Description

Located just 70 miles from Washington, DC and within a few miles of James Madison's Montpelier estate, Maple Lawn Farm features a 1799 main house and several dependencies, renovated to the standard of today's luxury home buyer. The manor house offers 4 large bedrooms, 5 fireplaces, a stunning gourmet kitchen, family room with stone fireplace, gracious formal living and dining rooms and a charming conservatory overlooking the multiple terraces, all with magnificent views. In addition to the main house, additional historic buildings on the property include a one room school house, now a picturesque office, a summer kitchen which now doubles as a charming guest cottage, a smoke house, and manager's office. Additionally, there is a large two story clapboard house which can easily be converted to a guest residence, a spacious studio/museum and a 3 car garage with workshop. The grounds include a large pool and tennis court, both bordered by magnificent boxwoods and other evergreens. From the double magnolias framing the front of the main house, to the allees of century old boxwoods to the pond which greets guests and residents as they drive up the entryway to the estate, you will find the grounds of Maple Lawn to be breathtaking. Whether Maple Lawn is your primary residence or second home, a venue for entertaining weekend guests or sanctuary for absolute relaxation, or a family compound with activities from skeet shooting and equestrian sports to pool and tennis activities, you will find it to be a residence that transports you to another place and time. As DC, Charlottesville or Richmond people might say, 'It's just far enough away that you can leave everything behind." The estate can also be reached via regional airport a few miles away, as well as VRE (Virginia Rail Express) or Amtrack from DC and beyond.