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Edge Valley Preservation Announces First Custom Home Start at Bundoran Farm
Anne Hooff, 7/28/2008
Email: annehooff@aol.com
Website: http://bundoranfarm.com
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Edge Valley Preservation, LLC, the developer of Bundoran Farm located in Albemarle County, Virginia announced the construction start of the project’s first custom home this week. Designed by renowned architect and author, Russell Versaci, the home’s architecture and material specifications were chosen from his collection of classic made-to-order homes, the Simple Farmhouse Portfolio, which are based on regional traditions of early America. Versaci is a strong advocate of “design within reach” and the need to make well-designed, traditional homes with updated modern materials and technology ---inspired by the past and designed for the present. Each of the houses and outbuildings in the Versaci Portfolio are offered and delivered to the site through their partner, Connor Homes, of Middlebury, Vermont. The Maple Ridge Group, a local custom home builder, will assemble and finish-out Bundoran Farm’s first home according to the homeowners’ personal specifications.
“We are delighted that our first custom home has been designed by Russell Versaci,” notes Joe Barnes, Bundoran Farm Development Director. “Our team has great respect for his firm’s design and building principles and feel his classic approach is a perfect fit for Bundoran Farm homeowners.”
“It’s fitting that the homeowners, Bill and Mary Tilman, chose the Currier Farmhouse from our portfolio as the first house to be built at Bundoran Farm,” comments Mr. Versaci. “By integrating old rural architectural traditions with new concepts of preservation and sustainability, Bundoran Farm offers a unique lifestyle for the 21st century.”
About Bundoran Farm
Located just 15 minutes from Charlottesville and the renowned University of Virginia, the 2,300 acres of Bundoran Farm are nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Two ponds provide a place for quiet reflection or fishing, and farm buildings and cottages dot the landscape, framing views that typify the slower pace and natural beauty of the Albemarle County lifestyle. This land remains intact today because of a legacy of family stewardship, a tradition of care that will continue for generations to come. Bundoran Farm is not just a place of rare visual beauty. It is a thriving landscape of cattle and orchards - a place where deer, fish and birds find
quiet refuge. A place where a network of over fifteen miles of walking and riding trails winds amongst mature Piedmont forest species. And where, most importantly, all of this will remain intact for future generations. In fact, 90 percent of Bundoran Farm will remain untouched by residential development thanks to the careful process of Preservation Development.
About Preservation Development
Bundoran Farm is the location of a new kind of rural community. At the heart of this community is a new economic, environmental and social way of life called Preservation Development. This innovative concept of land preservation, combined with extremely limited residential development, has been practiced and refined over thirty years. In the case of Bundoran Farm, these principles will result in a low-density community of approximately one hundred homesites, with the great majority of the farm’s acreage put under a proven system of easements and deed restrictions to ensure the beauty, character and vitality of this land in perpetuity. With the purchase of their individual homesites, owners enjoy the expansive acreage and beauty of the entire working farm and forest. They can experience the benefits of living on a large farm without the investment of time and management such a parcel would typically require.
About Russell Versaci Architecture
Deemed a master of the House by Southern Accents magazine, Russell Versaci has spent 30 years studying the details of old houses to learn how to re-create old house character and charm in new homes. Russell is the author of Creating a New Old House (Taunton Press/American Institute of Architects 2003), Editor at Large of New Old House magazine and founder of Russell Versaci Architecture in Middleburg, Virginia. His newest book, Roots of Home: America's Journey to a New Old House, will be released in October 2008.
Please refer all press inquiries to Anne Hooff, Payne, Ross & Associates at
434-977-7607 or 434-244-8481
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