1916
Est.
4
Bedrooms
6
Bathrooms
6,072 sq ft
Living Area
4.15 Acres
Land
$4,250,000
Offered At
200 Hollycrest Drive · Pinehurst, NC · Est. 1916
Neo-Georgian. Walter Hines Page. 110 years of unbroken stewardship.
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Neo-Georgian. Four columns. Seven fireplaces. 4.15 acres. Built in 1916 by the men who built Pinehurst. Restored to the original drawings in 2000. One hundred and ten years of unbroken stewardship.
Four columns. Full entablature. Drawn to exact Georgian proportion and built that way. Three months were spent sourcing period-accurate brick for the portico restoration. The proportions are correct because the drawings survived.
Wrought iron. Original hardware. The brick path beyond it was laid before a single wall was framed. This is where arrival begins — before the door, before the columns, before the house announces itself.
The leaded glass sidelights and fanlight are original. The hardware was specified in 1916. It has not been replaced. That is not maintenance. That is devotion.
One detail makes everything clear: the inscription in the threshold — GARRAN HILL · 1916. He named it before it existed. The house has been answering to that name ever since.
In 1916, those were saplings. Now they are a forest.
Original oak floors. The staircase rises at the far end — visible the instant the door opens. No wall has moved. The proportions were drawn in 1916 and they have not been touched.
You feel it before you understand it.
The Delft tile surround — blue and white, hand-painted — is original. The toile was sourced to match it. The seven chairs, the valances, the plates on the walls: everything in this room was chosen to respond to something else already there.
That is not decorating. That is a century of conviction.
The frontispiece above the fireplace is original — carved in 1916, still in place. The shell cabinets have not moved. The room seats twelve without crowding. It holds the silence after dinner without trying.
Dead center of the first floor — positioned that way in the 2000 plans. Built-in shelving on three walls, floor to ceiling. Rolling ladder. French doors to the rear grounds. When you stand in it, you cannot find the seam.
Fifteen sheets of drawings. Every profile matched. Every cornice detail copied from what was already there. The study paneling: "same panel details as existing dining room panels." That is not a contractor note. That is a preservation philosophy written into a construction document. The result does not feel added. It feels inevitable.
The hardware was specified in 1916. It has not been replaced.
Walter Hines Page bought 1,000 acres outside Pinehurst in February 1913 and named it Garran Hill. Six weeks later, Woodrow Wilson made him Ambassador to the Court of St. James. He sailed for London in May 1913.
From London, he wrote about the farm constantly. "The farm — the farm — the farm." He served through the First World War. He returned in December 1918, carried off the train at Aberdeen by his son. His last words: "Well, Frank, I did get here after all, didn't I?"
He died that evening. He never spent a night at Garran Hill.
"The friend of Britain in her sorest need."Westminster Abbey · Memorial to Walter Hines Page · 1918
Every panel, every cabinet, the fireplace surround, the tub surround — drawn from scratch in 2000 to match a house built 84 years earlier. You cannot tell the difference. That was the point.
The dogwood blooms every April. The window has not moved.
4.15 acres enclosed within mature hardwoods. 28-zone irrigation from a 130-foot private well. All utilities underground. The rose garden was built from bare ground over twenty years. There is nothing like it anywhere in Pinehurst.
The brick surround is original. The wrought iron arch gate is original. The pool terrace sits entirely behind the rose wall. You cannot see it from the road. You cannot hear the road from it.
He is buried at the rear of the property, under a slate cover with a brass marker. A four-foot blue fox statue once marked the grave. It was lost after her death in 1980.
The marker is still there.
Someone still puts flowers there.
Four families. One hundred and ten years. The question is whether you are the fifth.
Est. 1916 · Pinehurst, North Carolina · $4,250,000
Garran Hill is ready.
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