Rather than purchase Halsey Minor’s estate…

As reported on This Just In, Landmark Hotel owner Halsey Minor’s Albemarle County estate, 2800 Fox Ridge Farm, was listed in a foreclosure sale ad in Sunday’s Daily Progress. The estate’s value is assessed at $3.9 million. More details here.

On a tangentially related note, here is a short list of culturally significant items currently approaching public auction:

• Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter, used to compose just about everything the author has written to date.

• The musical arsenal of Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor’s longtime musical entity.

• Several of Audrey Hepburn’s gowns, via Sotheby’s (which has its own relationship with Minor).

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