Just minutes from our Nation’s Capital in Bethesda, Maryland, sits a gorgeous half-acre waterfront retreat that evokes a fairy tale castle. The Coldwell Banker Residential… [Read More]The post Daily Dream Home: A Castle Outside of Washington, DC appeared first on Pursuitist.

Just minutes from our Nation’s Capital in Bethesda, Maryland, sits a gorgeous half-acre waterfront retreat that evokes a fairy tale castle. The Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage home is dubbed Baltzley Castle. The fully renovated late 19th-century stone mansion listed on the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties is listed for $4,449,000. The castle-like stone manse was built by twin brothers Edward and Edwin Baltzley, who used the funds from Edwin?s invention of a splatterless eggbeater to purchase acres of land along MacArthur Boulevard with the vision of developing a ?Rhineland on the Potomac.? First Edward then Edwin lived in the estate, designed as a showplace for their proposed development, before financial problems forced one then the other to leave.After that, the home served as an illegal speakeasy during Prohibition. Though minor remodeling had been done over the years, a true restoration wasn?t undertaken until the present owners purchased the property in 2010 and launched an extensive restoration.The project took 15 months. From a new red slate-tile roof to a glass-enclosed circular porch with marble flooring, the addition of a new table space gourmet kitchen ...