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This estate
of 1.38 acres with
255 Feet of Prime Gold Coast Waterfront and is considered by many to be
the most desirable location on Lake Washington. Originally built
in 1932, refurbished and expanded in 1999 into the most
beautiful home you will ever visit. Old growth
trees, gorgeous gardens, luxury and comfortable. The
approx 17,800 square feet of living and storage space is
now a smart home with expanded security and fire
preventions systems with very user friendly control
panels throughout the estate so that you can see what
your home is doing even when you are out of the country.
Dream location and truly a dream estate, and just ten
minutes from downtown Seattle. |
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Historical Mercer Island Landmark Location:
Proctor Landing:
“Gardiner Proctor and his Indian wife, Ellen, homesteaded 160 acres, the
area from the floating bridge south to S.E.34th Street and
from West Mercer Way to the lakeshore. The year of Proctor’s patent was
1884, though he may have filed his claim five years earlier. He built a
cabin, planted an orchard, and made other improvements. Vitus Schmid’s
daughter recalled Ellen Proctor as “always neatly dressed and a good
housekeeper, who kept the cabin shining and clean.” Gardiner Proctor
died in 1889 and Ellen returned to her people on the Black River.
Site of
the Proctor cabin is about 16 feet from the old (pre-canal) shoreline,
on a spot south of S.E. 32nd formerly known as Lane’s Point.
The walls were of logs, and the floor of hard-packed dirt. It was built
into an excavation in the slope, with its back walls (north) against the
earth and its front, facing south, at ground level. Virginia Ogden
Elliott remembered, as a child living south of Lane’s Point, seeing the
excavation and roofless log walls. Later the roof was replaced, and the
cabin housed a boiler used to heat the Lane home, then nearby.
Part of
the old Proctor homestead was purchased by Dennis Gulliford in 1937. He
said the remains of the cabin straddled his property line. The rotting
logs were a nuisance, so sometime in the 1940’s he and his neighbors
bulldozed the ruins into the excavation. Old-timers still know the
shore end of S.E. 32nd Street as Proctor’s Landing, but only
on Proctor Lane, actually the southern end of 60th Avenue
S.E., is the name of this pioneer couple still used officially on the
Island that was their home.”
Excerpt
from the Book Mercer Island Heritage.
All showings are By
Appointment with Kris Robbs 206-949-8611 to qualified buyers only.
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