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HISTORY
 
T he first documentations, brings us to the year 1834, when, according to the cadastral registers of the epoch, Crescentini Prete Domenico was Christmas and Nephews, possesses to Field of the Villa, a house of really use, an agricultural house with court, a portico and other agricultural houses. The Crescentinis anciently it seems that they were a family of carbonari, that slowly begin to accumulate money and to purchase terrestrial, up to become, with the XIX century, among the wealthiest owners of Fontecorniale (to few Km from Montefelcino). Before 1850, near the other bodies of factory, another main building is built, placed side by side from a chapel, connected to a near agricultural house by an arc.

I t deals with the main building, still existing, that comes to the threshing floor to almost close to court with the façade. In the nucleus of buildings an oil mill is also installed. In the following years, various other constructions come to already place side by side the existing, and among these still a new main residence, a big house, according to the tendency of the epoch. . The main house that places side by side the chapel in origin was endowed with two floors, on which, in central position, another plan raised same as of turret dovecot. Following the bombardments, during the second world conflict, a violent fire almost distroyed the building; in fact in 1946 it was declared "uninhabitable for war events."

I n the fire it must be destroyed you furnish , the furnitur and other was found in the house, that was subsequently restored, skipping however the reconstruction of the central turret. Also the insides were simplified and modernized, avoiding to reconstruct the ancient painted ceilings as that, notable that was present in the central saloon. After the numerous evacuees people that had found refuge, the building was inhabited only for few years, up to 1955, therefore definitely abandoned. Of interest the building preserves, on the angles of the back of the main facade, two turrets projecting, call "torricini", preceded to the defense from the frequent assaults of the brigands. Loopholes give, in all safety,it could be held under control the back sides of the house. Besides up to the first postwar period, the chapel was still connected to the near agricultural house, now disappearance, from an arcade in masonry, that anciently entertained perhaps a great front door, also it with defensive functions.