I happened onto an amazing house in Gulf Breeze yesterday. But a little googling tells me it aint the most amazing.

Markle wrote:

Nekochan wrote:Why would you need 4 more baths than bedrooms?  I can see a couple of powder rooms in a house that size but not 4 more bathrooms than bedrooms.  
I never like any of these crazy big beach houses I see.  Just too much, too big.  And I don't like the style of most of them.

There is probably a large recreation room with wet bar, another off the pool area, one in the office, one near the living and dining rooms, one out by the tennis courts.

That explains it. 

2seaoat wrote:Some of the best time I have spent on the beach has been in a simple block slab ranch barely 900 feet.   I have been in some fancy beach penthouses, but some of my memories going over to Panama City in basically beach wood sheds with barebone facilities........my brother built his 13k mansion on the mountain with an elevator and spent 75k on the projector in his theater......insane......but folks who have made a great deal of money try to keep up with other people who have made a great deal of money......and one day they wake up from the trance......and realize that the simple beach block home.....had it all.

Nekochan wrote:Who is Will Mullet?


Chairman and founder of Wayne-Dalton garage doors. That looks like the house Benson the owner of N.O. Saints built but sold and never moved in.  Don't know what zillow listed for Levin, but he supposedly sold that not too long after Ivan and he lives in Pensacola, what I've heard.

doubtingthomas wrote:If you can ever get into Peake's Point for an estate go just to see those homes. While they were selling lots and had very few homes up there you could drive and walk around in there, once developed there is a gate and no one except owner's go thru or google the area and zoom in to some of those.

doubtingthomas wrote:I believe one of those homes belongs to Stanley Levin's widow and I don't know the other two.

doubtingthomas wrote: Don't know what zillow listed for Levin, but he supposedly sold that not too long after Ivan and he lives in Pensacola, what I've heard.

Nekochan wrote:My style would be more like--Frank Lloyd Wright on the beach.  The showcase of this kind of lot is the lot itself.  The house should blend in with the lot.  Probably not so easy to do on a flat piece of land with no trees.  But if I had $10 million, I'd work on it or find someone to work on it for me.  When I see these pictures of the beach houses, I see big ugly houses on beautiful lots.  Actually, they don't even look like houses.

doubtingthomas wrote:I believe one of those homes belongs to Stanley Levin's widow and I don't know the other two.

Sir BP wrote:Who owned Wharf Ave before it was developed? That property was vacant like forever. Kind of a odd place to build homes, Imagine looking out your kitchen window & saying, "oh (3) mile bridge is so beautiful this morning".

Bob wrote:

doubtingthomas wrote: Don't know what zillow listed for Levin, but he supposedly sold that not too long after Ivan and he lives in Pensacola, what I've heard.

Joanimaroni wrote:

doubtingthomas wrote:I believe one of those homes belongs to Stanley Levin's widow and I don't know the other two.

Allen Levin built the first one and I believe  AL Terhaar and
James  Cronley may have built there...they were the developers.

That's right it was Allen not Stanley.

doubtingthomas wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:

doubtingthomas wrote:I believe one of those homes belongs to Stanley Levin's widow and I don't know the other two.

Allen Levin built the first one and I believe  AL Terhaar and
James  Cronley may have built there...they were the developers.

That's right it was Allen not Stanley.