EXTERIOR FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS

  • French Normandy original architecture with attached 2 car heated garage equipped with working 2-bedroom coach house and office space

  • Created “The Botanical Gardens” of the North Shore like a boutique hotel on the lake executed with the top civil engineers, masonry experts, and landscaping architects

  • Custom wrought iron fences, railing & gates with custom scrolls and braided details

  • An extensive outdoor lighting and sound system enhances the ambience of the manicured lawns and endless beds of flowers

  • Landscape features include approximately 150 25ft high evergreens for privacy

  • The grounds are perfectly appointed with sculptured Topiary trees, antique benches, Italian hand carved sandstone wishing well which is original to the house and new additions as well

  • Underground sprinkler system throughout both properties (front and rear)

  • Multiple terraces, bluestone patios with Lannon Stone masonry walls and layered landscaping looking over the lake

  • Rear bluestone terrace steps down to an expansive lawn edged with a stone balustrade overlooking Lake Michigan

  • Stairs along the North lead down the bluff to a 223 ft wide sandy beach

  • Commercial level boat house with oversized custom doors that allow easy access for remote control sand rovers

  • Room for water skiing boat, multiple jet skis and all water toys

  • Layered protection from Lake Michigan with a deliberate water erosion/retention plan to protect the beach (sea wall, middle wall, and balustrade wall)

  • Hand-picked boulders (some with flat surfaces for a walking path)

  • Boardwalk – with a 4x4 concrete wall underneath

  • Lannon Stone sea wall that is several feet deep with an additional wall behind the sea wall

  • Commercially built changing rooms built into the bluff. His & Her limestone locker-rooms, 2 sets of commercial level washer & dryers, storage & mechanicals

  • Zero Edge Pool by Bolini with hot tub that seamlessly blends the lake (system engineered for the pool to be covered with a drop-down water system)

  • Bluestone patios surround pool with a custom firepit entertaining area

  • “Nailess” custom built pergola with a bluestone entertaining patio

  • 2 lightning strike systems (preventive strike rod system to take any lightning to the ground)

  • Separate structure in the front yard with a generator (2020), snow melt, and garbage storage

  • Resleeved entire sewer piping

  • Backflow & storm prevention system in place