Evangelist Buys N.C. Senator Simmons' Country Home Outside of Washington, D.C., June 26, 1923

Senator Simmons (photo from northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/furnifold-mclendel-simmons-1854-1940/)

Gypsy Smith Buys Country Home of Senator Simmons

Senator Simmons of North Carolina has announced the sale of his country home, Virginia Manor, about 15 miles from Washington, to Gypsy Smith, the evangelist. The Senator said he had found the distance too great to be covered twice a day during the sessions of Congress and that he had decided to return to living in a hotel in Washington. With the manor house the Senior sold one-half of the farm surrounding it, retaining about 60 acres situated on the boulevard to Baltimore as a real estate investment.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, Tuesday, June 26, 1923. The newspaper spelled the evangelist's first name "Gypsy," but the evangelist spelled it "Gipsy" in his book.

"40 Years an Evangelist" written by Gipsy Smith and published in 1923, can be read for free online at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/fortyyearsevange0000gips_m7z1. Accessed June 26, 2023.