2. Selma Mansion
Where: Virginia
1700 is the year.
Price: As of 2020, the sale price was $1.8 million.
The Selma Mansion has had multiple owners throughout the course of its centuries-long existence, and numerous families have had the chance to dwell inside its walls. After the original home burned down in 1896, Elijah B. White, the owner at the time, rebuilt it in 1906 using colonial architecture. During this same period, the mansion had one of the first intercom systems in the United States.
WashingtonLife.com/Selma Mansion
The property changed hands a few times before a Dutch businessman abandoned it in the early 2000s, which is when the property collapsed. While nature overtook the exteriors, vandalism struck the interiors. The home was placed on the state’s most endangered historical sites list in 2009, and it stayed there for the following seven years. In the end, property was bought by businesswoman Sharon Virts in 2016, and restoration work is under underway.
zi ang