The classic riverfront home at 1945 Mooringline Drive is a great home for entertaining. It has an exceptionally open and spacious interior with large public rooms and extensive outdoor space that can easily accommodate a gathering of 150 people.
At the same time, it is a perfect house for quiet living in harmony with nature, situated on a very private .61-acre riverfront lot with a deep-water dock and 110 lineal feet of frontage on a thriving stretch of the Indian River Lagoon, a waterway famous for its great boating, fishing and wildlife-viewing opportunities.
Home to more than 1,000 bottlenose dolphins, rare West Indian manatees and an incredible variety of birdlife and game fish, the Lagoon is believed to be the most biodiverse estuary in the United States, supporting more than 4,000 species.
The 4,900-square-foot house is designed and aligned to take full advantage of it superb location, with glass sliders making up most of the south-facing back walls on the both the first and second floors. A wide covered second-floor balcony and expansive screened-in patio provide more than 2,000 square feet of outdoor living space – and that is in addition to a pool patio overlooking the lagoon and a large grassy back lawn.
“You cannot beat this location,” say Moorings Realty broker Marsha Sherry. “The river views are exquisite.”
The house looks great from the front, too, with well-tended landscaping, a fieldstone clad chimney and an arched footbridge leading from the paver motor court to the front porch.
Entering the double-door front entrance, one steps into an elegant foyer from which the home’s spacious design, distinguished architecture and sweeping river views are immediately evident.
The formal dining room set beneath a tray ceiling is to the right of the foyer, the big living room straight ahead. The living room connects to the screened patio via a series of wide sliding glass doors and flows into a breakfast area adjacent to the kitchen.
The updated kitchen with handsome granite countertops and fine cabinetry connects to a huge family room with a handsome fireplace set in a wall encased in coral stone with a raised coral stone hearth. The family room also includes a built-in office area and a window wall that lets in plenty of light.
A hallway leads from the family room to a wing with a laundry room and two guest bedrooms, each with a full bath.
The master bedroom occupies the entire side of the house to the left of the entryway. It includes a practically endless walk-in closet, a Roman tub/shower and a large bedroom with lagoon views.
Access to the home’s second floor is via an open, modernist staircase and the upstairs space overlooks the foyer on three sides, with a surrounding rail in the same style and as the staircase balustrade.
The bulk of the second floor is occupied by a second oversize family room, this one with a cedar-lined cathedral ceiling and glass doors leading out onto the riverfront balcony. There is also an office with a water view, a sitting area and a half-bath.
Part of the upstairs could easily be converted to a fourth and even a fifth bedroom with only minor structural alterations while still preserving the large family room.
Built in 1983, the house has had only one owner, who has taken good care of the property.
The home is a great opportunity for a family wanting to enjoy the Moorings highly-regarded country club lifestyle, a retired couple looking for a fulltime home in the Florida sun, or someone seeking an ideal vacation home.
The dock can accommodate a large boat and opportunities for recreation abound on the river and the ocean, with unspoiled beaches just a short distance away on the Atlantic side of the community.
The Intracoastal Waterway passes by close to the home’s backyard and provides access to a number of charming river towns with waterside restaurants and historic downtowns, as well as the Fort Pierce Inlet that leads to the ocean. There is renowned big game fishing out in the Gulf Stream a few miles offshore and the Bahamas are only 100 miles away
The Moorings Yacht and Country Club offers two golf courses, a major tennis center, a state-of-the-art fitness center with spa, a yacht club and first-class clubhouse with resort pool and multiple dining venues, all overlooking the picturesque lagoon.
St. Edward’s School, a private academy that has been educating island children for 50 years, is right next door, and Vero’s village by the sea with shopping, fine dining and luxury hotels is just a few miles north on picturesque A1A
