For almost 200 years, occupancy of these stately homes - shaded by live oak trees, with sweeping views of the Chesapeake Bay - has been limited to an august circle of Army brass and their families.
You needed at least a couple of stars on your Army uniform and a prestigious assignment to Fort Monroe to live on what's known as Generals' Row.
Not anymore. With the Army about to pull up stakes and move to Fort Eustis in Newport News, scores of homes previously occupied by soldiers and their families are now available to the public.
"We've got great product available, and we're open for business," Jerry Moore, real estate director for the Fort Monroe Authority, said Thursday after a board meeting.
The authority, which will manage the 570-acre property when the Army departs in September, has been leasing more than 100 of the fort's 272 residential units to military members and civilian defense workers. The bulk of them are in crumbling buildings from the 1950s.
As of Aug. 1, the coveted residences inside the stone fort, on Generals' Row and in a Victorian-era village are available for lease to the general public. Most of them are brick, some date to the 1830s, and one was occupied by Robert E. Lee as a young Army officer.
Rents will range from $1,350 to $4,500 a month, plus utilities.
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