Pre-Abandonment Photos of: A Most Unique Abandoned Home In Northern Virginia

February 10, 2020

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Gentle reader,

I recently wrote about and showed photos we made inside the home we are about to show you here, a link is below:

 

A Most Unique Abandoned Home In Northern Virginia INSIDE! Shocking Find!  

That article has a link in it to the original article which shows the photos of the exterior as well as the yard and some unique architecture the house possesses.

The following photos are from two realtor's websites MLS Listings from more than ten years ago when the first (main) floor of the home was available for rent for $2,500 a month.

We have since learned who owned the house and probably built the magnificent addition with a great room and two-car, rear- loading garage added to the original structure which was built in 1953.

He, if we are correct, owns a construction company, and we found his telephone number.

But, since the house and almost forty acres have been sold twice since it was his, we will not disturb him.

Lovely Azaleas and other landscaping flanked the large front porch with wall-to-wall windows of the great room it opens into.

The view from said porch, looking to the left into the front yard. Lattice screen shields a wooden shed, purpose unknown. You can see one of the four water wells the property has, to the right of the tree.

Inside the great room, the left wall is the original outside east wall. You see the inside of the new front door, ahead. 

Just look at all the fine woodwork.

Magnificent open beam ceiling with angled knotty pine between the covered beams. Wagon wheel light fixture lends a Western flair to the room.

This is looking towards the backyard. The door just seen, lower left of center, is reached by a half stair down. You can just see the railing. 

"Behind The Green Door" is this large living room with wood stove, one of three on the two floors all with one massive brick chimney.

The door in the right corner is to the attic stairs. The attic is full length and was built to be lived in, but never finished. Nor was it insulated. There is none in the house, thus the need for wood stoves.

The attic is fully floored with an ornate railing around the stairwell and a window on each end of the house. 

The original front door is on the left. It opens to the only insulation in the house, the exterior brick wall opening was so closely matched outside, one cannot see that it ever held a doorway, nor any sign of the original steps or a porch.

That arched doorway leads from the living room to this dining/family room. Second wood stove is in this room. The third is in the basement, and it too has a wood stove.

A side view of the magnificent built-in bookcase that I fell in love with. An arched doorway from the living room is above where the photographer stood.

I added my own photo to show you just how pretty it is. If only I could transport it AND the great room and garage here.... 

The avocado green dishwasher has been replaced since these photos with a black faced, much more modern one.

The kitchen door, one of four on the back of the house has a beautiful brick porch which doubles as protection for the steps and doorway directly beneath that leads to the basement. 

Green stove is still there, a testament to the build quality since it is decades old. Not seen in either photo is the corner windows to the right of where the photographer stood. 

The entire first floor, save the kitchen and bath, are hardwood. Three bedrooms total.

The house was heated by hot water by a massive oil-fired boiler.

The large single bathroom is quite lovely, if you like green. There are two bathrooms in the fully finished basement, as well as two more bedrooms and a massive room beneath the great room addition.

We hope you have enjoyed this trilogy of articles about a Most Unique Abandoned Home in Northern Virginia.

Since the property was sold last month for almost four million dollars, and we could not afford to restore and update the vandalized house, we can only imagine what it would be like to have more room than we need to live in.

Did I tell you there is a separate heated three car garage there as well?

Thanks for reading these articles. I love photographing and writing and in this case, researching them. Your kind words here and one Facebook keep me writing. 

Scott and Nancy

February 10, 2020