55 Saint Johns Pl, New Canaan, CT 06840

A one-of-a-kind in-town estate in downtown New Canaan. Built in 1898, this over 6000 SF estate has only become available 3 times in the last 100 years. This home has an impossible to duplicate rare "in town" combination of privacy, being backed by 10 acres, large main house, luxury pool & pool house, 2 green houses, 3-car garage all within a 4-minute walk to downtown & train to NYC. The current owners purchased the estate for $2.2 M in 1999 and added nearly $1 M of renovations and additions. The 5,300 SF main house has 6 bedrooms, 5 full bathrooms & 1 half-bathroom. The separate master suite consists of 2 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and a dressing room.Additional spaces include the library/office offering beautifully detailed built-ins & fireplaces, wine room, full gym, modern eat-in kitchen with 3 dishwashers, open family room, private separate dining room & over-sized living room with stunning built-in dry bar. Floor to ceiling enormous bay windows & high ceilings throughout the house bring a modern, open and bright feeling to this vintage home. Thick European plastered-walls throughout the 3 floors of living space provide a variety of very quiet, private and separate home-office and homework areas on all 3 floors. The current owners re-wired, re-plastered and restored this home, while being careful to match and retain irreplaceable interior details, from swag carved doors and fir floors to 40s Deco bath fittings and Bakelite-handled kitchen cabinets. A second building, one of the last remaining 100 antique barns in New Canaan, sits on the property and houses a three-car garage, green house, potting area, half-bath and pool house (currently used as a 600 sq. ft. home office). Detailed plans, along with an open building permit, afford the buyer an additional 1000 square feet above the garage for either a separate apartment, in-law suite, great room or additional private offices. Rounding out the out-buildings on this estate is a fully-working, plumbed and heated second English greenhouse for plants or a private hide-away or office. Benefited by grand-fathered zoning laws, the buildings on the property sit at the edges of the land, allowing for wide-open play spaces combined with beautifully manicured gardens and mature plantings which create a series of "outdoor rooms." This property offers the best blend of old, new, town and country available to today's discerning buyer.