Status: Closed
MLS#: 2107758
Type: Residential - Single Family
Style: Bungalow, Cottage, 1 Story
Subdivision: None
County: Richmond City
Ownership: Individuals
Antebellum cottages the city are rare enough, but knowing who built them is rarer still. To find one built by a skilled craftsman for himself is an exceptional find. Built in 1835, the John Morris Cottage is perched high above one of Richmond's earliest streets and overlooks picturesque St. John s Church, where Patrick Henry stoked the American Revolution with his fiery rhetoric. Remarkably, much of the cottage s original fabric remains: heart pine floors, mantels, mouldings, and wavy glass windows through which residents observed the devastation of the Civil War. Despite the cottage's diminutive proportions , its prominent dormers, lofty front porch and height above street level give the house a striking presence. And for all its quaintness, the cottage has a great floor plan. The first floor has a study (or bedroom), full bath, kitchen, mud room, living and dining rooms. Both kitchen and mud room open onto a rear porch and enchanting garden with brick terrace. Upstairs is a second full bath, bedroom and dressing room, each with fireplace. The property is being sold "As Is" and ready for you to write its next chapter. Photos coming.