Tamarind: Greek Revival Gem Minutes From UNC & Duke

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This romantic 1903 home was designed as a wedding gift by Ralph Adams Cram, the nation’s foremost Gothic Revival architect (New York’s St. John the Divine). Sheltered by old-growth trees and hedges, with a hidden walled garden for privacy, the property also boasts two cottages, original to the property and shaded by the canopy of two of the largest pecan trees in North Carolina. Both are suited for guests and would be legal as rentals.

The main house spares nothing that old-fashioned craftsmanship had to offer: high ceilings, 8 fireplaces, several built-in bookcases, wainscotting throughout, and beveled sidelights that cast rainbows on the plaster walls of the gracious front hall. Every room has its own personality, from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room and library, to the slanted ceiling of the nursery for cozy bedtime stories, to two upstairs bathrooms each with a hidden cubbyhole for children to play and dream in.

Downstairs, Tamarind’s recently renovated primary suite has a working fireplace and wide French doors overlooking the heated pool and walled garden affording complete privacy. Surrounded by a lush microclimate fostering palm trees, a banana tree, gardenias, creeping fig and climbing roses, this beautiful setting calls to mind old Hollywood or an old village sanctuary in Key West. It’s a world apart from the village life just beyond Tamarind’s private gates.

Hillsborough is a charming historic village on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, lying mid-way between the North Carolina coast and the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is conveniently located just 20 minutes from the amenities of UNC, Duke University, and the thriving Research Triangle Park, home to 300 major companies. Ten minutes farther on is Raleigh-Durham International airport. Hillsborough is prized by many as a restorative oasis from that bustling world, discovered in recent decades by writers, artists, and business leaders from RTP who prefer the small-town scale and values of a more halcyon era.

In its nearly 125-year history, Tamarind has been owned and loved by only three families… making it likely that today’s rare offering is literally a once-in-a- generation opportunity.

For more information, contact Sydney Hill Benfey 919-636-8864, Hodge & Kittrell Sothebys Intl Rlty and Claire Pope 919-530-9415, Hodge & Kittrell Sothebys Intl Rlty