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

The former homestead of a regional pair who modeled their residence following the Williamsburg property of just one of the country’s Founding Fathers may perhaps have observed its future caretaker.

Liberty Farm, a 13-acre estate around Chesterfield County Airport, was put under contract final week after hitting the market in late May with a $1.4 million cost tag.

James Nay with River Metropolis Elite Properties shown the household for Doug and Deborah Hackman, who crafted the property in 2001 and modeled it just after the George Wythe Home in Colonial Williamsburg.

The Hackmans moved to Charles Town County in the vicinity of Shirley Plantation six several years in the past but have held onto Liberty Farm as a weekend retreat. The retired pair as soon as led many wellbeing care companies that were being dependent at the home. Doug also once owned a paper recycling and facts destruction business enterprise.

The pair built headlines a ten years in the past as section of a team that proposed a h2o sports park on land the Hackmans have farther south along Newbys Bridge Road. The task was rejected by the county in 2013.

Liberty Farm, at 5400 Newbys Bridge Road, was a labor of love for the Hackmans, who Nay reported couldn’t carry themselves to element with it regardless of possessing moved to be nearer to the river.

Debbie Hackman, who owned the 4 providers and sold them in the mid-2000s, stated 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 spouse and I are just fans of independence and the forefathers and what they did for our region,” Hackman claimed. “All of our lives, we’ve been in love with Colonial Williamsburg, and when we developed this house, we modeled it just after the George Wythe House. I assume if any one were being to go there, they would see it is practically precisely like the residence.”

Hackman explained the home’s inside specifics, paint colors, materials and home windows are all genuine to Colonial Williamsburg, and the third flooring incorporates carpeting that resembles the ballroom in the Governor’s Palace.

The home’s heart pine floors were milled from virgin aged-development logs that ended up pulled from the Belize River, and Brickman claimed they experienced their bricklayer emulate the brick-and-mortar approaches of the colonial period of time.

“We manufactured him do it sloppy, because in Williamsburg you will find the mortar is (protruding) in between the bricks,” she reported. “There’s a actual cannonball (by) the chimney, just like it is there. It is a whole lot of specifics in the household that you will not uncover anywhere else apart from for in Colonial Williamsburg.”

The couple served as their individual basic contractor on the construct, subcontracting out different components of the challenge. Chesterfield County assessed the residence this yr at $777,300 and the overall house at $889,500.

With 12-foot ceilings and nine fireplaces, the 5,800-square-foot property has 4 bedrooms and 4½ bathrooms, like en suite bathrooms with a washer and dryer in each. The prime-floor ballroom consists of a theater projector and pool table.

A 2-acre pond highlights the property, which consists of a quadplex with rental units building $60,000 yearly. The 4 units were being formerly utilized as workplaces for Hackman’s wellness treatment businesses, including Flexibility Residence Health, which she bought in 2004. Hackman mentioned the agency was a fifty percent-billion-greenback firm at the time.

The property also includes a 950-square-foot setting up that can be used as a household business, a pasture area with round pen and vinyl break up rail fencing, and a barn with 11 horse stalls, tack home, hay room, carriage space and clean room.

Considering that listing the property May possibly 28, Nay mentioned it is obtained a large array of desire, from investors eyeing it as an situations venue, to potential buyers in search of an equestrian estate or drawn by the home’s historical nods. Nay stated the deal acquired for the listing arrived from purchasers who are dependent regionally.

“We experienced a ton of interest in this residence. We experienced effectively about 20 showings in a short period of time,” Nay reported Friday. “The people that we just went underneath agreement with submitted their give, and we just grew to become ratified in the previous 24 hrs.”

As for the Hackmans, their new riverside residence around Higher Shirley is just downriver from a further not too long ago detailed house with some background to it: Graham Aston’s Tudor-design and style Barnstone property, which was built all around an 1800s-period barn. The 6,000-sq.-foot dwelling on 13 acres was listed in late May perhaps at $2.3 million.