Location: Newbury, N.H.
Price: $4.95 million Dean LeBaron, co-founder of Batterymarch Financial, spent 35 years building and improving his dream home: a three-story house with 200 feet of water frontage on New Hampshire’s Lake Sunapee that he calls Waypointe. Designed by Boston architect Jeremiah Eck, the home has four bedrooms, 4½ bathrooms and a number of unusual architectural features. In the entryway, guests are greeted by a waterfall that flows down a copper chute from the second level. A glass ceiling allows natural light to pour into the living room, which includes a library brimming with books. The kitchen leads to a solarium with a retractable sunroof and 50-foot indoor swimming pool. Embedded in the limestone floors are 150-million-year-old plant and vertebrate fossils. There’s also a bar and a glass elevator to the second floor master bedroom, “to facilitate early morning swims,” LeBaron explained. A theater is located on the home’s lower level, while a separate guesthouse features a “tree house”-style cantilevered bedroom. Although the home was finished many years ago, LeBaron admits that to him, it’s a work in progress. “The best idea I have is always the next one,” he said, referring to his penchant for adding unusual design elements. LeBaron is selling the estate to move to Casey Key, an 8-mile-long barrier island off Florida’s west coast, where he owns one house and is building another. “It’s an addiction,” he said with a laugh. Agent: Pamela Perkins, Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty View the full listing.
The property is surrounded by 20 acres of protected woodland. “There will be no more neighbors,” said listing agent Pamela Perkins.
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