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On 3/24/2021 at 9:58 PM, crockett said:

I'm thinking about moving closer to the beach, meaning first or second row. Saw this home a couple days ago but its off the market. Either way, really like the Mediterranean style. Build in 1949 and completely remodeled in 2009.

 

 

 

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Conceptually I have admired the Roman Villa which surrounded an intimate courtyard while presenting little more than blank walls to the outside world. 

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On 11/23/2020 at 11:26 AM, johnbt said:

The Dooleys had a summer place built in 1912 on Afton Mounain where I-64 crosses going from Charlottesville to Waynesboro at the southern end of the Skyline Drive It's still there.

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"This 1912 Italianate marble villa sits high atop the Blue Ridge Mountains in Afton, VA. Major James Dooley, an executive with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, completed construction of the $2 million Swannanoa in 1912. Dooley, who owned the Maymont estate in Richmond, built this 52-room marble palace as a token of love for his wife, Sally May. More than 300 artisans were hired to create the palace as a replica of the Villa de Medici in Rome. "

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There's a Tiffany window at the top of the staircase.

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Somebody's sihttin' in tall cotton.

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