Property Values What You Get for ... $700000 - New York Times
What You Get for ... $700,000
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By MIKE POWELL Published: July 16, 2008
Scottsville, Va.
WHAT: An 1860 2,083-square-foot cabin with two bedrooms and two baths, situated on 45 acres
HOW MUCH: $695,000
PER SQUARE FOOT: $333.65
SETTING: Fewer than 600 people live in Scottsville, a no-stoplight or fast-food-restaurant town. Bread, beer and sundries are available at a general store, nearly a mile from the house. A larger grocery store is 15 minutes away. The town's historic district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the James River is a popular place for tubing and kayaking. The house is 45 minutes from the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia , is about 25 minutes away; Washington is another two hours.
COMMON SPACES: Through the entryway is a living room with a stone hearth. The oak beams running along the ceiling were cut from trees on the property and fashioned at a local mill. To the right of the living room is a large open room with southern exposure. One end is used as a dining area, the other as a kitchen. A wood-burning stove in the room's corner has been retrofitted with gas fixtures; the countertops are stainless steel and the floors soapstone. Glass doors lead to an herb garden. A barn on the property can be used for storage.
The staircase — also made of wood cut from the property — winds upstairs to the bedroom. Beyond it is a sitting room, and through glass doors, a small deck. Floors upstairs are wood throughout.
PERSONAL SPACES: The bedrooms — one upstairs, one down — have en suite bathrooms. The master bedroom upstairs has a fireplace.
OUTDOOR SPACE: Fifteen of the property's 45 acres are cleared, revealing dips and mounds in the landscape. There are walking trails running through the property. The current owners keep a garden to the west of the house and grow mushrooms at a nearby creek. The garden offers peaches, grapes and the Albemarle Pippin, a Virginian apple so popular with Queen Victoria that it was once exempted from import tax. The house has a front porch. As leaves fall, Thomas Jefferson 's mountaintop home, Monticello, can be seen from the master bedroom's deck.
AMENITIES: These include two fireplaces, a storage barn, walking trails and a new two-car carport.
TAXES: $1,816 a year
CONTACT: Bill Martin, Charlottesville Country Properties (434) 964-0406; www.charlottesvillecountry.com
Orlando, Fla.
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