The leaders of Farmington Country Club and the surrounding subdivision may be breathing a little easier these days. After a court battle against a pair of renegade residents who challenged the club's special events monopoly by hosting weddings at their neo-Georgian mansion, the neighbors can bask in the knowledge that the problematic property, Gallison Hall, has been sold to some yet unnamed buyers who supposedly want to focus on renovation rather than recreation. "They're excited and ambitious about the project," the buyers' broker Murdoch Matheson told The Daily Progress.
"They are not going to have weddings." Weddings at Gallison Hall had become such a controversy that the club sued the outgoing owners, Jason and Susan Williamson. The lawsuit, jointly filed in July by the club and the subdivision's homeowner association, sought an injunction against further events and demanded that the Williamsons hand over their event revenues.
Gallison Hall was constructed in 1931 in the Farmington subdivision outside Charlottesville as a home for University of Virginia professor and Cuban expatriate Julio Galbán and his Chattanooga, Tennessee-born wife, Evelyn. That could have added up, as Gallison Hall's starting venue fee for a 200-person wedding, according to a recent posting on theknot.com , was $12,000.
"Gallison Hall is one of the most beautiful venues in the state of Virginia," says one online testimonial. "Any couple lucky enough to get married at this property is in for the a.
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