Property ID: 19472
Property Type: Bed & Breakfast
Property Address:
150 Central AVE
San Mateo, FL 32187
County: Putnam
Price: $819,430
Property Size: 5,000 Sq. Ft.
Lot Size: 87,120 Sq. Ft.
Property Description
Beautiful, Victorian Inn, currently making a profit, 7 conforming bedrooms, 4 reception rooms, secret door, wrap around verandah, 9 bathrooms/half-baths, functional fireplaces, ballroom no 3rd floor (currently not in use). Furnishings available by negotiation. Seller is a REALTOR.
Financial Summary
Income: $80,000 Expenses: $17,200 CAP Rate: 7.66%
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Contact Information
Company: Watson Realty Corp.
Name: Kirk Blank
Email: Click Here to Email
Phone: 386546-4397
Experience the comfort and elegance of the Old South, blended with the customs, styles, and antiques of Victorian England.
Discover North Florida’s hidden secrets from the seventeen rooms of this lovely 1889 ‘Painted Lady’. Fern Court is a Queen Anne style home which offers four generous guestrooms, each with an en suite bathroom. (There is an additional fifth bedroom with a canopy bed, which shares a bathroom. Ideal for an accompanying family member.)Please use the Rooms and Rates link to see the bedrooms and their descriptions.A sweeping verandah wraps around the richly decorated ground floor rooms promising you a gracious and comfortable stay.
Moving inside, the pier mirror style hall tree reflects the central foyer’s presentation of grandeur. A right-hand chaise longue, demi-lune tables and console cabinets, and plaster pillars topped with bronze statuary complete the welcome to Fern Court.
To the left is the Hazel Room, or the Front Parlour. Deep claret colour walls boldly say this is a house with attitude. Leather chairs and sofas, a grandfather clock, and a poster from Madame Tussaud’s Wax Works celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 are just some of the interesting attributes of this first common room. The corner fireplace is just one of four on the ground floor.
To the right of the entryway is the Music Room with its pumped harmonium or reed organ. A central table, draped in lace and decorated with a Parian ware bust sit as comfortably in front of a carved walnut sofa from Sweden as you will, when sitting on its coiled spring seat. Cranberrylamps, a decanter, and glasses link the fireplace overmantel to the table decorations and give us a clue to the colour scheme of the dining room.
With its pink and burgundy walls contrasting with the deep blue velvet chairs, the dining room continues the theme of bold colour and antique furniture. The Aesthetic movement mirror over the fireplace in this room is echoed in the Belle Epoch era black cast iron fireplace insert below. An oak bow front sideboard with bent glass panels competes for attention with a mahogany chiffonier. Silver candlesticks, crystal chandeliers, and lovely, framed mirrors continue the indulgent décor of Fern Court.
Returning to the theme of secrets, adjacent to the Hazel Room and across the foyer from the Dining Room is the Library with its floor to ceiling bookcases and rolling library ladder. Buried amongst the busts and books is a secret door to the stained glass and tiled splendour of the gents’ loo…or should that be the gents’ water-closet? Anyway, it is another of the playful aspects of staying or dining at Fern Court. The fourth and final fireplace is tucked into a corner of this quiet room. Working in front of it at the polished mahogany, leather topped desk provides you with a snug and cosy place to read or write.
This also nicely leads you back to the foyer and the bottom of the staircase to the upstairs bedrooms. Greeting you at the top of the stairs is a marble topped console and gilt mirror and the gilded bust of Henrietta of Louth. It is from this graceful upper hall with its black velvet chairs and original oil paintings that most of the bedrooms are located. Please click on the link to Rooms & Rates to read about the bedrooms at Fern Court and see some of the photos.
Fern Court offers the following to each and every guest:
# Fresh morning coffee or tea delivered to your room.
# Full gourmet breakfast. (Continental breakfasts available for lighter eaters.)
# Many of the antiques, memorabilia, and collectibles are available for purchase.
# Smoke free building. (Smoking is permitted on the verandah.)
# Most credit cards or personal/travellers checks are accepted for reservations.
# Wheelchair accessible.
# Close to St Augustine, Crescent Beach, and the Ocala National Forest.
# Special dinners by appointment.
# Check in: 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.Check out: 11:00 a.m.(Other times available bymutual agreement.)
All of the rooms, here at Fern Court, are named after people who were involved in its development.These were either people who built the structure, lived here, were born here, or were instrumental in putting Fern Court on the map.
The Roosevelt Suite Our ‘honeymoon suite’ is named after the first President Roosevelt and his wife. Wild though his reputation may be as a ‘Rough Rider’, he also had a
wildly romantic streak. While we have no idea if he
stayed in the suite of rooms we’ve named after him, we hope we’ve captured the spirit of adventure and the sense of romance he and his wife embodied.
The bedroom is draped in toile de joie fabric and shuttered with plantation style shutters. The king-size bed has a wicker headboard and an Empire style ‘fainting couch’ serves as it footboard. An antique dressing table accompanies the mirrored corner wardrobe to reflect the calm beauty of the room.
The sitting room of the Roosevelt suite, papered on the walls and ceiling with a different blue toile print, has an antique, Belgian, tiled stove as its focal point.
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Rosewood chairs covered in a Zoffany toile fabric sit companionably beside a loveseat, handmade by the couple who brought Fern Court from the ashes and made it into the gracious bed & breakfast it is today. Prints and original paintings complement this room and the bedroom.
Just off the sitting room is the en suite shower room. This low threshold, walk in shower has dual controls and a set of showerheads at each end. With its old-fashioned ceiling fan and its lazy-susan style, toile papered linen cupboard; the blue-and-white theme of this suite continues in yet another variation. (The gentle ramp up the east-side of the house gives this room easier access for those who prefer not to use stairs.)
The Morgan Room
What is fast becoming one of the most popular rooms at Fern Court, is the Morgan Room.
With its soft lilac walls and lavender accents, its magnificent Art Deco print of Monet’s Wisteria, and its king-size brass bed, there’s no wonder why this room has soared in popularity. Furnished with ’shabby chic’ white furniture and draped tables, the original paintings, pictures, and prints are a standard feature at Fern Court.
The ensuite to the Morgan room continues the lavender theme, however it pumps up the intensity to deep purple in the trim, towels, and floral patterns in the curtain to the walk-in shower. Antique-style lights and a Venetian mirror combine to carry through the gentle Victorian characteristics of the ensuite to the Morgan Room.
The Flagler Room
With its stylish floral striped wallpaper and its original Eastlake style furnishings, the Flagler Room is a bit heavier, almost more masculine, than most of the other rooms.
Facing east, it benefits from receiving the morning sun, and with coffee delivered to you in bed, it’s easy to sit up and watch the day break through the branches of the old oak tree just outside your window. Then again, for those who enjoy a bit of a ‘lie in’, there are room darkening blinds to stave off those early morning rays until you’re ready to enjoy them.
There is a corner shower in the ensuite bathroom of the Flagler Room. Unlike the bedroom, the ensuite is painted a soothing taupe colour and bordered with the wallpaper that matches the bedroom borders. Soft towels, plush carpet, and the quaint prints you’ve come to expect at Fern Court complete the effect.
The Trull Room
Named after one of the families who originally built Fern Court, the Trull Room is a fantasy of blue rose wallpaper, green velvet drapes, and a pink velvet chair and chaise longue.
An old-fashioned hat stand, brimming with hats, and old and new prints and pictures accompany the antique style brass and painted-iron queen-size bed. Oak and mahogany dressers, a brass ceiling fan, and glass and brass bedside tables complete the Trull Room.
Access through a panelled door reveals a footed, Victorian, ball-and-claw bathtub with restored antique taps and a shower over. Lace curtains, a vanity sink, throw rugs, embroidered towels, and a low-level water-closet complete the amenities in this quintessentially English bathroom.
The Bailey Room
Just across the hall from the Trull Room is the Bailey Room, with its canopy bed and black lacquered and distressed furniture. The colour theme of black and gold is carried out with a Victorian doctor’s examining couch, which could double today as a massage table, with its polished black, deep-buttoned, leather surface.
Classic architectural prints and original paintings grace this room, as they do most of the rooms in Fern Court. Unfortunately, the canopy bed in this room is only a standard full-size (or double) and there is no en suite bathroom attached yet…but watch this space. The Bailey Room is ideal for an older child accompanying their parents on a journey.
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