Sponsors: The Garden Club of Danville and The Gabriella Garden Club

Tickets: $20; single-site, $8; ages 6-12, half-price

Info: (434) 791-4040; www.VAGardenweek.org

Danville is known for its fashionable homes of Edwardian and Victorian architecture especially those found on "Millionaire's Row." It has also been called the "City of Churches."

Tour highlights:

135 Hawthorne Drive (Mrs. David J. Macpherson, owner) is a sophisticated, 57-year-old red-brick home that has been featured on "Good Morning Virginia."

The foyer boasts an Italian marble floor, antique chandelier and pineapple ceiling medallion painted by Phil Ramsay.

Over the marble fireplace is a framed 100-year-old child's green velvet suit, made for the owner's father by her grandmother. Of particular note is a family heritage screen, painted by Ramsay, with scenes of the owner's childhood on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.

Outside, a slate deck overlooks a three-tiered walled garden and boxwood plantings.

This 1885 Queen Anne at 234 Jefferson Ave. (C.B. Maddox and William J. Wellbank, owners) has been beautifully restored.

Stained-glass windows, antique chandeliers, Oriental rugs, detailed fireplace mantels of mahogany and oak, heart-pine floors and wainscoting bring character to the interior. Two large weeping cherry trees accent the expansive back garden and lovely flower beds add color.

Once known as the Link-Watson building in the Warehouse District, 308 Craghead St. (Mr. and Mrs. James Cheatham, owners) now holds fashionable urban lofts.

Four commercial units comprise the first floor, and 21 residential condominiums are above, including No. 211, the developer's own space.

The urban lofts now boast arched windows, heart-pine shelving and sliding fire doors. During renovation, a technique known as corncob blasting allowed the removal of old paint without damaging the wood.

The red brick hillside house at 429 Linden Place (Eddie and Ellen Beville Mitchell, owners) was built in 1954. It's furnished with heirlooms, collections and artwork assembled through the years.

A 1943 bird print, "The Shamburger," is a prized find. The walnut Hepplewhite desk in the living room dates to 1795, and fiddle back Empire chairs flank a corner curio with a Wedgwood collection.

The remodeled kitchen has porcelain countertops, a needlepoint rug, a collection of teapots and Staffordshire figurines.

*See where original materials meet modern technology at the urban lofts at 308 Craghead St..