A 1762 Virginia house stood in Sussex County for 184 years, then was dismantled piece by piece

A historic 1762 Virginia farmhouse that spent its first 184 years in Sussex County before being taken apart and moved timber by timber has a prospective buyer at $3.799 million (£2.86 million). According to property records and estate reports from Realtor.com, the five-bedroom home is located at 4509 Carlby Lane in Alexandria, along the Potomac River. The land was once part of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. The property is currently listed as contingent after being marketed by estate agents Andrea Courduvelis and Diane G. Murphy of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. Known as Carlby, the 2,992-square-foot home is a rare example of historic preservation and has remained with the same family for three generations.Moved piece by pieceThe house was originally built in 1762 in Sussex County, Virginia, where it was known as the Mitchell House. It stayed in its original rural location until 1946, when Carl W. Porter, a retired United States Navy captain and former Fairfax County director of public works, bought the property. Wanting to protect the historic structure, Porter led a major relocation project. Workers carefully took the house apart timber by timber and labelled each ...