Our Locations

Land of Excess features locations throughout The Greater Washington Metropolitan Area. But because our founder’s ole stomping grounds were Great Falls and McLean, VA, she has a special affinity for those locales, and co-incidentally Great Falls and McLean (as well as the more precocious-in-McMansioning Potomac, MD, just across the Potomac River) continue to spawn the biggest and most elaborate McMansions. A brief summary of these three towns follows. More description of other locales in The Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area will be coming soon!!!

Great Falls, VA

Nike Missile Site Historical Marker

Nike Missile Site Historical Marker

Home to AOL executives, lobbyists, government contractors, and others who never saw a heaping pile of construction materials that they didn’t like. Especially in the what they consider the “country”. Scattered about betwixt the McMansions are more modest dwellings, remnants of a former age. When placed on the market for sale, those modest dwellings are given the deadly moniker of “teardown”.

According to http://factfinder2.census.gov/, Great Falls has a population 15,427: 80.5% are white people, 1.8% are black people, 13.5% are Asian people, 3.9% are Hispanic/Latino people. There are 5,179 total housing “units”. 5.8% of those housing units are occupied by renters. 42.7% of housing units have 5 or more bedrooms. 46% of households have 3 or more vehicles “available”. Median household income is $206,344. Mean household income $282,079. Per capita income is $86,747.

McLean, VA

Interior View, McLean Bible Church

Interior View, McLean Bible Church

Same sorts of professional types live here as in Great Falls, except McLean is home to a greater number of prominent Republicans than Great Falls, hence bigger and showier residential buildings are preferred. McLean is also, sort of, home to the Republican-networking-nirvana McLean Bible Church, which is actually sited in Vienna, VA , a fact for those of you in the reality-based community. Wikipedia tells us: “The vision statement of McLean Bible Church is to “make an impact on secular Washington with the message of Jesus Christ.”” McLean is closer in to Washington, D.C., “inside the beltway” as they say, and is more densely developed than Great Falls.

http://factfinder2.census.gov/ tells us that McLean has population of 48,115, 79.3% of which are white people, 1.8% of which are black people, 14.9% of which are Asians, and 4.9% Hispanic or Latino. Total housing units: 17,756. 14.6% of those housing units are renter occupied. 31% of housing units have 5 or more bedrooms. 30.4% of households have 3 or more vehicles “available”. Median household income is $170,933. Mean household income is $238,881. Per capita income is $87,396.

Potomac, MD

The Leader of the Pack in McMansioning! The founder of Land of Excess recalls sitting in the back of the family station wagon gawking at the houses as we drove down River Road in Potomac. Decades ahead of McLean and Great Falls, Potomac used to be THE place to live for the fancy and/or ostentatious class, but alas no longer holds exclusive rights– McLean and Great Falls have gained ground. Potomac also used to be very horsey, less so now due to development.

Glenstone, a private museum in Potomac, MD founded by Mitchell Rales and his wife Emily Wei Rales.

Glenstone, a private museum in Potomac, MD founded by Mitchell Rales and his wife Emily Wei Rales.

http://factfinder2.census.gov/ tells us that the population of Potomac is 44,965. 75.8% white, black 4.6%, Asian 15.9%, Latino 6.4%. Total housing units: 16,103. 12.1% rental units. Median household income $172,394. Mean household income is $242,771. Per capita income $87,196. 33.5% of housing units have 5 or more bedrooms. 26.9% of households have 3 or more vehicles available.