Planned back in the last part of the 1940s by noted scene draftsman Lockwood de Timberland Jr., the peaceful Montecito retreat is overflowing with pleasant mountain and sea vistas.
Ann Lurie has raised her long-lasting midcentury home in St Nick Barbara’s opulent coastline Montecito territory onto the market with an almost $12.9 million sticker price. Records show the unmistakable altruist — widow of the late Chicago business visionary Robert H. Lurie, an accomplice of land head honcho Sam Zell, as well as part proprietor of the Chicago White Sox and Bulls sports groups — gained the rambling home for $8.3 million somewhat more than a long time back, back in summer 2005.
Initially planned and worked in the last part of the 1940s via scene modeler Lockwood de Timberland Jr., and thusly refreshed and extended as the years progressed, the property is sited on north of 3 sections of land, in the midst of a walled and gated parkway parcel overflowing with mature oak, redwood and natural product trees, and is displayed by a rambling five-room, five-shower fundamental house embellished all through with provincial wood highlights and far reaching walls of glass giving consistent indoor/open air environs.
Features incorporate a passage lobby beat by a wood-managed lookout window, as well as an office donning an underlying work area, a media room and comfortable lounge warmed by an eye-getting chimney. The kitchen is furnished with a focal island, impeccable machines and a going with breakfast niche, and somewhere else is a fireside ace retreat flaunting a shower outfitted with a steel-encased dousing tub and sauna.
Particularly standing apart are the lush grounds, which have an intricate kitchen and grill arrangement resting close to an in the open air feasting region, alongside a depressed fire-pit, and gigantic limitlessness edge pool and spa flanked by a wood sundeck neglecting the stunning landscape. There’s likewise a different one-room, one-shower guesthouse with its own living region and kitchen, in addition to a separated three-vehicle carport.
Lurie acquired her better half’s significant abundance after his 1990 demise from colon malignant growth at age 48. As leader of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Establishment, she’s since made it her full-time mission to subsidize different causes, including disease exploration and youngsters’ medical services. Among her biggest gifts to date: a $100 million commitment in 2007 to the Youngsters’ Remembrance Clinic to assist with building another pediatric exploration medical clinic; finished in 2012, it was named the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Kids’ Clinic of Chicago.
She recently sold a memorable 18,000-square-foot home in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood to the Latin School of Chicago for $12 million of every 2017 — the most extravagant deal in the Chicago region at that point.
The posting is by the Randy Solakian Bequests Gathering, a group subsidiary with the Montecito office of Coldwell Financier Realty.
