The Hermitage

Grand Residence with HUGE INCOME POTENTIAL.

This house was born to be a Bed and Breakfast or Elegant Wedding Venue with accommodations.  Six huge bedrooms all with full baths AND a guest Cottage with 3 bedrooms hidden away on 32 acres in the country.

The amount of potential is mind-boggling – Single Residence with homesteading possibilities, multi-family compound (main house plus a 3-bedroom cottage), Executive Retreat, Bed & Breakfast, High-End Inn, Wedding Venue, Wellness Spa, even the possibility of a world-class recording studio utilizing the huge music hall with its built-in Aeolian Skinner Pipe Organ. Old-world Elegance meets endless possibilities and income potential.

Imagine falling asleep to a chorus of crickets and awakening to a fresh breeze and the sweet sound of hundreds of songbirds singing outside your window.  Envision families of deer frolicking on the lawn as you gaze out while eating breakfast.  Bask in the glory of nature as the seasons announce themselves with hundreds of enchanting flowers, trees, and shrubs in a continual changing canvas that celebrates Mother Nature’s finery.

All of this from the comfort of one of the most beautiful, unique, and masterfully built homes in the country.  You get small-town living with its quaint, quiet, friendly atmosphere, AND access to world-class entertainment, shopping, and three international travel hubs located just 90 minutes away — Cleveland, Columbus, and Detroit. It’s the best of everything without the stress.

This house is a four-story masterpiece built by European craftsmen. Whether you’re curled up by the fire in the walnut paneled library or entertaining with style in the elegant dining room entirely imported from France and trimmed with intricately molded ceilings, Italian marble, and a Tiffany Chandelier, it is unlike any other home.

You feel like you’re got a front row seat to nature’s spectacles as you relax in the sun-dappled Solarium complete with hand-painted glass doors from a French Chalet. And, music lovers will swoon with delight at one of the most unique sounds in any home in America, your very own Skinner-Aeolian pipe organ — one of only 13 remaining in private residences.  This magnificent instrument, with its full complement of pipes, is majestically situated in the massive music hall complete with vaulted ceilings, soaring windows, wood paneling, and a huge stone fireplace.

To complement these beautiful rooms, there are six spacious bedrooms each with its own full bath, a spacious kitchen with built-in wall refrigerator, linen/dish pantry, food pantry, breakfast room, office, exercise room, laundry room, darkroom, ballroom, two storage rooms, walk-in cedar closets, tons of storage space, and a four-car subterranean garage.  And that’s just the beginning of the surprises with this property.

The charming guest cottage features 3 bedrooms, one full bath, a sunroom, dining room, sitting room with fireplace, kitchen, and full basement.  It sits adjacent to the house and can be used for guests, additional family members, as a mother-in-law’s quarters, bridal suite, VRBO, or rental.

There is also a two-horse stable and pole barn (35’ x 48’) which provides RV parking, parking for the guest house, or a place to store equipment, additional vehicles, or implements.  It includes a huge generator used as back-up power in case of outages.

For garden lovers, this house boasted five full-time gardeners at one time.  Enjoy thousands of daffodils in spring along with redbuds, crocus, bluebells, magnolia, dogwood, rhododendron, and azaleas, plus other surprises like morel mushrooms.  Sit in the summer house enjoying the sounds of the fountain’s water gently inviting you to daydream or relax, stretched out on the terrace which also lulls its guests with its whimsical frog fountain

Location is everything and that couldn’t be truer than at The Hermitage. If the outdoors is your thing, you have access to the Great Lakes with some of the best fishing and sailing, Cedar Point — The Roller Coaster Capital of the World, Amish country — a step back in time with farms and home cooking, The Appalachian trail and parks with hiking, canoeing, and camping all within a half day’s drive or less.

If world-class entertainment is your thing, make a night of it with fine dining and the Cleveland Orchestra (one of the country’s ”big five”), or a night at Playhouse square.  Of course, there’s also The Foxx Theatre in Detroit, or the Ohio Theatre in Columbus.

And if shopping is what you want, there are plenty of choices all within an easy day’s excursion to fill your closet, pantry, or home.

The Hermitage is located in the heart of it all, a perfect blend of open farmland punctuated by modern industry. True to its name, The Hermitage is a palace hideaway.

And for you history buffs…

George Kalbfleisch, the general manager of the Great Western Pottery, which later became American Standard, built this 10,000 sq ft English Tudor home in the early 1920’s to showcase treasures he had collected from across Europe. He hired prominent, local architect, George Netcher to design this masterpiece. Nestled between tranquil meadows and bucolic woodlands, it sits atop a hill overlooking a four-acre lake to the west and the Sandusky River to the east. This property is a perfect candidate for the National Register.

Details

Property ID
686237

6
Bedrooms

7.5
Bathrooms

Square Footage
10000

Lot Size
32

Year Built
1926

Style
Tudor

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