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Shack Mountain gets its name from the Shackelford family, which first owned and settled the property in the early 18th century. Architect Fiske Kimball actually wanted to name his new abode "Tusculum" but reconsidered and decided to give the historical nod the original land owners.

It isn't a house for everyone and today's residential expectations may be unsatisfied by a house that is bit more museum then mansion. Still its highly unique and quite satisfying as a retreat. Kimball evidently only lived there in June and around Christmas.

Photos from 1990 when it was nominated as a National Historic Landmark
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I don't care for the orphaned stove in the kitchen - always nice to have some place next to the stove to set hot stuff down on. The bedrooms look small but that's probably typical for the house's era. No pictures of bathrooms makes me suspect that they are small/outdated.

If I were the homeowners/agents/stagers I would give serious consideration to removing half the side tables in that living room and do something about that bed/door situation in the 4th photo from the bottom.

Strange that they decluttered the kitchen (to an extreme!) and left all that personal art/knick knacks in the other public rooms. The roosters gotta go.

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