The Crossroads

The picture looks a bit like a redneck dark fantasy... but chalk that up to the photographer. Here we have a main house that looks a bit like a saloon. It's a mess, porch slowly rotting, old furniture piled all over it left to the weather. Directly across the minor road (it's actually a T intersection, not an X) is an old general store, from the beginnning of the 20th century, apparently mostly intact.

Obvious long term neglect of the whole property is somewhat offset by the incredible staying power of theold wood that used to routinely be used for making buildings. There are two more closed-up house-like building across the major axis road, but it's hard to tell how far gone they are. Definitely sagging here and there, but looks like the paint may have protected them surprisingly well.

There is also a decent size field with some sort of barn structure near the back, a handful of old vehicles rotting in the field, and strangely, an old caboose being swallowed by weeds.

There is a space between the main house and the road that I envision as a great main stage area, there's already some sort of raised platform. The road literally goes through the property, but it works because it seems like a tiny town. This was at one time a fairly prosperous little place it appears. The bones of the big house just resonated with energy of history, if you can imagine what I mean. The place has incredible potential. It would also be enough work to keep even a non-lazy farmhand busy for quite a while. It would probably take 6 mo to a year of constant work to get to festival stage, probably multiple years to get to classy B & B level. Money completely undetermined, though I will conjecture that a great deal of the work would be peeling away old layers and cleaning it up, rather than major new building.

Location is good, north from Richmond about 35 minutes, about an hour south of DC (with nor traffic). It is on a scenic byway off of old Jeff Davis Highway (a sign up the road said "The Crossroads of the Civil War", whoa). I won't post the rest of the location details online, but I am working on determining the actual property size and who owns it. Fascinating!