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“Castleton Farms,* one of Rappahannock County's most impressive and historic show places, has been sold by Mrs. Mary Hill Ingersoll to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott of Washington, D. C. The beautiful 410-acre estate includes a stately pre-Civil War brick mansion known as “Castleton House* which sets high on a knoll and dominates the spacious lawn, the stocked pond and the modern swimming pool. The bricks for the original house were made in a kiln on the farm and the house was completed by James Browning in 1863. .
Mrs. Ingersoll directed remodeling of the house when it was purchased fourteen years ago. There are six bedrooms, four and a half baths, a charming living room with two woodburning fir.eplaces, dressing rooms and a center hall entrance with period stai» way. Built on the “English basement* plan, the home has a modern kitchen and dining room on the ground floor. “Castleton House* has been the locale of frequent Rappahannock Hunt receptions and other social gatherings. Mrs. Ingersoll, who will move to new quarters near Boston, Virginia, will continue active in the Hunt. The sale was negotiated by Edward A. Harris & Associates of Huntly, and marked the ninth farm sale of this brokerage house within a year.
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