The Quay Home

An impressive estate rich with history, lovingly and meticulously restored to a more modernized, move-in ready home, is available for sale for the first time in over 15 years. Its unique location in the historic St. Lucie Village provides a private, riverfront, old-Florida living experience like no other. With sprawling, wide-water views of the St Lucie River from your wraparound porches and a short boat ride from your private dock to the Ft Pierce Inlet, it is the perfect spot for boating, world class fishing, and watching sunrises over the water.
The town of St Lucie Village, nestled along the Indian River in Northern St Lucie County, was incorporated in 1961 and has its own Mayor, Alderman, Marshall, and Town Clerk. This particular home is southern plantation-style and was built by influential Pennsylvania Senator Matthew Quay for his son in 1895. It features ornate columns and wraparound porches on nearly an acre and a half of lushly landscaped, tropical grounds along the riverfront.
The current homeowners completed an extensive restoration on the home over their years of ownership and have recently given the home life once again with new chandeliers, LED lighting, bathroom fixtures, screened porches, outdoor fans and lights, fresh paint inside and out, and-best of all- 100+ year old Dade County Hart Pine floors polished to better-than-original shine. The estate is over 5,000 square feet of exceptional living space on three-stories with five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms.
Although the home has been modernized with a complete replacement of all electrical, plumbing, windows, air conditioning systems, $30,000 propane generator, and much more, the owners still made it a priority to keep the home’s original history and charm with features no longer built into contemporary homes. You can still find original bead board detailing, original brick work in the kitchen, the original wood staircase, all original mantels on the four fireplaces--some with original tilework, and original hardware and doors throughout. When you’re standing in the foyer, take a look up three stories and you’ll see the sky hook in the ceiling from where they used to lift luggage upstairs. It’s these details that have kept the home so distinctly one-of-a-kind and absolutely irreplaceable.
The property also features a detached 3-car garage, 2 freshly screened patios, a heated swimming pool, and a poolside gazebo built by the Pennsylvania Dutch, fully screened and with electrical. There are functional aluminum shutters on the first and second floor windows for hurricane protection as well as accordion shutters on doors/windows of the first and third floors and 3M hurricane impact glass front and master balcony doors.
A rare opportunity for the lover of history and architecture—this estate is ready for new owners to carry on its legacy.