Special Events

Westover's house and lawn provide an ideal and unique backdrop for your memorable events, large or small. The main house can accommodate 60 people for sit-down dinner or 100 for a cocktail format. Larger parties must be held outdoors and require a tent. Please contact us for specific information and pricing.

• Weddings: See what the brides are saying...
• Corporate Events
• Holiday Parties
• Reunions
• Political Fundraisers
• Country BBQs
• Films and Photo Shoots (Westover has been used as a location in films such as G.I. Jane, HBO's John Adams, PBS's The Abolitionists, Field of Lost Shoes and AMC's series Turn)
• Film, Photography & Portrait Sessions

Virginia's Historic Garden Week

Sunday-Monday, April 19+20, 2026

PURCHASE TICKETS

Open together, visitors will enjoy a special combo ticket to three historic properties that have been part of Historic Garden Week since the first tours in 1929. The tour includes access to the extensive grounds, gardens, numerous outbuildings, and first-floor interiors of Historic Berkeley, Shirley, and Westover, as well as nearby Westover Episcopal Church. Nestled along the James River, off scenic Route 5 in bucolic Charles City County, they were settled in the early 1600s as tobacco plantations, with Westover Church serving as the local parish. Their recorded histories date back over 400 years and are interwoven with stories of the earliest indigenous people, European settlers and indentured servants, enslaved Africans, and their descendants through the colonization, founding, fighting, and reconstruction of the United States of America. Virginia and National Historic Landmarks, they are working farms, private homes, and living links to our country’s past.

Westover Events Slideshow