Right in out own backyard...
- Thread starter RoseRed
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ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll buy a suite!
L'Town.girl
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Can't beat that estimated monthly payment.
No kidding!
NorthBeachPerso
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Just think of how much workforce housing you could build on that acreage.
I doubt that the people in the potential buyer pool for it will be financing.
I doubt that the people in the potential buyer pool for it will be financing.
sunshine98
Active Member
That would $300K to the county for transfer tax alone. What do they do with windfalls ilke that?
NorthBeachPerso
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Did you look at the pics?
How long before we hear: This property should be turned over to the antecedents of the slaves that built it and labored in the fields! The property is a monument to the suppression, maltreatment and exploitation of blacks in America. As obama said "You didn't build that".
Shortly before his [William Somerville's] death, he increased his slave labor force from 46 to 180 men, women, and children by 1806. An old brick Quarters (perhaps the one that oldtimers remember as dated "1760" on the gable) could not accomodate all, and frame quarters had to be built to house the newcomers. Most, of course, worked in the fields, cultivating mainly corn, wheat, flax, and cotton (Somerville owned an early patent cotton gin). Cooks, stable hands, waiters and housekeepers gave the mansion and the thicket of outbuildings around it the appearance of a busy village. A nearly matched pair of service buildings a kitchen and "workhouse"- still flank the dwelling on its backside [north] its business end. (The unrestored workhouse preserves a rare interior clapboard wall.) A dairy, a meathouse, two carriage houses, and a long granary that once stood nearby have disappeared.
Shortly before his [William Somerville's] death, he increased his slave labor force from 46 to 180 men, women, and children by 1806. An old brick Quarters (perhaps the one that oldtimers remember as dated "1760" on the gable) could not accomodate all, and frame quarters had to be built to house the newcomers. Most, of course, worked in the fields, cultivating mainly corn, wheat, flax, and cotton (Somerville owned an early patent cotton gin). Cooks, stable hands, waiters and housekeepers gave the mansion and the thicket of outbuildings around it the appearance of a busy village. A nearly matched pair of service buildings a kitchen and "workhouse"- still flank the dwelling on its backside [north] its business end. (The unrestored workhouse preserves a rare interior clapboard wall.) A dairy, a meathouse, two carriage houses, and a long granary that once stood nearby have disappeared.
TPD
the poor dad
I did and it needs a lot of work. I actually worked that farm 30 years ago. Never went inside the house but did get some history of it from the owner. 30 years ago it was a run down place. It looks a little better now but not a lot Based on the pics. I’ve worked too many farms in this county with old houses like this to know that I never want to own one - the maintenance alone will put you in the poor house - worse than owning a boat!
I'll bet it's already in preservation.
Son's wife's family lived in a rental house on the property for a couple years. Even it was old and beautiful. And rented dirt cheap.
glhs837
Power with Control
Its a small grove, only 25 acres...
I'm fascinated by the families that can afford places like this. People who have never had to hold a job but live in places like this. A little digging (about five minutes) traces the money trail back to a Colorado ancestor who bought into some few mines back in the 1800s.
The Lennox House: A Mansion Built from Cripple Creek Gold
By Steven Wade Veatch William Lennox (1850-1936), after prospecting in the mountains near Fairplay, Colorado, headed down to Colorado Spr...
coloradoearthscience.blogspot.com
Explains the many Somerville's of black descent in the county.
Yep, many slaves took the masters surname. Notice there are few white Washingtons.....
Grumpy
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Friends of mine owned a golf course in PG with an old mansion on it. They sold the course but kept a sliver of land that had their houses and the mansion. They had grown up in that house and ended up getting it in the 'historical' preservation thingie. The house needed work and when they looked into it, they decided they didn't want to spend the money. They offered it to the developer for 1mil, he took it....then they turned him(developer) into the historical cult for not maintaining it.
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Grumpy
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Guy I worked with had a slate roof on his house in Fredricksburg, cost him 40k back in the early 2000s to have it re-done.