CityView Magazine

CityViewNC.com | 15 BY COURTNEY PHILLIPS "When we moved out here, there were only several houses," said Martha Jessup of the home she and her husband, Dr. P.W. Jessup, share in the Rayconda neighborhood of West Fayetteville. With a strong desire to escape to a more secluded area, Martha and P.W., a Fayetteville dentist, chose to build a sprawling one-story ranch-style home from a Better Homes and Gardens blueprint on Pinewood Terrace 42 years ago. "Our friends would make fun! ey'd say, 'We'll come, but we'll have to pack a lunch,'" laughed Martha, of their former proximity to civilization. "I never thought I'd live to see the day that I'd have a Wal-Mart right down the road." Blanketed by a characteristically Carolinian pine straw to grass ratio, the neighborhood features an array of ranch-style homes in distinguishing ex- teriors from Tudor to classic brick and a lake and dam dotted with weather- worn, picturesque docks. Despite an onslaught of new home construction and commercial development along Raeford Road, the quiet enclave has aged gracefully… the Jessup home being no exception. Shaded by pine, shrouded by crepe myrtle and gated by azalea, the un- assuming exterior of the home features a welcoming combination of rustic charcoal-colored board and batten vertical siding and brick, with black shut- ters and white trim. e interior beckons from a cozy front porch, accented by a glossy white Chinese Chippendale baluster railing. Traditional and Timeless Ranch-style living in Rayconda Shaded by pine, shrouded by crepe myrtle and gated by azalea, the unassuming exterior of the home features a welcoming combination of rustic charcoal- colored board and batten vertical siding and brick, with black shutters and white trim. Updated wooden double front doors open into a spacious foyer featur- ing a classic, understated floral wallpaper that sets the tone of chromatics throughout the home. Hues of rich red, crisp green, glossy white and metal- lics are liberally interspersed to create a clean, but welcoming interior. Ac- cording to Martha, the vibrant color palette is what visitors tend to notice most frequently in their home. In the course of the past four decades, the home has been updated four separate times in nods to functionality, modernity and lifestyle, but clas- sic amenities such as plantation shutters, wainscoting, built-in shelving and interior dentil molding remained a constant through updates, the raising of their two children and, now, visits from their five grandchildren.

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