WATERFORD HOMES FOR SALE - HISTORIC COMMUNITY IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA - ACTIVE LISTINGS APRIL 2009.

I do like the historic homes in our area but most of our homes are on small lots.

Your top photo is wonderful and the homes you show here are very different and unique. I liked them both but the scene of the neighborhood in the top photo is my idea of living in beautiful open surroundings. Space seels for a real premium. A few more trees and it is perfection.

That one on the bottom left is intriguing.  Log home or old barn siding?

Your yellow house on the right looks almost identical to a house I downloaded into my Sims game... LOL! I know. I have the most professional comments you've ever read.

Lisa.  What is a Sims game?

Jeff.  It's one of the several remaining log homes in the village of Waterford which dates to about 1688. 

William.  This Toll Bros. community is constructed on former agricustural zoned land.  Many of our communities were built on pasture land.  There are some fully wooded lots in this community but the beautiful "vista" can only be appreciated with a view of the rolling hills and beautiful home sites. 

Terry.  The homes in the historic village of Waterford are all on small lots and there are about 2 blocks of attached homes dating to the 1700s.  The surrounding areas are all "estate lots" of 3 acres or more.

Lenn, That house on the right, the yellow one, is just lovely.  I misread your sentences above, thinking that it was new construction ready for you, but I think I am mistaken and the new construstion is in the links.  I am a historic homes fanatic, and if I had my druthers, my job would be traveling to historic homes in need of renovation, live with them and do the restorations, then move on to the next one.  Your part of the world is just breathtaking, and host to  some real beauties there.

Dedra.  Indeed, we have some of the most spectacular period homes in the nation.  Homes built in the 1700s are prime and, if maintained well, will always have buyers interested in preserving the history. 

Lenn, this sounds like a gorgeous community.  I love the fact that they all sit on large lots.

Twin Cities has beautiful historic homes (not as old as yours), but they are mostly in the city and on city lots, mostly around 1/4 - 1/3 acre.

Happy Easter!

Marzena.

My post is showing two different areas of Waterford.  The 3 acre home site in the new and newer developments.  Then the "in-town" homes in Waterford historic township which are all on small lots.

Lenn- Those homes do look historic. We don't have many :) of those down here. Along the waterfronts, they have preserved some historic districts. But here in Wellington our historic home is like 1979. Building started in the mid 80's though.

Katerina.  That funny.  In my area, a 20 years old home is said to have just "settled".

I sold a home constructed around 1680 in Frederick County MD some time ago.  It was fascinating. 

I love to show them, sell them.  Wouldn't want to live in one of them, no closets.

Lenn,

That log home is just so interesting to me.  I love history, and am amazed that homes dating to the 1600s are still around.  In another lifetime, I'll buy one from you.  The oldest thing I own in this lifetime is a first edition of a book on Samuel Johnson's letters.

Mike in Tucson

Mike.  I find them fascinating too.  Hand hewn logs and a mud like substance and they've lasted 250 years. 

Samuel Johnson, the English author???

Having worked at a "house" museum, Winterthur for more than 20 years I love each of these houses in their own way. Only once have I had a client specificially ask for a post and beam house and we did find one. Not as gorgeous as this though.

Janice.  We have many in this area.  Over the years, I've had far more inquiries about the "antique homes" than actual sales.  It is a romantic idea for many, but few actually wish to live in one.

Pretty country up there. I lived in Frederick and Hagerstown...except it does get cold! Good luck with these.

Gary.  It only gets cold here when compared to any place farther south.