Miami, Roads Neighborhood home

Comfortable 100 year old, two-story, light-filled Spanish Mediterranean style home, in final stages of lengthy renovation & expected to be available by November 2025.

There are 4 bedrooms (2 large & 2 small) & 2 full baths upstairs, and a half bath downstairs. The living room (with working fireplace), full dining room, kitchen & den are downstairs.

French doors open from living room onto a deep, covered front porch running the full width of the house. It's a great place to sit & catch the prevailing breezes off Biscayne Bay & enjoy the birds in the huge old live oak tree that shades the house.

The renovation includes an entirely new kitchen, half bath, and den downstairs & new shower bath upstairs. There is a driveway for off-street parking, including a covered portico section which is an extension of the front porch.
All windows are hurricane impact-rated & approved by the City of Miami Buildings Department. However, I generally prefer not to exchange during hurricane season --- which runs from June through November --- but am willing to consider requests for that time period on an individual basis.

About the location

The house is located in a leafy old neighborhood close to downtown Miami/Brickell area & and boasts a resident population of peacocks, along with the usual homeowners. Visitors should be aware that Spanish --- not English --- is the defacto primary language now spoken in Miami.

The house`s geographic location couldn`t be more central for visitors wanting to explore, as it's equidistant from both City life & Atlantic Ocean beaches. The house is:

(1) a nine block walk to Biscayne Bay & its primary business & nightlife/ restaurant Brickell district;
(2) a five to ten minute drive or bike trip to the beaches of Key Biscayne, or the Coconut Grove historic village.
Both locations offer boat rentals & tours; bicycle, kayak, paddle board, & jet ski rentals/instruction; and biking trails. Key Biscayne & Miami also offer several public golf courses & tennis facilities. Coconut Grove is a charming historic village with many restaurants & shops;
(3) a fifteen minute drive or MetroRail (rapid transit train) to downtown Miami & its art & science museums, opera and ballet & theatre venues, etc.
(4) A local bus stop is 1.5 blocks away & the main station of Miami-Dade County`s rapid transit system is an 8 block walk away;
(4) A 20 minute drive over tbe Intracoastal Waterway bridges to South Miami Beach & its ocean, historic & restaurant attractions;
(5) The housrle does not have a pool, but is a 10 minute drive to a large public swimming pool; & a 20 minute drive to the Venetian Pool in Coral Cables, a scenic, natural, spring-fed pool which is on the National Register of Historic Places & open to the public;
(6) Everglades National Park is about a 50 minute drive away, as is Key Largo, the first in the chain of cays that ends (90 miles from Cuba) in Key West. Key Largo boasts the country's only underwater park & coral reef, with snorkeling available, along with both independent & guided scuba diving, including dives to the Christ of the Deep statue; and
(7) A little closer to home, about a 50 minute drive, the Miccosukee Indian tribe operates airboat rides taking visitors into the swamps to view wildlife, especially the iconic alligators.

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