About this Single Family Home
Get away from the city and enjoy private country living in this custom built 11,000 square foot French Country style mansion on approximately 50 acres /- for sale in east central Indiana, just east of Muncie, Indiana. Country living at its finest. If you like to fish, swim, hunt, hike, jog, shoot, ride your ATV, grow your own food, or just enjoy nature in while seated in a huge 40 foot diameter gazebo with mahogany deck and shake roof flanking a fully stocked 6 acre pond, this is the property for you.
Three level home features 5 bedrooms and 6 baths. Main level includes a custom built chefs kitchen with prep island, 3 ovens, microwave, pantry and more, 3 fireplaces, 2 living rooms, elevated dining room, solarium with pool and pond view, library with custom oak shelving and storage, media room with refrigerator and wet bar, 3 bedrooms and master suite, laundry room, beauty/barber shop, 3 car garage with 4 storage rooms.
Enter the almost 1000 sq ft master suite with sitting room, dressing area, fireplace, wet bar, his and hers vanities, huge walk-in closet, jacuzzi tub, and a large tiled shower. Master suite overlooks the heated 16 x 32 in ground pool surrounded by a huge impressed brick patio. First floor ceiling heights vary from 12 to 16 with indirect lighting, one domed ceiling and 2 stepped up ceilings, crown moldings, the best of the best.
A spiral oak stairway leads you to the basement. This level includes a living room with fireplace, an amazing game room with professional shuffleboard, pool table, built in booth, room for many arcade or pinball games game room is approx 20 x 40, next comes the exercise room with full mirrored wall and one glass brick wall, a full bar room with custom made 15 oak bar and back bar, complete with brass foot rail, next comes the office with built in bookcase shelves and cabinets and custom built desk and filing system. There is an egress off of the office room. Also in the basement are 3 heating/cooling/storage areas.
The home is heated and cooled by three 5 ton geothermal systems with 3 air handlers which provide quite economical energy costs. There are 2 water heaters, 2 water softeners, and 2 central vacuum systems.
Upstairs off the kitchen is a 900 sq ft mother-in-law suite or servants quarters with full bath and closet.
The home is landscaped on all 4 sides with a variety of sculptured shrubbery, sculptured trees, bushes and ground cover. There are 2 wells on the ground include 22 acres of mowed lawn around the pond and house, 5 very large landscape berms covered with trees provide a beautiful setting as well as privacy. There are over 250 mature trees on the grounds from pines to river birch and a few exotic varieties. The 16X 32 in ground pool is surrounded by over 2000 sq ft of impressed brick patio up to the veranda and is secured by a custom wrought iron fence.
The estate is situated on a corner of 2 county roads and is around 100 yards off each road and has 2 paved driveways entering from the north and the east. Ten minutes to Muncie Mall, around an hour to Indianapolis and Fort Wayne on Interstate 69, you are close to many sports, shopping, and artistic venues including Indianapolis Colts and Pacers and Fort Wayne Komets hockey. The property tax rate of only 1 is quite a relief from the large metro areas of the country. Also,a homestead credit lowers this rate substantially. Total energy cost to heat/cool, electricity, etc is 520 USD per month. For a slideshow of interior pictures go to http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii275/retzmark/Parker20City20Indiana20Estate/actionviewampcurrent25c063c1.pbw
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