A decidedly un-Florida-wanting household in Florida has strike the current market for $16.9 million.
The eye-popping property’s uncommon aesthetic genuinely stands out among the palm trees.
That is probably simply because the Gothic Revival home’s architectural details originated in a various position solely.
“They came from a New York church, and it is very, incredibly one of a kind to Naples, FL,” suggests listing agent Paul Arpin, with Premier Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty. “It’s situated on one of the nicer pieces of waterfront [property].”

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‘Very fairly home’
From the instant you technique the 7,783-square-foot estate—by drinking water or land—you see the exclusive building facts, these as gingerbread gables and extensive porches.
“When you search at the shots of the outside, I assume it speaks for by itself,” states Arpin. “It’s a really very household. The high-quality and the depth of the house and the layout are excellent.”
The house owners developed the home in 2007, employing many pieces salvaged from the 1st Baptist Church in the Williamsburg location of Brooklyn, NY. The church was built in the 1800s and salvaged in 2003.
Church confessionals turned an amusement cupboard, railings from the choir space encompass the staircase, and stained-glass windows are section of the entry doors.
“This dwelling does not need to be remodeled,” Arpin claims. “It requirements to have [a buyer] place their touches on it.”
He describes that the home’s new proprietor should really continue thoughtfully with main alterations, particularly when it comes to the space’s church-derived information.
“If you paint, you need to be very careful—because at the time you do it, you can’t have the wooden yet again,” Arpin says.

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Pleasant particulars
There are four bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms, lots of residing area, and even a shaft for an elevator.
“It truly lives very well,” Arpin notes. “You have a wonderful entrance, and you have a dining area and living space on either side and then you stroll in, and you have a spouse and children area, a sitting down room, and a kitchen—all main to the outside spot on the again of the property.”
The 50 percent-acre, waterfront grounds provide a pool, fountain, and boat dock.
Arpin states the sellers constructed the location in 2007, because they favored the Gothic type. Compared to other the latest builds in the region, the dwelling absolutely can make a statement.
“We contact them now white bins that are becoming crafted,” Arpin says. “People are nevertheless liking these white packing containers, but they’re beginning to glance at other possibilities.”

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On the waterfront
The home’s list price of just about $17 million is a fantastic deal, mostly since of its waterfront great deal, Arpin notes.
“Just the land by yourself in today’s industry would be value over $10 million,” he says. “To copy this masterpiece would be in the selection of $30 million with the land and the price of creating. It is possibly shut to double what they are asking for the residence.”
He emphasizes that the buyers could certainly make their own exclusive modifications to the dwelling.
“The owners produced their own masterpiece with what they did, but someone else can make their individual masterpiece and change what they want to give it their individual design and style,” Arpin states. “It will nonetheless be a spectacular property.”

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