Custom River Retreat Handcrafted from Antique Materials
A Virgiina Home, Luxurious without being Pretentious
| Start Price |
USD 3,000,000.00 |
| Current Price |
USD 3,000,000.00 |
| Time Left |
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| Bid Count |
11 |
| Buy It Now Price |
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| Reserve Price |
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| Start Time |
Sunday, August 31, 2008 |
| End Time |
Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
| Location |
Earlysville, Virginia |
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UPDATE: We do appreciate the nearly three thousand viewings that this listing has had and the numerous inquiries that we have received.UPDATE 2: Wow... nearly a thousand more hits in a weeks time! And we've picked up more "watchers"... and... more questions. Many pertain to the area... Charlottesville. All I can say is that it is a wonderful area to live. I wouldn't live anywhere else. Moriah is only ten easy minutes from the airport and I'd be happy transport you to and from there. Come take a look.UPDATE 3: With only two weeks left in this listing, we are rapidly approaching 6,000 viewings! and, have now doubled the amount of people watching and requesting additional information. Our appraiser told us last year that this home should easily bring 3.5M if listed with a Realtor who specializes in estates. High end homes in this area continue to hold their value, so take advantage of the savings now by buying directly from the builder. Think of how much better off you'd be if you had invested in this home months ago, rather than the stock market. How much better off will you be a year from now if you seize this opportunity now? Partial financing considered.FINAL UPDATE: With just a couple days left with this listing on eBay, this grand experiment in online marketing is about to come to an end. Thank you all, each and everyone, who has expressed their admiration and appreciation for this property. We are now in talks with several national magazines who want to feature the tale of this unique home. Moriah is an incredible handcrafted home that stands apart in a world filled with McMansions. The home is located in the northwest corner of Albemarle County which surrounds the city of Charlottesville Virginia, the home of Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia. The Charlottesville area is continuously ranked as one of the best small cities in the nation by many magazines including Money Magazine and AARP, and Albemarle County is ranked second in the nation in per capita wealth among it's citizens. The area attracts many celebrities including Sissy Spacek, John Kluge, assorted sports legends including John Elway, and many talented musicians, such as the Dave Mathews Band. All of the nearby properties are of a similar size and price range, including the brick Manor home across the street which was recently purchased by the head developer of the iPhone. The northwest corner of Albemarle is the most desirable section of the county to live, featuring abundant horse farms, mountain views, water sports, shopping, and ease of convenience to the local airport. The home rests on a commanding hillside, featuring nearly 12 acres of meadow and woodlands, with mountain views and abundant water frontage. A year-round babbling brook traverses the property and the parcel features a quarter mile of frontage on the North Fork of the Rivanna River (ranked one of the most pristine in the state). You can even view (and hear) the waterfalls as it spills over the old Advance Mills dam while you relax anywhere on the nearly 3,000 square feet of porch areas. Moriah is newly built, yet offers a rich history. A gem of home with great potential for being much more than "a house in which to live"... she is a retreat from the world, an oasis, and if desired, would make a spectacular Bed and Breakfast.Moriah was groundbreaking in this area for it's use of salvaged antique materials and classic design. The house was built decades ago for one of the area's better known socialites and was well loved and regarded by the community, but as time went by and property values skyrocketed, the house became slated for demolition. Four years ago the painstaking process of disassembling this local treasure began in order to relocate the house 10 miles from its' original location. Piece by piece the house was photographed, numbered, and lovingly rebuilt in the historic Advance Mills community. In Moriah's latest incarnation her timeless exterior has been changed little... cedar siding and roofing are in abundance, stone and copper all speak of her quality. The home's interior layout and features are all new, utilizing the abundance of heart pine and chestnut lumber that once filled the original home. The home offers an open floor plan and modern amenities that one would expect to find in a newly built home.The home offers such unique features as massive beams salvaged from a Shenandoah Valley cotton mill, a vintage hewn oak log cabin from the early 1800's, two massive solid stone chimneys that are built from stone that was salvaged from a 19th century stone bridge out of Pennsylvania. There are three wood burning, and three gas, fireplaces.. six areas where one can sit by a fire and read a good book.. The front door unit is an antique piece, filled with custom leaded glass which cast rainbows in the entry hall at sunset. The floors are wide plank heart pine, wormy chestnut, hemlock, bamboo, and travertine.The house was "rebuilt" by a team of craftsmen from Blue Mountain Builders directed by Noah Bradley (the current owner) who is nationally recognized for his artistry and who has been featured in many national publications including; the Washington Post, Country Living, This Old House, and many more. This project has been the largest and longest project of Bradley's career, spanning nearly four years to complete... this home is the crown jewel of all his works. (for more information on his company visit BlueMountainBuilders.com) The home features a large first floor master bedroom complex, which is located off to one end of the home offering plenty of privacy. The master bedroom offers a fireplace, a fourteen foot tray ceiling, and abundant windows with very pleasant views of the local countryside. There is a private deck off of the bedroom overlooking a calming meadow that would be perfect for horses, gardens, or perhaps a pool. The MB complex offers an abundant walk-in closet with custom wood shelving, a luxurious laundry room, a large sitting room with access to another deck, a gallery with large custom made windows and a travertine "rug" floor, and of course the master bath which is a spa in of itself. Many visitors who view the home comment that the master bath is the highlight of the tour. Radiant heat not only warms the travertine tiled floors in this bath but also wraps the soaking tub and the walls of the walk-in shower. The vanity top is made from Italian marble.There are three very large bedrooms upstairs, each with it's own private bath. All three of these bedrooms are large, unique, and special. One is a quaint log cabin bedroom with a gas fireplace. Another features heart-pine basket-weave patterned floors and a dramatic raised ceiling. The third bedroom offers a fireplace and tall windows that offer the best views in the house. The house is loaded with storage... plenty of closets and multiple insulated attic areas.Back downstairs the house offers a large family/living room with massive beams and wide plank floors, and one of the nicest stone fireplaces ever built. The front entry hall offers a dramatic hand built heart pine staircase with a handrail that was once used by Walt Whitman. There is a home office here on the first floor, trimmed and floored with salvaged vintage wormy chestnut. The dining room is an antique log home and acts as the central gathering place for family and friends, featuring vintage hemlock floors, a fireplace, and a private screen porch, this vintage room adds much warmth to the entire home.All-in-all there are nearly 3000 square feet of porches and decks that can be found on each side of the house, all floored in Ipe, an exotic wood known for it's beauty and durability in outdoor use. These outdoor spaces bring the outdoors into one's daily life and the life enhancing attributes of these verandas cannot be overstated.Of course what would a house be without a kitchen? Considered by many to be the most important room in any house. Here no expense was spared to achieve a five-star experience. The kitchen is large, filled with Amish built cabinets and top-of-the-line appliances. The floor is tiled in natural stone which is heated by the underfloor radiant heat. The layout is well thought out with easy access, abundant storage, and plenty of choices to satisfy any electrical and lighting need. The counter tops are imported leather finish black granite from India. Masterfully designed, no detail overlooked, no expense spared.Then there is the fully finished basement which features a garage, a utility room, a bath, an exercise room, a studio, a pantry, and a spacious family room. The quality that is seen in the main house continues throughout the basement, with quality workmanship, a huge stone fireplace, and natural lighting in abundance.This is a "green" home too. Radiant heat is piped throughout nearly every room of the house in addition to the heat pump system. Insulation in the basement is R-32 thanks to the fourteen inch thick foundation, and the rest of the house has been insulated with low density foam, making for terrific energy savings. This house goes beyond a typical green home in its' eco-friendliness, after all, the construction of this house has gone way beyond the simple use of a few recycled materials, here the entire house has been recycled! This house offers the best of both worlds with regard to the dilemma of owning a new vs old home. Here you can have everything that a fresh new home has to offer, and yet still enjoy that wonderful feeling that only an older home can offer.Moriah has been a favorite place for area realtors, builders, and craftsmen to visit throughout its' construction. The home is an area icon, a house set apart from the rest. Words and photographs cannot do Moriah justice. Consider seeing this home in person. I believe this is a one a kind, once in a lifetime, chance to own a truly remarkable home. One that will fill you with a sense of warmth, of comfort, of security... of being at home. A house of wood and of stone.Moriah is now nearing completion after four years of continuous effort. All that remains is the final landscaping. Act now and you can help choose the final landscaping, or get a generous discount and manage this aspect yourself. Thank you for your time in reading about this wonderful home, I wish I was better at describing her... there is so much more to be said. In looking back over what I've written I can see that I failed to mention that most of the doors and windows are handmade, and that there is an old stone barn foundation nearby that now serves as an herb garden, that there is abundant wildlife to be found on the property, from beavers and black bears, to deer, Canada geese, and bald eagles. The woods are well manicured with many large walnut and sycamore trees.The house has already been featured in the local paper, and was photographed by Plow and Hearth for their annual Christmas catalog. Let me try to wrap this up and say... if you find yourself drawn to items that are handmade, or if you take great comfort in antiques, if you admire the classics, or prefer comfort over glitz, then you really ought to come take a tour of Moriah.
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