Historic home opens for DAR tea

Published 5:09 pm Saturday, December 6, 2014

By Staff report

Those attending the Wednesday DAR tea will visit this room, the den, at the Rich residence.

THOMASVILLE — The 2014 Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) tea, hosted by the Thomasville DAR chapter, will take place Wednesday at an historic Gordon Avenue residence.

The 18th annual tea will take place at the 1135 Gordon Ave. home of Peggy and Scott Rich, with Mary Tomlinson as event chairman.

The house, a French Renaissance-style structure designed and built by Edward G. Reed in 1938 was the home of Mary Roddenbery and Worth Upchurch.

Mrs. Upchurch lived at the house almost 50 years before selling it to Peggy and Scott Rich in 1985. With the help of William Frank McCall Jr., the Riches remodeled and added a walled pool and wisteria arbor.

After a fire in 2002, Stanley F. Smith was commissioned for a major renovation. Features of the home include original pecky cypress ceilings, a hunting/gun room and arched windows and doorways, and there are many family photos and antiques passed down to Mrs. Rich from her Flowers ancestors.

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The tea is from 3 to 6 p.m., with proceeds going to projects, scholarships and awards funded by the DAR.

The event is open to the public. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.

For more information, call Melody Porter at (229) 226-9860 or email thomasvillegadar@yahoo.com.

The Daughters of the American Revolution is a volunteer women’s service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American History and securing America’s future through better education.

The local DAR chapter, which meets monthly, was founded more than 100 years ago as the Ochlocknee chapter. The name was changed to the Thomasville chapter in 1928.

The DAR tea helps fund education scholarships through the Lois Elam Scholarship Fund and other local, state and national projects.

The Thomasville DAR Chapter encourages education in the community with a cash scholarship to a local graduating senior who will attend college to study history, political science, education, journalism, library science or related fields.

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