Address: 227 Greenspring Valley Road, Owings Mills
List price: $2,988,000
Year built: 1914
Real estate agent: Karen Hubble Bisbee of Hubble Bisbee Christie’s International Real Estate
Last sold price/date: For $2,575,000 on July 19, 2010
Property size: 10,080-square-foot home has six bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, an attached two-car garage, plus a heated outdoor swimming pool and a pool house on 4.74 acres.
Unique features: While much about this 1914 country estate is lovely, the undoubted “wow” factor is the family room, housed in what formerly was an original log cabin. The 24-by-20-foot room features log walls, a vaulted log ceiling, vintage pine flooring, doors with antique-style strap work hinges — and a massive, show-stopping fireplace with a swing-arm for hanging kettles over the fire, and extra-deep terra cotta hearth.
Did we mention that it’s just one of the seven fireplaces in this home?
While the family room is dark and cozy, befitting its log cabin origins and ideal for a home theater, the rest of the house glows with light, beginning with the solarium. This room has several skylights and an entire wall of windows that opens onto views of landscaped patios, the pool, a glassed-in pool house, and farm fields in the distance.
The kitchen is an oasis of white cabinets, many with glassed-in fronts, white granite countertops, a central island and stainless-steel appliances. In the master bath suite, the soaking tub takes up an entire wall. It is enclosed in a nook that includes three walls of windows overlooking a forested area.
Other luxury touches include hardwood floors throughout the home, a library with built-in floor-to-ceiling bookcases, Palladian windows, chair railings decorative ceiling moldings and a wet/dry bar.
The outdoor stone patio is large enough to host a party, while terraced stone retaining walls lead down to the heated pool.
