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An 18th-century plantation house in Woodruff, a timber-frame house in Fairfield and a midcentury-modern home in Salt Lake City.
By Julie Lasky
Woodruff, S.C. | $664,900
A 1793 plantation house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Nicholls-Crook House is the oldest brick house in Spartanburg County. Once part of a 1,300-acre cotton plantation, the building is surrounded by more than two acres of lawns and gardens, near an 18-hole golf course. It is about 20 minutes from the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport.
Size: 3,636 square feet
Price per square foot: $183
Indoors: The house underwent a major renovation in the 1970s that incorporated modern plumbing, heating and cooling. The current owners, who bought the property in 1987 and ran it for a decade as a bed-and-breakfast, updated the kitchen and bathrooms, professionally landscaped the property and last year replaced the roof.
Beyond the front door and straight past the staircase is a combined kitchen and dining room with a peaked, open-beamed ceiling, an exposed brick chimney, cabinets made from wormy pine, a fireplace and an adjacent powder room. Beyond that is a master suite with toile wallpaper, a pink bathroom and French doors opening to a courtyard with a covered porch.
Next to the dining room is a formal living room with an Adam-style fireplace mantel restored with its original Spanish brown-and-gold-painted finish and delft tiles surrounding the firebox. This room is connected to a library with period built-in bookshelves and a pair of fireplaces.
On the second floor are two bedrooms that share a bathroom, and a closet fitted out with plumbing for a washer and dryer. The third floor has a large open bedroom and study and a bathroom with a shower. Stairs in the kitchen descend to a basement with a fireplace.
Outdoor space: The property includes a boxwood-parterre garden (a couple of the landscape’s many boxwoods were grown from cuttings taken at Mount Vernon), an herb garden, a camellia garden and a garden whose centerpiece is a sculpture inspired by a petroglyph. Daffodils have made spring appearances for almost a century, and the specimen trees include pecans, oaks and hickories.
Taxes: $2,634 (estimated)
Contact: Damian Hall, Black Stream, Christie’s International Real Estate, 864-561-7942; christiesrealestate.com
Fairfield, Vt. | $699,000
A 2002 house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms
This architect-designed timber-frame home, with a three-bedroom septic plan, was built for an airplane pilot who used it as a retreat. It sits on 98 acres, 45 minutes from Burlington, Vt. The Canadian border is about 40 minutes away. Lake Champlain is visible from the property, as are (on clear nights) the twinkling lights of Montreal.
Size: 1,424 square feet
Price per square foot: $491
Indoors: The house is warmed visually by custom cherry, maple and mahogany finishes and physically by radiant-heated floors. The centerpiece is a great room with a double-height ceiling and wood-burning fireplace. This level also has a kitchen with a built-in beer tap and cooler, a small library and a bathroom with a shower.
Upstairs, the main bedroom is part of a suite overlooking the great room that includes a bathroom with a soaking tub and a study that could be converted into a bunk room. A ladder provides access to a loft that sleeps an additional two people. The house also has a full basement with a workshop and a wine storage area.
Outdoor space: The owner personally hauled the rose-colored granite used for the path to the entrance and created several trails through the property. The land is divided equally between meadows and forest.
Taxes: $5,719
Contact: Kathy O’Brien, Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty, 802-343-9433; kathyobrien.com
Salt Lake City | $690,000
A midcentury-modern house with three bedrooms and one and a half bathrooms
Built as a spec house in 1959 by Burtch W. Beall Jr., a prominent local architect, this home is about 20 minutes southeast of downtown and half an hour from Park City, Utah.
Size: 2,453 square feet
Price per square foot: $281
Indoors: The entrance is tucked behind a wall of greenery and leads into a spacious double-height hall with a 40-plus-year-old rubber tree growing all the way to the skylight.
The three bedrooms run along the lower level and include a master suite with a bathroom that has iridescent mosaic tile. The living area, dining area and kitchen occupy an open-plan room with a gas fireplace on the loft-like upper level.
Outdoor space: The master bedroom has an outdoor seating area. Sliding doors in the kitchen open to a covered patio between the house and the two-car garage. The 0.29-acre terraced corner lot includes a vegetable garden.
Taxes: $2,545
Contact: Mony Ty, Coldwell Banker, 801-550-7430; coldwellbankerhomes.com
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