March 1, 2015

March 1, 2015

Perusing aerial views as is our wont, Land of Excess was happy to find that the original old silo for Cornwell Farm in Great Falls, VA still stands right next to an elaborate McMansion (see red arrow). We think it is extraordinary that a McMansion owner would tolerate such a thing.  Perhaps this McMansion owner is special.  Anyway, the old Cornwell Farm house stands at lower left (yellow arrow.)  We suppose we haven’t done posts about the old dwelling because we don’t consider it a McMansion.  It is a real Mansion, and we don’t complain about REAL Mansions–  well, we suppose this place, built in 1830, added onto in 1930, and remodeled in 2004, isn’t big enough to be considered a Mansion by current standards.  It was last owned by the super uber realtor extraordinaire Sue Huckaby.  We knew its property well from riding our little half-trained ponies around on it when it was owned by a family named McKnight, and then a family named Opstad.  This is the property on which when our founder was 13 she met the fellow on the motorcycle who she viewed with much excitement as a hippie.  Continuing, the property was offered for sale in September 2013 for $4,900,000 with 13 acres. The price was lowered to $4,500,000 and then further to $3,600,000 and then it finally sold in October 2014 for $3,500,000.   We are just baffled at this , as we consider it quite a bit more desirable than the ugly heaping piles of construction materials that were being offered for more $$ on much less land in the recent past.  We are startled and dismayed to discover that the purchasor was (ugh) Versailles Custom Homes and Developments, Inc.