Amenities and 'Moore'

What: Four bedrooms, 3½ baths in 5,000 square feet on 18.6 acres

Where: Glenmoore, Pa., 40 miles west of Philadelphia

Amenities: 1790s layout preserved. Three floors, nine-foot ceilings, six fireplaces. Three-bedroom tenant house, one-bedroom guest cottage, gazebo, swimming pool. Gravel driveway lined with maple trees and stone walls. Restorable fieldstone barn and paddock.

Asking Price: $1.25 million.

Opening Bid*: $1.15 million.

Agent: Steve DiFrancesco of Hunter, Reed & Co., 610-347-1000

Due Diligence: Steven and Rori Minissale are selling this 1750s stone manor residence, named the "James Moore House" after its original owner and the founder of Glenmoore, once called "Moorestown." Mr. Moore supplied the Continental Army with grain during the Revolution. Prior to the 1980s -- when much of the property's farmland was sold, leaving the current lot -- the estate had been owned only by two families: the Moores, who grew winter wheat, and the Howsons, who were dairy farmers. The property sits on a wooded ridge and abuts the Brandywine River, a trout stream in the spring. Mr. Minissale, vice president of a telecommunications service, bought the property with his wife in 1998 for $840,000. The couple continued a restoration begun by the Green family, which had rebuilt the guest cottage and built the pool, among other things. The Minissales restored the 1890s tenant house, installed a new septic system and finished cosmetic plastering in the main residence, all for about $80,000, Mr. Minissale says. With the Minissales' children almost grown up, the couple is looking to buy a smaller house nearby.

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*The opening bid is Weekend Journal's estimate of a reasonable starting point for negotiations to buy the property, based on past sales, prevailing market conditions and interviews with local real-estate experts.

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