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In Harwich Port, gardens enchant
By KATHY SHARP FRISBEE
Six-bedroom home features lavish grounds
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Details
- LOCATION: 29 Wequasset Road, Harwich Port
- ROOMS: 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms
- BUILT: About 1954; renovated in 2000
- SQUARE FEET: 4,700
- ACRES: .97
- UTILITIES: 3+ zone oil heat, AC, town water
- ANNUAL TAX: $9,245
- PRICE: $2,300,000
- CONTACT: Peter Lomenzo Jr., Lomenzo Properties, Inc. 508-385-4944
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The sensory surprise of this renovated Harwich Port home overlooking Doanes Creek near Nantucket Sound is its 15 botantical garden rooms.
"This was a family project inside and out, and the gardens replaced a lot that was overgrown with poison ivy, bamboo and a rat's nest," owner and landscape architect Donald Milbier said. The gardens are shown at www.patrissilandscape.com.
Completed in 2001, the 30,000 square feet of enchanting hidden gardens include a fountain room with 12-foot high walls of stacked Pennsylvania fieldstone. Salvaged wrought iron rails from a widow's walk that once crowned a vintage Connecticut mansion edge the stone walls along a sunken garden and pond room.
Ornamenting this private park are thousands of flower and vegetable varieties, an espaliered apple tree, trumpet and clematis flower vines cascading from grand custom arbors, and various dogwood, Japanese maple and birch tree species. Hundreds of tree accent lights lend night magic to garden gatherings.
Adding to the awe are 60 custom birdhouses, plus a variety of sculptures with vertical cedar timber, bronze wildlife, metal motion and wind sphere designs. Bluestone terraces link the gardens with the six-bedroom home of Cape and New England colonial design, which was a two-bedroom ranch the Milbiers innovatively reimagined.
Dramatic and free-flowing interior spaces include an angled, spatial kitchen of diagonal-laid cherry plank flooring and cherry counters. The living room, with a creek view, has a Rumford fireplace. The master suite features white plantation shutters on surrounding windows, a sitting room and a limestone-tiled bathroom.
The selection for Cape House Hunt is made by Kathy Sharp Frisbee and does not imply any endorsement or warranty on the part of the Cape Cod Times. Suggestions and photos must be sent to Cape House Hunt, c/o Business Editor, Cape Cod Times, 319 Main St., Hyannis, MA 02601. If you have questions, e-mail kshrpfrs@gis.net.
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Published June 28, 2009 |
