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Ambler, Pennsylvania.Second Tamora, a stone manor built in 1898, has eight bedrooms and seven full bathrooms. Features include a marble foyer, three staircases, hand-painted walls, 10 fireplaces, a catering kitchen, a wine cellar, and an indoor lap pool.
The 3.5-acre wooded property includes a tree-lined driveway, courtyard, fountain, formal gardens, four-car garage, and 50-foot swimming pool; the area has quality schools, shopping, dining, and outdoor activities. $2,997,000. Nicole Miller-DeSantis, Coldwell Banker Preferred/Blue Bell, (215) 850-1305.
Washington, D.C. Once the rectory for St. Augustine s Church, this 1947 Renaissance Revival on Logan Circle is now a 10-bedroom home with eight full bathrooms.
The term McMansion did not exist in design vocabulary in 1977 when Myra and Paul Steinberg decided to build a home on Siesta Key in the Roberts Bay Lane neighborhood. And even if it did, that’s not the kind of house they had in mind for their half-acre surrounded by water, sand, mangroves and cedars.
The custom house is made of wood (a lot of wood) in a simple ranch style with a boardwalk extending from the front of the house and many windows to embrace natural light and bring the outside to the inside. With three bedrooms and two baths, the 2,000-square foot home was the Steinberg family paradise for 44 years.
Just as land animals can be affected by deforestation, marine animals can be affected by a decline in seagrass growth, and recent data shows area wildlife could be in trouble.
Following a variety of environmental and human-made factors, Sarasota Bay is experiencing a 12-year loss in seagrass growth.
Preliminary results from the Southwest Florida Water Management District show an 18% decline in seagrass across Sarasota Bay, Roberts Bay and Little Sarasota Bay from 2018 to 2020. The decline equates to loss of 2,300 acres of seagrass.
“A healthy bay leads to a healthy bay, so everything is tied together,” Sarasota Bay Watch Secretary John Ryan said. “Having healthy seagrass is really important to our bay ecosystem because about 75% of marine life have some part of their life in seagrass, so this is not great.”
There is no sign on Higel Avenue at the entrance to Roberts Point, one of the more exclusive neighborhoods on the northern part of Siesta Key. But turn onto the eponymous road and you’re soon in a community that combines a superb maritime location, lush tropical Florida vegetation, and a variety of elegant luxury homes.
“It’s a lovely, dead-end enclave,” said Ray Collins, a realtor with Coldwell Banker. “Suddenly you’re surrounded by water on both sides. It’s quite magical.”
The community and adjacent bay are named after Captain Lewis Roberts who settled on the barrier island in the early 1880s with his wife, Ocean Deep Hansen. Then known as Sarasota Key, it was rife with swarms of mosquitoes, snakes, Florida panthers and wild boars.
2 weeks ago Share Data show an 18% decrease in Sarasota Bay, or a loss of 2,300 acres of sea grass.
Following a variety of environmental and man-made factors, Sarasota Bay is experiencing a 12-year low in seagrass growth.
Preliminary results from the Southwest Florida Water Management District show an 18% decline in seagrass across Sarasota Bay, Roberts Bay and Little Sarasota Bay from 2018 to 2020. The loss equates to a total loss of 2,300 acres of sea grass.
Blackburn Bay showed a slight increase of about 13 acres, but the total acreage of seagrass coverage in the area is down from 12,853 in 2018 to 10,540 in 2020, officials reported. Seagrass levels have not been so low since 2008.