Home For Sale In Keedysville, Maryland

Susan Reichel

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$395,000

Home For Sale In Keedysville, Maryland

Price:

$395,000

Home Loan:

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BR/BA:

3 BR, 1 BA

Location:

89 S Main St, Keedysville, MD

Description:

Presenting the Wyand Brick House and Farm, per the Maryland Historical Trust, also known as Seven Gates Farm. The value of this unusual, beautiful property is in the history, the many outbuildings, and extensive gardens. If you're looking for the Secret Garden of your lifetime, this it! At the edge of Keedysville, large trees shade the grounds and gardens of extensive hedges, plantings, and boxwoods, w/garden paths, quiet spaces, small formal areas, and accessory buildings. 2 original outbuildings, a wash house and a log smokehouse are behind. There is a cistern w/a pulley hanging from its roof. The 4-bay house is brick-encased log. Chimneys (likely non-functional) rise inside the gable ends, and a bay window allows natural light. A covered porch stretches across the front fa ade and a transom window sits above the front door, likely dating from the 1840's. A two-story wing w/double porches is on the west side of the house. Inside, it is simple, without pretension. The gardens are a different story. Everywhere you go outside on this property there are different species of plants: Flowering, evergreen, deciduous, heirloom, you name it. Every season is beautiful on this little homestead! Once part of an 80 acre farm, it belonged to Jacob Hess, builder/owner of the town's mill, which dominated the community into the 20th century. Early deeds show it was part of original land grants called Resurvey of Fellfoot Enlarged and Hills and Dales and The Vineyard. In 1833, Hess heirs sold the farm to George Geeting, Sr. Twenty years later, Geeting s heirs sold to Simon Wyand. Generations of Wyands divided and sold off land, leaving the current farmstead of.67acre of land. In 1984, it was sold to Dean Johnson and James Cramer, and out of the Wyand family s control for the first time in 131 years. Dean and Cramer were editors of Country Garden and of Country Home, and contributed many articles. They brought their creativity to restoring the neglected house and its grounds. Their efforts resulted in 2 books, Seasons at Seven Gates Farm and Window Boxes Indoors and Out. The house originally had two rooms, side by side, on the first floor. The front door opens into one original room and the bay on the left expands the room. A simple mantel decorates a fireplace, now closed w/a wooden cover and beyond are stairs to the 2nd floor. Woodwork is simply molded w/plain corner blocks. Interior doors have four panels. First floor ceilings were stripped of plaster to reveal joists above and the laths that held plaster were hand split. Floors have been stripped and left bare of finish and true to the period. The other original 1st floor room was split into two. In one room a shallow fireplace has a simple mantel and a brick hearth. In the other room is a full bathroom. Behind the front rooms and 2steps down, is the kitchen wing w/a large cooking fireplace that burns with gas logs. Log walls have been exposed here and there are narrow back stairs. There is also a door to the lower porch and another doorway opens to a pantry.For more details: https://realtyww.info/homes_keedysville-d550580/for-sale_i71098906

Property Type:

Single-Family Houses

Amenities:

Fireplace, Patio/Deck

Posted:

April 26 on RealtyWW

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