Bracebridge Hall, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 3rd 2006 at 1:01PM

One of the stateliest homes in Maryland recently hit the market. Bracebridge Hall is a brick Georgian created in 1990 by architect David Easton. The home is 38,000 square feet of elegant style. This home is located on an impressive 557 acres of countryside with around one mile of shoreline on tributaries of Chesapeake Bay. This home includes a stately columned center hall, a large living room with a coffered ceiling and views to the river. The dining room has an Asian-design mural and the paneled library includes a corner fireplace and floor-to-ceiling glass doors with access to terrace.

The home has eight bedrooms including a master suite that has a fireplace and a marble bath with a whirlpool as well as a steam shower. The kitchen is designed for entertaining with commercial appliances and a center island with six workstations. The lower level of the home includes a billiards room, sitting room and mechanical rooms including four back-up generating systems. There is also a barn on the property as well as a two two-story Williamsburg Colonial style homes. Perhaps the strangest room on the entire estate is the conference room, a round room with a domed ceiling that is currently home to a massive boardroom table. Bracebridge Hall is listed at $34.5 million. After the jump, you could rule the world from your own home.

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Adam Oct 3rd 2006 2:19PM

Knights of the round table maybe?

Spectacular Bid Oct 3rd 2006 4:31PM

This property after it was first built languished on the market for many years [mid 1990's] with a very heavy price tag, relatively speaking compared to today, and different name.

After that sale it sprouted the very ugly wing reflective of its conference purposes. The original David Easton "horse shoe" colonial designed structure was never his best work, but made even worse now with that appendage.

Rather sad as the Eastern Shore (Talbot Co.) is perhaps one of the most lovely sections of the US.

AZ Oct 3rd 2006 10:04PM

Nice home. But $34 million. I would pay $10 million. They probably only spent maybe $5 or $6 million to build it. Then again, you could sell 100 1 acre parcels for $500,000 to make a nice profit.

jacob Oct 4th 2006 5:24PM

Finally, a place with a sufficient war room for controlling the world from, excellent. Now it just needs to be retrofitted with an underground bunker, and possibly an air force base mwhahahahahaha

Spectacular Bid Oct 13th 2006 2:22PM

The Wall Street Journal "Private Properties" for Friday Oct 13, 2006 confirmed my prior comments.

The property built by the late FL-developer William J. Crocker was on the market from 1992 - 1997 for an asking price of $14 million; it finally sold to credit card behemoth MBNA (a/k/a Maryland Bank National Association now part of BoA) for $4.35 in '97, they expanded it and used it as conference center. It was divested in a sale to Maryland-based developers in Nov 2004 for $13.6 million.

A flashback to the buyers (now sellers) and the transaction: "MBNA sold its 550-acre hunting retreat and 40,000-square-foot mansion in Earleville, on the Eastern Shore portion of Cecil County, to Bracebridge Estates LLC—a partnership of Skayhan, Pineau, and Geppi—for $13.6 million, in a transaction financed by MBNA."
Source: http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=10127