This Old House, one of the most respected home improvement authorities in America, has named Mountain View one of 2011’s “Best Old House Neighborhoods.”
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Neighborhood Classics
Roanoke’s many fine neighborhoods are home to a variety of home styles. Here’s an overview.
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Chocolate Truffles Recipe
Boy was I dreading the predicted snowfall of last December. I was sure to go stir crazy cooped up in the house all weekend.
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Unfound Treasures
A quarter century and $52 million later, Roanoke is still looking eastward for economic salvation, to 1,100-acre, scenic, river-cut, parkway-bordering Explore Park. The vision has changed, but the lack of realization has not. Today, with Larry Vander Maten out of the picture and “The Waltons’” Earl Hamner perhaps stepping in, the future is as rich with possibility and as totally uncertain as ever.
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Coming Home to Calm
Hilda Templeton’s profession, psychiatry, has many manifestations in her re-do of a 1989 condo in Hunting Hills. The 1989 “before” has become a gloriously detailed and welcoming “after.”
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Roanoke Neighborhoods
Roanoke Valley’s valley-and-ridge setting has a bounty of housing types, locations and vistas.
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Newcomers Guide to Roanoke Housing
Where To Live In The Valley The Roanoke Valley’s valley-and-ridge setting is the perfect inspiration and kick-off for its bounty of housing types, locations and vistas.
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A Timeless Home’s Second Life
It was love at first sight. And, soon after, a Maryland couple decided Roanoke was their heart’s desire. It took time to find the perfect house, one waiting for the magic touch of a man with high energy and great ideas. But now, partly finished, the house is on its way… with its own shining star, a knockout kitchen already earning laurels.
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New Life for a Classic Beauty: Rebirth of a Family-Style Masterpiece.
It’s one of the city’s most breathtaking homes. A place Russ Ellis had admired since he was a kid. Then, after selling his InSystems Technologies, he and wife Kelly were ready for their dream home: this gorgeous South Roanoke landmark. Today the house is theirs. Redone. Imprinted with their own personalities. And suited to a dynamic young family.
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