Moorings Realty Sales Company Broker Marsha Sherry says the spacious, light-filled house at 105 Springline Drive was designed as a seasonal vacation home for the owners.
“Since it was a seasonal home, they wanted it to feel like Florida,” she says. “It has a really large screened-in lanai for indoor-outdoor living and is designed to maximize these great water views. The McGraths really put a lot of thought into this house and it turned out beautifully.”
The McGraths’ mental picture of an open, airy, sunny home with a tropic feel was made a reality by architect Armin Wessel, who had an office in Jupiter in 1990 when the home was built.
Wessel has a fairly broad palette, designing Modern, Mediterranean and Georgian homes in Florida, along with churches and mountain-lodge-type houses in North Carolina.
“He designed several homes in The Moorings,” Sherry says. “He is known for making the most of water views and opening the house up to outdoors with lots of large windows.”
The 3-bedroom, 4.5-bath, 4,475-square foot home on Springline sits squarely with its back to a deep-water cove, but many of the interior and exterior walls are slanted at a 45-degree angle to capture the views up the cove toward the Indian River Lagoon.
Light floods in through a two-story window wall in the back that illuminates the living room, foyer and second-floor family room, and through many other large windows throughout, including floor-to-ceiling windows in a number of rooms.
The contemporary-style home is offered for $1,450,000 by The Moorings Realty Sales Company.
Arriving at the home in the gated Anchor subdivision, a visitor pulls into a broad semi-circular motor court with room for multiple cars to park when the owners are entertaining.
The front entrance is fairly spectacular with a two-story portico and etched glass rose window above the front door.
The front door opens into a foyer with a powder room to the right and the formal dining room to the left. Straight ahead is the two-story 23-foot by 19-foot living room with a glass back wall that lets in views of the pool and deep-water cove frequented by manatees and bottlenose dolphins.
To the left of the living room, on the south side of the house, is a wonderful wide-open social space that includes a beautifully-equipped kitchen, large family room and breakfast area. One of the family room walls is angled to face toward the mouth of the cove.
Directly above the versatile kitchen/family room space is an equally spacious second-floor family room loft that overlooks the living room and has two balconies, one canted to provide a direct view up the cove to its mouth on the Lagoon. A spiral staircase drops down from that balcony to the pool deck below.
Sherry says the second balcony, which overlooks the pool and lanai as well as the lagoon, was the McGraths’ favorite spot to sit and watch the sunset, occasionally with a cocktail in hand.
There are two big guest or children’s rooms, 12-foot by 18-foot, one on the second floor next to a full bath down a short hall from the loft; the other directly below on the first floor that has an en suite bathroom and walk-in closet.
Past the first-floor guest room is the laundry room, loaded with cabinets, drawers and counter space, and the entrance to the 2.5-car garage with room for two cars plus a golf cart.
The owner’s suite is on the opposite side of the house from the guest rooms and family rooms. It consists of a 15-foot-by 18-foot waterfront bedroom with a cathedral ceiling, two walk-in closets that for once are equal size, with the husband getting as much space as the wife, a huge bathroom with double vanities, soaking tub, glassed-in shower and separate water closet with toilet and bidet, and an office/sitting room with a coffered ceiling.
The home has marble floors, high ceilings and tall doors.
Outside, there is carefully tended landscaping in front, and in back a sparkling lagoon-side pool and dock with space for a large boat.
Like all the coves in the Moorings, this one is deep enough to safely operate and securely moor a large cabin cruiser or sailboat.
The Moorings Yacht and Country Club is a 1,160-home community with a wide variety of housing styles that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the lagoon. It has eight miles of deep-water seawall with the ability to accommodate craft form 35 feet to 100 feet. The country club includes an active yacht club, a full-service tennis facility with nine Har-Tru courts, a Pete Dye-designed 18-hole executive golf course, a state-of-the-art fitness center and a magnificent club house with pool and multiple dining and meeting venues.
The club offers a full slate of social, recreational and educational groups and activities and is adjacent to St. Edward’s School, the island’s renowned private K-12 preparatory school.
Traditionally seen as more of a second-home retirement community, it is now benefiting from an influx of fulltime residents and younger families with children who are attracted by the community’s excellent housing stock, amenities and proximity to St. Ed’s.
