{"id":2822,"date":"2011-11-08T01:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T05:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2011-11-08T01:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T05:08:45","slug":"rock-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/rock-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cma1122-a1931-bob-fenwick-rock-hill.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Fenwick, Rock Hill\"><br \/>\nThe Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Preservation Virginia has given its 2011 Annual Preservation Award to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macaa.org\/\">Monticello Area Community Action Agency<\/a> and community volunteer <a href=\"http:\/\/votebob.net\/\">Bob Fenwick<\/a> for their work preserving the Rock Hill Estate Gardens. Designed and built in the 1930s by Reverend Henry A. Porter, the minister of Charlottesville\u2019s First Baptist Church, the Rock Hill Estate Garden is the most ambitious and complex private garden landscape in Charlottesville.  Long overgrown, the distinct parts of the garden\u2014the garden terraces, the northern woodlands section, with its switchback trails, and the extraordinary garden wall surrounding the entire site had disappeared from public view.   By marshalling hundreds and hundreds of hours of volunteer effort, using United Way\u2019s Days of Caring and more informal work days, the Monticello Area Community Action Agency, guided by community volunteer Bob Fenwick, has made substantial progress in renewing this significant cultural landscape.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/preservationvirginia.org\/\">Preservation Virginia<\/a> award celebrates this impressive community project in historic preservation and community renewal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Preservation Virginia has given its 2011 Annual Preservation Award to the Monticello Area Community Action Agency and community volunteer Bob Fenwick for their work preserving the Rock Hill Estate Gardens. Designed and built in the 1930s by Reverend Henry A. Porter, the minister of Charlottesville\u2019s First Baptist Church, the Rock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/rock-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rock Hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}