ENDURING BEAUTY IN WALLS of STONE

Now back in the family who had been here since 1830, the old farmhouse is again ready for generations to come. Additions dating to 1840 and the 1950s were preserved.

BY REGINA COLE

the old stone house is in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. It already had a nearly 200-year-history in Diann’s family when Joe and Diann Martin purchased it. Built in 1820 on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River, the house had been sold in 1830 to one of Diann’s ancestors. During the 19th and 20th centuries, it was a working dairy farm of a thousand acres and known as Potomac Riverside Farm. In 1840, a side ell was added, the first of a series of additions and alterations. Over the years, family members divided the land; when Diann’s grandparents owned the house, it was surrounded by 365 acres. “In 2003, my uncle owned the adjoining farm as well as one-third of this property,” Diann says. “He wanted to sell both together and…

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Old House Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2024

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