60 Highspire Rd, Downingtown, PA 19335

WOW THE PRICE IS RIGHT!! Come see this original single Owner Eco-friendly home stewarded by a local Quaker family for 40+years, designed and built by internationally renowned architect Bart Kaltenbach. Super-efficient, passive solar envelope design, beautiful natural light, open floor plan, terra-cotta tile floors and plaster walls. Truly a century house built by local artisan craftspeople to become your inter-generational asset. Historic, hand hewn, American chestnut barn timbers, salvaged from the iconic McCurdys barn, showcased in the living room and master bedroom. All the materials are natural and non-toxic, this is an exquisitely private and peaceful healthy home. A product of Chester County, and a close-knit Quaker community, built by local people with a long view on how to build; it has a heart and soul you will not easily find anywhere else! The home is situated on 3.25 acres backing onto 60+ acres of protected private land and it is within walking distance of a historic rail trail along the East Brandywine and Marsh Creek State Park. It is oriented to maximize southern exposure and to be heated passively by the sun and with its engineered envelope convection heating as the warmth of the sun heats the attached greenhouse. The air rises into the attic and drops back down a double north wall to the basement where there is a full basement and crawl space with a tube coming into the crawl space from deep underground to naturally cool the house in the summer. There are ce