**Motivated Sellers**
Gorgeous 12+ Acre Joshua Creek Estate 
DeSoto County
3410 County Road 760 Arcadia, FL 34266


Total Acres: 12.64 

Price Adjustment: $725,000

Beauty and privacy abound in this 12.64 acre estate set among oak hammocks, a gently flowing creek and manicured pastures.

 As you enter through the private gate down the paved drive you are welcomed to this custom built 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath brick home.  With over 2,700 heated sq. ft., this meticulously maintained home features soaring ceilings, an open floor plan, lots of natural light, and a spacious screened back patio perfect for relaxing & enjoying the natural Florida habitat. The kitchen is complete with breakfast bar, dining area, dual dishwashers, updated appliances & opens to the formal dining room & family room ideal for entertaining. 

Downstairs is complete with a Guest Room/Office lined with windows and a large master bedroom featuring fireplace and an en-suite bathroom with soaking tub & separate tiled shower.

 Upstairs a catwalk, overlooking the family room, leads you to two additional guest bedrooms & a guest bathroom.

 Additionally, there is an attached 2 car garage, screened gazebo, a detached 30X52 garage-for your RV/boat, multiple RV hookups, as well as a huge workshop. Workshop is outfitted with kitchen & office area, ideal for home business. 

Much of the acreage is cleared pasture land with a pond & lends itself to cattle and horses. 

Property is within 5 miles from Publix, shopping, and downtown Arcadia. 

Come home to privacy and peacefulness on this beautiful, natural property nestled along Joshua Creek!


















A Look Into the Past

Rosin Arcade, 1926, Arcadia

Florida is dotted with remarkable architecture in unexpected places.
One example is the Rosin Arcade in Arcadia, 50 miles east of Sarasota in DeSoto County. 
The ornate building, among the biggest in downtown, was constructed as the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s was winding down. Despite the predictable deterioration brought on by 92 years of use, a series of owners have adaptively reused and restored the structure, and it survives as a gem of the city's National Register Historic District.
The building has 21 apartments upstairs, and, on the ground floor, antique stores, two restaurants and Rattler's Old West Saloon. At the popular Mary Margaret's Tea & Biscuit, the owners dress in formal British attire with top hats. A 1930 Ford Model A is parked outside. Around the corner, diners can sit in the shady arcade outside Angela's Café Italiano.
The Rosin Arcade has arched windows on the third floor, gothic spires, decorative banding on the roof parapet and a pink-and-white color scheme, giving it a "Cracker Eclectic" appearance.
The 30,000-square-foot building was constructed by contractor Ralph Cannon for client Simon Rosin for $112,354, according to a 1926 newspaper article quoted in a recent history of the building by Carol Mahler. Rosin moved to Arcadia in 1905, the same year a Thanksgiving Day fire destroyed most of the downtown. As a result, many subsequent buildings were constructed with rusticated concrete block.
Rosin opened a "Boston Store" in the building and leased half of it to the Post Office. He retired in 1939, and his employee C.E. Adams opened a men's store in the space, Mahler writes. The arcade changed hands in 1947 when Dr. Louis W. Koch, a pharmacist in Arcadia from 1905 to 1965, opened a drugstore there.
Most of the building, in poor condition, was closed in 1976 before Len and Elida Hazen bought it in 1989 and restored it.

Source:   Herald Tribune  
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Sincerely,
Walt Bethel
RE/MAX Harbor Realty
1133 Bal Harbor Blvd, Suite 1129
Punta Gorda, FL 33950

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