Show FEW TOURIST FAIL TO VISIT SULGRAVE MANOR the small village of sulgrave in the english midlands possesses no striking features yet ta in the last few years it has become the goal ot of many pilgrimages gr and the tha object of many I 1 excursions cur curs tons people now visit it by thousands for here stands tho the ancestral home of Washington the family lawrence washington built the manor house toward the middle of the sixteenth century in the first half ot the nineteenth century an american writer arlier visiting england englana made his way to the tha village la one of his bis books be gave a brief description of the old bouse ones it was a quiet rural neighborhood where the farmhouses were quaint and antiquated A part only of the manor remained and was III ID colored glass glasa the washington crest in colored glass was to be seen in a window of what was now the buttery A window on which whdeh the whole family arms was em blazoned had bad been removed the house waa was purchased by a british committee and a plan pian of restoration was carried out decay has been arrested rude additions removed old craftsmanship and old beauties revealed the fragment of the ancient clent dwelling Is itself again the house at B ridge bridge creek near the potomac river where george I 1 washington was born Is gone not a trace of it remains but this the house bouse at sulgrave in Northampton shire where his english ancestors lived stands and has became famous the photographer accompanying this article were hakea by a party of visitors to sulgrave manor last summer |