Mary Magee found plenty to love about her landmarked house at 284 Monterey Road.
Mary Magee has longtime ties to Palm Beach. Her late parents, Ronald and Louise Craigmyle, started wintering here in the 1950s, and she visited them frequently.
Then in 2009, she moved to the island from Locust Valley on New York’s Long Island and purchased a 1940s-era home at 284 Monterey Road.
“I looked at many, many houses, and they seemed all the same or just felt like a house with rooms and walls,” she recalls. “When I saw this house for the first time, I thought to myself: This is not a house, it’s a home.”
She also appreciated the property’s location at the intersection of North Lake Way, 10 blocks north of the Palm Beach Country Club. “I love the North End. It feels warm, friendly and safe,” she says.
She now plans to move closer to her son who lives in Palm Beach Gardens, and as such, she has listed her four-bedroom, three-bath home, with 2,151 square feet of living space inside and out, with agents Nicole Guari and Mae Ferguson of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. They have it priced at $5.2 million.
Liking its vintage vibe, eight years ago she submitted the Bermuda-style house to the town’s Landmark Preservation Committee, which granted it a landmark designation, preserving its streetside exteriors from alterations unless approved by the board.
The house, completed in 1941, was designed by master architect Marion Sims Wyeth, founding partner of Wyeth and King, and built by contractor and developer E.B. Walton Inc., most likely as a speculative investment, according to the town's landmark designation report. The company was founded by Ernest Benjamin Walton Sr., whose career began in the boom times of the 1920s.
The report takes note of signature architectural elements of the Bermuda style — stucco-clad exterior walls, shutters at the windows, hip roofs covered in white tile and a chimney with a geometric wind-cap.
The foyer leads to the living room and sunroom, both in the center of the residence. The sunroom opens to a covered patio overlooking the pool, as does the east wing’s dining room.
Also in the east wing are the kitchen, the one-car garage and a guest bedroom suite with a separate entrance. In the west wing are two guest bedrooms, which share a bathroom, as well as the master suite, where more French doors open to the pool area.
The original oak floors can be found in most of the rooms except for the tiled floors in the sunroom, kitchen and bathrooms.
Magee appreciated the vintage kitchen so much so that when it came time to replace the stove, she searched for one that would be compatible with the original era of the house. It’s hard to tell, in fact, that the stove is a modern appliance.
“It was the kind of kitchen that I grew up with and that I had in my previous home, and it just made the house really feel like ‘home.’ And that made it even harder for me to find an oversized 1940-style kitchen stove with the right dimensions,” she says.
Among her favorite features in the house are the bay window in the living room, as well as the fireplace.
“I’ve reconstructed the fireplace,” she says. “It works beautifully.”
She also replaced the air-conditioning and updated the pool.
She also has enjoyed spending time in her sunroom, which has a beamed ceiling.
“It runs the length of the living room with lots of French doors and lots of light,” she says.
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