A unique coincidence.
That’s how the listing for a 3,378-square-foot Mediterranean-style house on the waterfront of China Cove in Corona del Mar for $16.8 million reads as one of three side-by-side properties on the market.
Located in the 2700 block of Shell Street, these active listings are individually priced from $15.5 million to shy of $24 million and offer “a rare and maybe the only chance to buy” all three for a combined $56.3 million, the same listing suggests.
Two of the properties stand on the former site of China House, a pagoda-style landmark built by department store magnate William Lindsay in 1929 that gave China Cove its name. In 1987, China House was demolished.
While these homes vary in square footage, architectural style and lot size, they offer a front row to harbor happenings like the annual Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade.
Here they are in a nutshell:
$23.995 million
Size: 5,276 square feet, five bedrooms, six bathrooms
Home: This property is marketed as a “unicorn” where “you may build two significant homes or one epic estate.”
It has been in the same family for 60 years and was later expanded. In the 1970s, the owners scooped up the neighboring house when it came up for sale. They combined the two homes dating to 1956 into one with skylights running down the middle. A glass section built into the living room floor, meanwhile, offers a view of the shore below where the now-adult children of the owner used to play.
Other highlights include wraparound patios, a rock mound breakwater built in the early ’80s after storms took out the dock and direct access to the sand. Water surrounds the property.
Listing agents: Adrienne Brandes and Jim Weisenbach of Surterre Properties
$16.8 million
Size: 3,378 square feet, four bedrooms, four bathrooms
Home: When China House was demolished, this Mediterranean-style house rose up in two stories of French limestone, Italian marble and wrought iron.
Its open floorplan holds a…
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