Weekly/McDowell Home – 37659 King’s Highway

The Weekly/McDowell Home at 37659 Kings Highway A beautiful home on the Southern Edge of the town of St. James. This large home sits in the middle of a 4.82 Acre Parcel of landscaped woods. It has four bedrooms with four and one half baths (Each bedroom has its own in-suite bathroom). This home was custom built for the owner of the Villages in Florida and everything about it is state of the art and first class. It has a western/ mountain lodge motif throughout. You have to see it to appreciate all its special features. Much of the interior paneling is Florida Pine and the flooring is reclaimed lumber. All closets have aromatic cedar paneling walls. It has a covered porch over the main entrance on the circular drive side of the house. There is a fantastic 12’ by 43’ screened-in porch across the whole back of the house with a big table on the South side and a barbecue area at the North end. The land to the West of the home has a no development conservation easement for this property’s privacy. A four car plus drive-in garage is part of the full basement. The house has two propane central heating furnaces. A large outside condenser provides whole house air conditioning. A large automatic propane powered generator is in place for power outages. A Deep Well provides absolutely perfect water to all parts of the house with no need for filters.  The roof is a $55,000 lifetime guarantee metal roof of heavy duty Galvalume metal. The house has 2940 sq. feet of finished living area on the two floors according to the contractor. There is much more to this house’s features and special systems than we can outline here. See the Bullet Points list of features on our website. The couple that built this house put over $1.5 Million into building it- not counting the land. The raw land value is $175,000 and current replacement cost of this home would be $1,764,000 making this property’s replacement cost $1,939,000. All of the furnishings and personal property that anyone would need for a wonderful package will be sold to a buyer at a reasonable price. The Real Estate will be sold at 1,050,000

Features not in the description:

• All Pella Windows throughout the house

• The Propane Tank is a 1000 gallon special build tank that is underground.

• The furnaces, the generator, the large hot water heater, and the two fire places all use liquid propane gas as their fuel sources.

• The house looks like it is just Stick-built of wood but there are quite a number of heavy steel beams and steel pipes through to the basement floor footings for engineered support of the large rooms and garage.

• A special circulating pump keeps the hot water faucets, spouts, and showerspouts with instantaneous hot water at all times.

• Most of the flooring in the house is re-milled lumber from out West – to add to the Western motif.

•  The kitchen ovens/stoves are extremely high quality and very expensive units.

• There are liquor and wine closets very close to the Kitchen area.

• There is a bar area with special refrigeration units very close to the kitchen sitting counter top

• There is a massive special butcher block meal preparation and cutting area in the center of the kitchen.

• The Galvalume heavy duty metal roof is manufactured so as to keep its original rust color uninform and permanent color for decades according to the contractor.

• The large screen porch on the Westside of the house is not just an attachment but is connected to the house with an extension of the main house foundation and footings (poured concrete.)

• The house is super insulated for year round heating and cooling with a special R-factor sprayed foam on the ceilings and above.

• The automatic generator can carry the house and all its electric needs. It comes on even if people are not there.