WOW House: Enjoy Spacious Rooms, Balconies With Water Views In New London

NEW LONDON, CT - The Frederic Mercer Estate has been restored and updated to perfection. Nestled in one of New London's historic yet intimate neighborhoods, this classic stucco and tiled roof home is sure to delight.

• Address: 33 Hillside Rd, New London, Connecticut
• Price: $1,050,000
• Square Feet: 5300
• Bedrooms: 5
• Bathrooms: 4 Full and 1 Half Baths
• Built: 1925

Features:

This home features spacious rooms for living and entertaining, hardwood floors, chef's kitchen and balconies with water views. The bedroom suites have updated baths, and a new guest wing can serve as another master suite.

The lush secluded grounds with fruit trees, arbors and vegetable gardens are a gardeners haven. A finished lower level adds 900 square feet of living and entertaining space, and features a stunning bar imported from France.

This well-built home is timeless and lends itself to modern and gracious living. New London is a historic whaling city that today enjoys abundant social and cultural resources.

Uniquely poised between New York and Boston, this home is minutes from historic Mystic Seaport, fabulous shoreline beaches, charter fishing and world class entertainment and fine dining at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos.

The wineries, shops antiques and Ocean Beach Park provide year round activities. Enjoy impressionist paintings at the Florence Griswold Museum (known as the home of American Impressionism) or history at area museums.

American Author Eugene O'Neill spent summers in New London which inspired many of his plays. New London enjoys train service to Boston and New York City and ferry service to Long Island, and is 40 minutes to a major airport.

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