Just another ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS SPRING DAY!

Well, that might depend on where you are today.  Are you stuck in the City? Still wishing you had the nerve to take advantage of the terrific prices in the current real estate market?

You have a unique opportunity to own a historic home that is over 125 years-old and has only had THREE owners in that long-span of time.  Are you wondering why there have been so few owners over such a long period of time? Because once you live here, you won’t want to leave!

If  you were here  . . .you would be enjoying an unbelievably beautiful Spring Day.  You would be rambling around your spacious 125-year-old Victorian home.

You would be relaxing in a pair of your favorite jeans and knocking around the hundred-plus-year-old English boxwood gardens picking flowers on a lazy Saturday morning.  Then you’d be enjoying a great cup of fresh brewed coffee while you take your time and assemble lovely arrangements to scatter around the house.

Yesterday, upon returning from a brief Washington, D.C. business trip, (and thankful that it takes only a few hours drive, and only two turns, to get from downtown Washington, D.C. to my doorstep); my owner was astounded at the number of blooms bursting everywhere on my lovely grounds.  (What, you are not used to a house talking to you?  This is MY blog, remember?)

It took less than five minutes to gather and assemble this outrageously beautiful arrangement!

If you want to escape the city, this IS the place to accomplish your dream.  If you enjoy the beauty of nature, bird watching, gardening, growing and arranging flowers – you will be in heaven on my grounds.  All of this for less than the price of a condo in the city!

Priced to entice at $348,843.00, it’s time to take your dreams seriously.  What are you waiting for?

Life is what happens while you are making plans.

Lovely Victorian farmette for sale on Eastern Shore of Virginia. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 half baths; 3.5 +/- acres numerous outbuildings.  Come for a weekend and stay for a lifetime.  Escape the city and enjoy your life!

Pink Dogwood tree in backyard.

Towering Bay Tree next to Beautiful White blooming tree in back yard.

Pink Camellia's in the side yard.

White Lilacs blooming in foreground of 100+ year-old Crepe Mrytle

White Camellia's blooming on shady side of house.

No, seriously . . . What are you waiting for?!

Unlimited flowers at your finger tips!

Got Bathrooms?

Well, as a matter of fact . . .

Not only do I have bathrooms, I have beautiful, over-sized bathrooms!  In fact, I have three full bathrooms and two half bathrooms.  Both half baths have enough space to add a tub or shower in case THREE full baths are not enough!

Above are a couple of pictures of the upstairs bathroom that offers a DOUBLE Whirlpool tub, plus shower!  This bathroom has TWO doors.  An entrance from the hall plus a door from the bedroom.  Nothing like enjoying a soak in a spacious tub full of soothing bubbles at the end of a busy day at work or a long day in the saddle!

If you lived here you could be relaxing in the double whirlpool tub with a mint julep right about now!

OK, on to another bathroom.  This one is not as large as the double whirlpool bathroom, but it is just as pretty with its distinctive black and white tile!  It has a shower.

There is one more full bathroom with a small clawfoot tub and separate shower and double vanity.  Good sized room, I will try to take some pictures tomorrow and upload them to this post.

Downstairs there are two half bathrooms.  One has a red theme and the other yellow.

and the yellow themed half bath (both have the lovely black and white tile):

It is beautiful on the Eastern Shore every month of the year but especially in the spring and especially right here on this lovely property.  All flowers pictured were picked from the gardens here on the property the same day the photos were taken.

 

Lovely Victorian farmette for sale on Eastern Shore of Virginia. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 half baths; 3.5 +/- acres numerous outbuildings.  Come for a weekend and stay for a lifetime.  Escape the city!

The view from 1,000 feet above my rooftop.

A friend was kind enough to do a ‘fly by’ and share a few photo’s from above my roof.  So from 1,000 feet I can honestly say, ‘water view’.

This is the view East from above this glorious Victorian farmette for sale in Eastville, VA

5 BR

3 BA   2 half BA,

3,500 sf +/-    3.5 ac +/-

Lines are approximate. (Note these lines have changed and now include the field immediately behind and 50′ less on the east side.) Property contains many outbuildings in addition to the 3,500 sf +/- Victorian home.

This is the view west, towards the Chesapeake Bay from above my rooftop overlooking the town of Eastville, VA

Lovely Victorian farmette for sale on Eastern Shore of Virginia. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 1/2 baths; 3.5 +/- acres numerous outbuildings.  Come for a weekend and stay for a lifetime.  Escape the city!

Traffic Jams & Tail Lights or Fins & Tail Feathers? It’s up to you.

If you are looking for a place with a high quality of life, look no further than Eastville, Virginia.  If you are shopping for real estate you have found a home you will treasure!

Isn’t it time you escape the city and embrace the life you’ve been dreaming about? Life is what happens while you are planning for tomorrow.

If you are not careful, you will miss the opportunity to enjoy everything your life has to offer today!

Don’t waste time sitting in traffic, clenching the steering wheel staring at tail lights when you commute to work.  You could be enjoying a beautiful drive across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel watching sea birds and dolphin and actually enjoying the drive.

Wouldn’t that be a welcome change from the stressful start to your day while you sit in traffic?  Can’t you feel the warm breeze and hear the waves and seagulls laughing now?

5 Bedroom, 3 BA 3,500 s.f. +/- Victorian farmette on acreage.  What are you waiting for?  (757) 678-7200

Eastern Shore Victorian Home for Sale is a Birdwatchers Paradise

The Eastern Shore of Virginia is in the migratory flyway.  There are so many species that traverse the shore at one time or another it would be impossible to list them all!

LOL! How did he get in there?

But, I digress …Luckily, some other websites have made the attempt!

Eastern Shore of Virginia and Fisherman Island
National Wildlife Refuges : Bird Checklist

and

The Nature Conservancy and Partners Restore Important Bird Migration Habitat Along Virginia’s Eastern Shore

The Nature Conservancy

Eastern Shore Of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge

A Bird-Watcher’s Paradise

If you lived here, you could watch birds everyday from your back porch, or front porch, or side porch . . .

Lovely Victorian farmette for sale on Eastern Shore of Virginia. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 1/2 baths; 3.5 +/- acres numerous outbuildings.  Come for a weekend and stay for a lifetime.  Escape the city!

If you lived here you would have more productive days hunting and fishing.

That’s right.  If you lived here you would have the added bonus of living only minutes from the best saltwater fishing on the East coast and the best hunting in Virginia.

It is a well know fact that the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Shore of Virginia offer the best fishing on the entire East Coast!

Couple that with the best and most plentiful deer and turkey hunting in Virginia and you have nirvana for most real men (and the good women that go with them)!

Did I mention the Palmer/Nicholas golf courses only minutes away?

Top it off with a house that has enough room for you AND all your great hunting and fishing buddies and YOU WILL be the most popular guy in town!

This 1886 Victorian home offers 3,500 +sf (+/-)  5 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2 half baths and almost 3.5 acres.  That is plenty of space for not only your boat, but your friends boats too!  http://wp.me/p1ruXx-18

What are you waiting for?  Life is what happens while you’re making plans to start living tomorrow.

If you lived here, you could have welcomed spring via horseback.

Life is what happens while you are making plans to do something, ‘tomorrow’.

You could have welcomed spring riding your horse on the nearby trails.  But you didn’t because you keep putting off actually moving forward with your dream of buying a house in the country.

Now is a great time to act on your dream of, “someday I will own a house in the country.”

Unless you make it happen you will never get there.  Someday is today.  Make tomorrows dreams yesterdays happy memories.  Put this house on your list of, ‘Must See’  houses and make an appointment to actually come and see this wonderful house.

You’ll be glad you did.  Call my owner at 757 678 7200 or call your favorite agent and they will call my owner!  I was previously under contract but the buyers contract fell through on their house; which means (drum roll, please) I am CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR SALE!  Make your appointment today.

You could have spent the day enjoying your house in the country.

Yep, you could have been here today getting a new lease on life and getting your creative juices flowing.  Instead, you spent another beautiful Saturday either trapped in an overcrowded city or languishing away your vitality in a boring suburb.

Isn’t it time to escape the city?  The song birds here today were singing their hearts out!

The blooms are starting to cover the trees.  The daffodils are really starting to bloom. The rare Snakeshead iris is blooming now too.

This property is so large there is more than one driveway.  The barn drive gives you a good idea how far we sit back from the road.  The winter blooming camellia’s are immersed in blooms.  The bay tree out back towers over most of the other trees.  You will have a lifetime supply of bay to cook with or share with friends.  The silhouette of the stately 125 year-old walnut will make you stop and reflect.

My current owner loves it here and recognizes it has been a privilege to live here but is now downsizing.  That leaves me in search of a new owner.

I have been lucky to have had only 3 owners in my long life.  Three owners over a one hundred and twenty five year period is almost unheard of.  My owners have all cherished living here.  That is an accomplishment I feel I have a right to be proud of!  The average house can’t hold on to an owner longer than three to five years.  Imagine, feeling disenchanted in such a short period of time!

Most houses just don’t offer the charm and ambiance that I have.  No doubt they don’t offer the versatility or easy flowing floor plan either.  And I know they are not built to last like I am.  The trees and shrubs that surround me are mature.  That walnut tree was planted the same year I was built.  Most folks have never seen a 125 year-old walnut tree.  And the boxwood gardens are true English boxwoods.  Not those wannabe psudo-boxwoods.

It is true, there are flowers blooming here twelve months out of the year.  These were just picked today.  My current owner has planted over 15,000 blooming bulbs and plants over the last 17 years.  Oh, and of course those camellia’s have been here for decades.

Isn’t it time for you to escape the city?  I’m spacious enough for you to run a B&B here, have a retreat, invite your extended family or just revel in over 3,500 s.f. of historic living space.

I’m located an easy drive to New York, New Jersey, PA, NC, DE, Maryland or any place in Virginia.

Romantic, historic, spacious Victorian home a true farmette for sale.  Five Bedrooms, 3 Baths plus 2 half baths; almost 3.5 acres with numerous outbuildings including hobby house or kennel, barn, run-in shed and space for horses!

The horse is begging to go for a jaunt, oh and the dog wants to go too!  The view overlooking the English boxwood gardens.  And flowers just picked fresh this afternoon.

Escape the City! Lovely gardens seek new owner!

The trees and gardens surrounding me are starting to bloom!  The trees are filled with song birds!  

Aren’t you ready to escape the city?!  If you live in Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey or any city and you long for space to stretch your legs; where your family can grow and enjoy nature I want to meet you.

I am looking for a new owner.  My current owner has lived here for almost 17 years but is now ‘downsizing’.  I am 125 years old and I have been loved and cherished by all three of the families that have called me, ‘home’.  My rooms have been used for endless hours of entertainment, dinner parties, weddings, baby showers and peaceful slumber too.

Some would call me a, “historic property”, some might not be so generous and might just call me an, ‘old house’.

Some would say I am a, “vintage property” or a, “farmette”, a “fine old estate”, a “mansion” (lol).

I am all of following:

Real Estate For Sale

Property for sale

Historic home for sale

For sale by owner

Farmette for sale

I could be a Bed & Breakfast or B & B.  You might have a home office here or an in-law suite.  I have many rooms you could call a, ‘family room’ or ‘den’.  I have many outbuildings including barn, workshop, run-in shed, garage – just about anything you might want.

I also have beautiful blooms surrounding me twelve months out of the year.  How can that be? I’m glad you asked.  I am surrounded by winter blooming camellia’s.  They start blooming in November and bloom right through to April.  Then all the other trees, shrubs and plants are in bloom too!

Will you be shopping for real estate?  I hope you will add me to your list of properties to visit.  Families who have lived here have cherished me and I in return have taken great care of them.  My beams are sturdy, my roof is slate and my charm is neverending!

At the end of the day I don’t really care what you call me, as long as you call me, “home”.

P.S.: If you are a real estate agent you can earn up to a 4% commission for a successful sale and if you are lucky the new owner might invite you back for a mint julep on my lovely veranda.

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For Sale:

A peaceful life at a glorious Victorian home located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Step back in time and enjoy spacious rooms with high ceilings, beautiful wood floors, 5 BR, 3 BA (one with a double whirlpool tub), 2 half baths, eat-in kitchen.  Room for kennel or your horse, even a bed & breakfast (subject to local zoning requirements).

I offer over 3,500 s.f. +/- and all of the beautiful grounds.  It would cost more than twice my price to build a house that would offer half the charm I offer.  You just cannot manufacture the skill that went into each board and beam from the hands that built me 125 years ago!   For appointments call (757) 678 7200