For $11 million, you could buy a mansion on Mount Desert Island and be the neighbor of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell.
The home sits on 6.5 acres and was built in 2012 by the current owners, investment banker H. Winston Holt IV and his wife, Jennifer T. Holt, according to assessing records on file with the town of Mount Desert. It is located on Rock Garden Way, which is a private gated road in the village of Seal Harbor.
The 6,800-square-foot house consists of 32 total rooms, including six bedrooms and six bathrooms, according to the town’s assessing records. It has a wine cellar, a dumbwaiter and, though it is not an oceanfront property, “panoramic ocean vistas” to the south, according to the real estate listing.
The property, which abuts Acadia National Park, has a gently sloping long granite ledge immediately behind the home that also offers ocean views, the listing indicates. It also has a heated pool and a separate 1,100-square-foot pool house that also was built in 2012, with a billiards table, a full bathroom and a kitchenette.
But it is not the most expensive house currently on the market in Seal Harbor. An 11,000-square-foot oceanfront mansion on Cooksey Drive is currently listed for sale for $16 million. It was previously listed three years ago for $25 million by its current owner, retired venture capitalist Joseph Fogg III of Naples, Florida.
The Holts have owned the Rock Garden Way property since 2007, when they purchased it for $1.6 million — several years before they built their home on it. The current assessed values of the property are $1.4 million for the parcel of land and $3.4 million for the buildings, for a total of $4.8 million.
George Mitchell, the former U.S. Senate majority leader from Maine, owns a summer home to the immediate north of the Holt property. Other wealthy and influential summer residents in the neighborhood include billionaires Mitchell Rales and Robert Bass, David Rockefeller Jr., television producer Dick Wolf and Martha Stewart.
