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Authentic New England Saltbox Home In Piedmont Area of North Carolina GREAT LODGING FOR CORPORATE BUSINESS---RELOCATION---VACATIONING---SHOPPING NC & VA COLLEGES---DUKE HOSPITAL Location: Roxboro, North Carolina, USA (Close Proximity to Raleigh, NC(1hour); Durham, NC(30 minutes); Chapel Hill, NC(45 minutes); Greensboro, NC(1.5 hours); Winston-Salem, NC(1.75 hours); Charlotte, NC(2.75 hours); South Boston, VA(30 minutes); Danville, VA(45 minutes); Richmond, VA(2.75 hours) Accommodations:
New England Saltbox Home- 4 bedrooms-3 baths—(sleeps 8) |
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ON-SITE: Big Yard For Playing. Rental
Pricing Information (all rates subject to change) FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ENJOY MORE BACKGROUND & HISTORY: How An Authentic
New England Saltbox Home Came To Be Built In Rural, Small Town,
Tobacco-Row, North Carolina: CONSTRUCTION Of THE MARTIN HOUSE: The Martin House, better known to all the parents, nieces, nephews, friends, & relatives as “Ann & Al’s house” was constructed in 2 phases. The original portion was built in 1953 & the portion which completes the house’s “L shape” & the laundry room & the pantry were added on in 1975, a few years prior to Ann & Al’s retirement from Al’s teaching at Columbia University. I was 2 years old at the time when the original portion of the house was built. From the outside of the house, its size is deceiving. It’s really big---once you enter & walk around, it just seems to keep “on going & going & going”. The newer section also has a spacious finished off attic, one of Aunt Ann’s high priority requirements, if you need to safely store anything. The original portion of the house is built on a concrete “slab”, so there are no “steps up” to enter the house from the backdoor. The 1975 addition is level with the 1st floor of the older section, so you can “cover” almost the entire house without ever taking a “step up”. Also, if it’s just one or two guest lodgers that do not need or want a large house, it’s easy to close off & not use many rooms plus the upstairs. How We Happened To Acquire The House: When Ann & Al passed away, they left the “Saltbox” to the 5 nieces & nephews. I lived an hour away, but I was the closest of any of us. Everyone else lived in another state or 2 away. So while the 5 of us were figuring out what to do w/ the house, I mowed the yard, etc. Though we could not afford it, every time I mowed that grass, I could just hear in my mind Aunt Ann saying “you keep this house in the family…don’t sell it…you buy it…don’t worry, everything will work out just fine”. And I kept thinking of all of those Monopoly games with Al, all of those school projects Ann helped us with, Ann’s chocolate cake, her coffee she let us sip, the lingering conversations around their dining room table, Ann’s hand-made Christmas decorations depicting winter scenes from their Amherst, Massachusetts’ days, on & on the memories would flow as I mowed. Well, it turned out that the other nieces & nephews were glad for us to buy it, they wanted to keep it in the family too. So, we did in 1999 & rented it on an unfurnished annual lease basis until March, 2009, when we took a step of faith & furnished it to rent/share, hopefully, to good folks like you. CONTACT INFO:
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