Fuel for Hardcore Historical Home Fantasies

Fuel for Hardcore Historical Home Fantasies
Hampton National Historic Site

Thursday, June 24, 2010

1915 Morgan Cottage - Historic Madison, GA



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Just back from a real estate reconnaissance mission to northern Georgia and South Carolina in which we visited the extraordinarily charming historic town of Madison, GA. Street after street of lovely homes. Charming downtown with great antique shops, cute boutiques and pretty good looking restaurants. Just an hour or so outside of Atlanta -- so I figured everything would be very expensive. Not so! For just $489k one can move right into this spacious Georgian Cottage, totally restored, beautiful rocking chair front porch, screened porch, 1st floor updated master bath with heated floor and walk in shower, 2 other bedrooms, modern kitchen, heart pine floors, carriage house, beautifully landscaped with many specimen plants. Located in the heart of the Historic Districtit's just short walk to downtown shopping & restaurants!

Friday, June 4, 2010

"Avoca" 18th Century Stone Manor, Ellicott City, MD





You can barely see this through the trees from Montgomery Road and I had always thought for some reason it was probably neglected and a little run down. Boy was I wrong. This classic mid 18th century Ellicott City stone manor home has quite the array of modern amenities to go along with its yesteryear charm. Modern kitchen, 4 renovated baths, 5 bedrooms, separate apartment, multiple porches, back staircase, 4 fireplaces, new furnace, and 4 original stone out buildings. And it's pretty spacious -- 4,838 square feet. The "bad news" is that it is on 5.38 beautiful acres of prime real estate and is being marketed as "great for investors". Blech! Somebody please buy this at $1,125,000 and treasure it as a fabulous private estate that's minutes to major roads and charming old town Ellicott City.