13-acre ‘Liberty Farm’ estate with Colonial Williamsburg-inspired house put under contract

A 2-acre pond highlights the 13-acre Liberty Farm estate, which contains a home modeled soon after a house in Colonial Williamsburg. (Shots courtesy of CVRMLS)

The previous homestead of a local couple who modeled their home after the Williamsburg home of just one of the country’s Founding Fathers may perhaps have uncovered its next caretaker.

Liberty Farm, a 13-acre estate close to Chesterfield County Airport, was set below deal previous 7 days immediately after hitting the market place in late May with a $1.4 million price tag.

James Nay with River Metropolis Elite Houses stated the property for Doug and Deborah Hackman, who designed the dwelling in 2001 and modeled it soon after the George Wythe Dwelling in Colonial Williamsburg.

Doug and Deborah Hackman modeled their home right after the George Wythe Household.

The Hackmans moved to Charles City County in the vicinity of Shirley Plantation six yrs in the past but have held on to Liberty Farm as a weekend retreat. The retired couple once led quite a few overall health care companies that had been primarily based at the house. Doug also after owned a paper recycling and data destruction enterprise.

The couple made headlines a 10 years in the past as portion of a team that proposed a drinking water sports park on land the Hackmans possess farther south alongside Newbys Bridge Street. The challenge was rejected by the county in 2013.

Liberty Farm, at 5400 Newbys Bridge Street, was a labor of love for the Hackmans, who Nay reported couldn’t carry by themselves to element with it in spite of having moved to be closer to the river.

The dwelling was designed in 2001.

Debbie Hackman, who owned the 4 providers and sold them in the mid-2000s, mentioned Liberty Farm grew out of her and Doug’s appreciate for Colonial Williamsburg, the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence, copies of which she exhibited in her companies’ places of work.

“My partner and I are just fans of independence and the forefathers and what they did for our country,” Hackman claimed. “All of our lives, we have been in enjoy with Colonial Williamsburg, and when we designed this property, we modeled it just after the George Wythe Dwelling. I imagine if any individual were being to go there, they would see it is basically accurately like the house.”

Hackman claimed the home’s inside aspects, paint hues, fabrics and home windows are all authentic to Colonial Williamsburg, and the third flooring features carpeting that resembles the ballroom in the Governor’s Palace.

The house’s coronary heart pine flooring was milled from aged-development logs pulled from the Belize River.

The home’s coronary heart pine floors ended up milled from virgin previous-growth logs that were pulled from the Belize River, and Brickman claimed they experienced their bricklayer emulate the brick-and-mortar strategies of the colonial interval.

“We designed him do it sloppy, due to the fact in Williamsburg you’ll locate the mortar is (protruding) between the bricks,” she explained. “There’s a true cannonball (by) the chimney, just like it is there. It’s a lot of details in the household that you won’t find any where else besides for in Colonial Williamsburg.”

The pair served as their possess normal contractor on the construct, subcontracting out various components of the task. Chesterfield County assessed the home this 12 months at $777,300 and the total property at $889,500.

The kitchen area options a fireplace with chimney-facet cannonball.

With 12-foot ceilings and nine fireplaces, the 5,800-sq.-foot property has 4 bedrooms and 4½ loos, including en suite bogs with a washer and dryer in each. The leading-flooring ballroom involves a theater projector and pool table.

A 2-acre pond highlights the house, which incorporates a quadplex with rental models generating $60,000 each year. The 4 units were being formerly utilised as offices for Hackman’s health care companies, together with Freedom House Wellness, which she sold in 2004. Hackman stated the company was a 50 {73375d9cc0eb62eadf703eace8c5332f876cb0fdecf5a1aaee3be06b81bdcf82}-billion-dollar enterprise at the time.

The house also contains a 950-sq.-foot constructing that can be utilised as a household place of work, a pasture location with round pen and vinyl break up rail fencing, and a barn with 11 horse stalls, tack room, hay room, carriage home and wash place.

The major flooring room with theater and pool desk capabilities carpeting that resembles the Governor’s Palace ballroom.

Because listing the property May possibly 28, Nay said it is gained a broad variety of interest, from investors eyeing it as an gatherings venue, to consumers looking for an equestrian estate or drawn by the home’s historical nods. Nay reported the deal acquired for the listing came from buyers who are centered domestically.

“We had a ton of curiosity in this residence. We experienced well more than 20 showings in a brief period of time,” Nay stated Friday. “The people that we just went below contract with submitted their offer you, and we just became ratified in the final 24 hrs.”

As for the Hackmans, their new riverside residence close to Upper Shirley is just downriver from a further a short while ago shown home with some heritage to it: Graham Aston’s Tudor-type Barnstone house, which was crafted all-around an 1800s-period barn. The 6,000-sq.-foot household on 13 acres was mentioned in late May perhaps at $2.3 million.