Patricia Kluge downsizing, selling Albemarle County estate
Published: November 3, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Philanthropist and vintner Patricia Kluge has put her 24,000-square-foot Albemarle County house and 300 acres on the market.
The 61-year-old Kluge says she’s selling her Albemarle House estate because she and her husband, William Moses, want to downsize and travel more. She says they’re planning to build a new home on 900 acres nearby.
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty in Washington, D.C., is marketing the estate.
The property includes a library, gallery, pool, pool house, greenhouse, extensive gardens, three stocked ponds, a helicopter pad, stables and staff quarters.
Kluge says she and Moses will continue operating a vineyard and winery and hope to expand the business. The vineyard’s output this year is estimated at about 35,000 cases.
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Oh yeah…the helicopter pad. The most important part of the Doug Wilder/Kluge affair of years past when he’d hop on a state police helicopter and fly to C-ville to boink the billionaire.
going from 300 to 900 acres does not exactly sound like “downsizing” to me. Oh, then again, she may be building a 10,000 square foot or so home…....
When’s the open house?
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