding the tour, on Friday,
April 2S from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
will be a preview evening, cock
tails and hors d’ouevres at an ex
traordinary farmhouse estate.
Tickets for the preview evening
are $75 apiece and include the
tour the next day.
Proceeds of the tour benefit the
preservation and educational
work of Historic Bethlehem Part
nership.
To order tickets in advance or
for more information, call (610)
882-0450, ext. 10. Tickets may
also be purchased at the Moravi
an Museum, 66 W. Church
Street, the Kemerer Museum of
Decorative Arts, 427 N. New
Street and the 1810 Goundie
House, 501 Main Street between
noon and 4 p.m., Tuesday
through Sunday. Tickets may be
purchased the day of the tour at
the Moravian Museum, 66 W.
Church Street, Bethlehem.