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Article: standing the test of time.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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By Krys Stefansky
The Virginian-Pilot
NORFOLK
Move into the house where President William Howard Taft once came to dinner.
Bring $ 1.65 million with you. That's the asking price of this mansion in Norfolk's historic Ghent .
While it's on the market and potential buyers are counting its seven bedrooms, 41/2 bathrooms and 7,645 square feet, they might also like to imagine the day when the city was in a tizzy over the portly president's visit. Lovingly preserved over the years, the home still looks much like it did on that evening in 1909 when Taft stopped in to sup .
Seventeen years earlier, Fergus Reid, a successful ...