{"id":283,"date":"2016-03-14T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:01:39","slug":"historic-home-in-lexington-va-offered-at-395k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"George W Adams House at 302 S Jefferson Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/?attachment_id=284\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-284\" src=\"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20151214_122239-e1457968725806-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20151214_122239\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20151214_122239-e1457968725806-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20151214_122239-e1457968725806-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20151214_122239-e1457968725806-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20151214_122239-e1457968725806.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The George W. Adams House, located at 302 South Jefferson Street in historic downtown Lexington, Virginia, was one of my old-house listings a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Adams House started out as a two-story, side-passage, double-pile dwelling of braced-frame construction&nbsp;on a coursed limestone foundation.&nbsp; Adams was a merchant-artisan, specializing in tinsmithing and other metalwork.&nbsp; As their family grew, he and his wife Elizabeth added on to the house (ca. 1860), incorporating a large formal parlor on the first floor and a large master bedroom on the second. A rear ell was added in the late 1800s, with a kitchen and dining room on the 1st floor and 2 more rooms upstairs.&nbsp; The home, which retains most of&nbsp;its original Late-Federal and Greek Revival architectural&nbsp;elements and wonderful heart-of-pine floors,&nbsp;has been sensitively updated with modern mechanical systems, central cooling and heating, and a custom kitchen and baths. Well&nbsp;arranged for entertaining,&nbsp;it&nbsp;is situated&nbsp;on a&nbsp;lushly landscaped corner lot and has been featured twice on tours of Lexington during&nbsp;Historic Garden Week&nbsp;in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Lexington is a charming small town&nbsp;in the Shenandoah Valley, and an easy drive to Washington DC, Charlottesville, Richmond, Charlotte, or Raleigh. Home to two institutions of higher education, Washington &amp; Lee University and&nbsp;the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington is a tourist destination AND a great place to raise a family or retire.&nbsp; Friendly, walkable, and bike-able,&nbsp;it&nbsp;has an attractive downtown with art galleries, antique shops, boutiques, and a lively&nbsp;restaurant scene.&nbsp; The Adams House,&nbsp;chock-full of authentic features,&nbsp;is just a short stroll to&nbsp;everything!<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 2 February 2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The George W. Adams House, located at 302 South Jefferson Street in historic downtown Lexington, Virginia, was one of my old-house listings a few years ago. The Adams House started out as a two-story, side-passage, double-pile dwelling of braced-frame construction&nbsp;on a coursed limestone foundation.&nbsp; Adams was a merchant-artisan, specializing in tinsmithing and other metalwork.&nbsp; As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/?p=283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George W Adams House at 302 S Jefferson Street&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-architecture","category-posts-about-former-listings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}