EVERGREEN LAKESHORE PRESERVE
A generational opportunity to acquire three magnificent acres of Pacific Northwest woodland on Medina’s celebrated Gold Coast, one of the most affluent enclaves in the country. Legacy estate of three lots extending from Lake Washington to Evergreen Point Road.
2425 Evergreen Point Road, Medina, WA
Legacy estate of three lots extending from Lake Washington to Evergreen Point Road comprises 215 feet of west-facing waterfront with a 70-foot dock for deep-water moorage; a 1938 5800 SF three-story Colonial Revival main residence; and various smaller structures. The gracious main residence, with greenhouse and view deck, is sited on a dramatic bluff with panoramic views of the Emerald City, dynamic boat traffic, vivid sunsets, serene Olympic Mountains.
Offered for $13,500,000
Generational opportunity to acquire three magnificent acres of Pacific Northwest woodland on Medina’s celebrated Gold Coast, one of the most affluent enclaves in the country. Legacy estate of three lots extending from Lake Washington to Evergreen Point Road comprises 215 feet of west-facing waterfront with a 70-foot dock for deep-water moorage; a 1938 5800 SF three-story Colonial Revival main residence; and various smaller structures. The gracious main residence, with greenhouse and view deck, is sited on a dramatic bluff with panoramic views of the Emerald City, dynamic boat traffic, vivid sunsets, serene Olympic Mountains.
A forward-thinking conservation easement preserves the estate as a scenic open space within the city, protecting the splendid but fragile habitats of bald eagles and other species, and creating unimaginable privacy and peace. Uphold the environmental legacy and pass down an enduring piece of the wilderness – just a couple of miles from the energy and excitement of downtown Bellevue’s tech hub, minutes from the region’s finest restaurants and shopping, next door to the fabled mansions of founders and magnates, including the chiefs of Amazon, Microsoft, and Costco. Erect your dream compound: the conservation easement provides for the renovation and replacement of the existing dwelling structures, in a style of your choosing, within their original footprint and adhering to their original purpose; city zoning allows for vertical expansion of dwelling volumes.
Extensive documentation accompanies this singular offering – an architect-directed feasibility study, a geotech report, a tree study, the grant deed of conservation easement. Seller makes no assurances about the viability of the suggested construction options; buyers are urged to make their own inquiries and investigations.
3.07 wooded acres on Medina’s ultra-affluent Gold CoastLot A (Tract C in the site plan) fronting picturesque Evergreen Point Road: 27700 SF
Lot B (Tract B in the site plan) containing the main residence and other dwelling structures: 57100 SF
Lot C (Tract A in the site plan) sloping to prime waterfront: 48787 SF
Generous 215 ft Lake Washington shorefront
70 linear ft, 499 SF newer dock for mooring your yachts
Existing 5809 SF Colonial Revival main residence
Existing garage and five other structures; total including main residence 7913 SF
Sweeping 180-degree westerly views
Conservation easement preserves peaceful, scenic open space
Protection for native habitats of bald eagles, ospreys and other wildlife
Convenient proximity to tech workplaces and world-class dining and shopping in prosperous Bellevue
Provision for renovation and replacement of dwelling structures
Extensive documentation provided
DISTINGUISHED LINEAGES
This once-in-a-generation property comes replete with rich stories of past generations, spanning the United States from Maine to California, Georgia to Alaska, Massachusetts to Washington.
New England transplants Lucius Horatio (“Loosh”) Biglow Jr (1925-2015) and Nancy Wheatland Biglow (1927-2023) purchased the property in 1957. Lucius Biglow Jr was the son of Lucius Horatio (“Ray”) Biglow III (1885-1961), a legendary Yale football player and member of the influential Skull and Bones secret society, who coached the Yale Bulldogs in 1908. Lawyer, philanthropist, a parishioner of St Thomas, and member of the Medina City Council, Lucius Biglow Jr was a lifelong accapella singer. He belonged to the Yale Glee Club and the world-famous Whiffenpoofs and continued to perform in Whiffenpoofs reunions.
His wife, Nancy Wheatland Biglow, the daughter of a Harvard physics professor who helped invent radar, was an outdoors enthusiast, equestrienne and fervent animal lover (among many other things). Her love of the land was rooted in the ancestral Wheatland property, Pingree Farm, in idyllic Topsfield, MA, 25 miles north of Boston. Two beloved oak trees from Topsfield still stand at Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve, where Nancy Biglow transplanted them. Her devotion to conservationist causes such as The Snow Leopard Trust and World Wildlife Federation culminated in the Biglows’ 1997 grant of a conservation easement on their own property, a sanctuary for bald eagles, ospreys, owls, wood ducks, otters, deer, raccoons, mergansers, and other species – and thus Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve was born. In 2001 the Wheatland family’s timberlands in Maine became the Pingree Forest Partnership, an astounding 762000-acre easement, larger than the state of Rhode Island, that conserves some of Maine’s most spectacular natural resources, including the Allagash Lakes, 2000 miles of riverfront, and the nesting grounds of peregrine falcons.
When you purchase Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve, you will link yourself to a chain of benevolent stewardship of the land initiated and fostered by these visionary conservationists.
Storied and documented property
Long history of environmental philanthropy
Distinguished New England heritage
Association with Sierra Club
SIGN A PACT WITH NATURE
Value(s) Proposition. Diversify your portfolio at a discount, while investing in accordance with your personal ethic. The benefits of the conservation easement extend to a lowered real property assessment, reflecting the use of the property for conservation, and an advantageously lower property tax.
Reap further benefits
Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve is listed at a price that rewards the buyer for their willingness to embrace the conservation easement.
A Green Promise
Revel in the priceless peace and privacy of your verdant acreage, sheltered from prying eyes. The wisdom of the conservation easement prevents subdivision of Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve, thus granting you the ultimate luxuries, space and privacy, both increasingly rare and more desirable where development and density have become the necessary norm. Admire the green swath of your own wildlife sanctuary, visible and recognizable from the seaplanes that skim Lake Washington and the historic and modern yachts that glide by. Take pride in the restful comfort the arboretum-like woodland offers to passers-by, in contrast with the crowded surrounding lakefront.
Forterra, Custodian of the Wilderness
Founded (as the Seattle King County Land Trust) in 1989 to address climate change, Forterra takes an innovative, collaborative approach to land conservation, with the guiding vision of enabling people and nature to thrive together. The far-sighted nonprofit actively stewards more than 17000 acres of diverse landscapes in 12 counties across central and western Washington, managing about 50 fee-owned properties and nearly 100 conservation easements, each with its own unique conservation values, opportunities and challenges. As the grantee of the Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve conservation easement, Forterra inspects the property annually to ensure compliance with the terms of the grant and entertains and approves requests for alterations to the property.
Create Your Dream Compound
Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve’s conservation easement exists to protect and preserve fragile ecosystems. As such, the landscape may be altered for necessary upkeep, installation of utilities, and maintenance of the view corridor. With respect to alteration of the existing dwelling structures, the easement offers considerable latitude, allowing for the renovation and/or replacement of each structure, provided the renewed or new construction occupies the footprint and follows the function and character of the original structure. City zoning requires that the proposed construction remain within the setback limits defined by the Medina Municipal Code. The easement allows all styles of new construction: indulge your aesthetic, whether you prefer a baronial English country manor, a turreted chateau, or a glittering, many-windowed modernist masterpiece. Or you may choose to update and upgrade the quietly gracious main residence. The accompanying feasibility study by architectural firm Build LLC details buildable volume that could be added to each structure, taking advantage of bonus height allowances permitted by the Medina Municipal Code, while upholding the easement’s original footprint requirement. Seller makes no assurances about the findings of the commissioned feasibility study or any other material in the accompanying documentation. Buyer is advised to undertake their own inquiries with Forterra and the City of Medina.
Flora includes:
apple, bigleaf maple, cherry (bitter, flowering), coast redwood, common hawthorn, fir (Douglas, grand), English holly, English yew, giant sequoia, grand fir, laurel (California, Portuguese cherry), Lombardy poplar, Pacific willow, red alder, red oak, saucer magnolia, Scot’s pine, spruce (Norway, Sitka), silver birch, Western hemlock.
Fauna includes:
bald eagles, band-tailed pigeons, blacktail deer, bobcats, california quail, cedar waxwings, coyotes, hawks (red tail, cooper's, sharpshinned), hooded mergansers, mandarin ducks, northern pintails, otters, ospreys, owls (barred, great horned), thrushes, weasels, woodpeckers (pileated, northern flicker, downy, hairy, sap suckers), wood ducks.
LAKE WASHINGTON: GATEWAY TO ADVENTURE
Smoothly and speedily access your home from its private beach and dock via an efficient hillside tram.
Equipped by Washington-based Accumar Cable & Track Lift Systems, the low-maintenance, state-of-the art track lift, designed to accommodate people of all abilities and withstand Northwest weather conditions, whisks you to the main residence from your expansive dock. Or get your steps in and take the recently installed staircase, solidly engineered into the hillside.
Swimming, rowing, sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, paddle-boarding, or fishing – frolic as you choose in the 33-square-mile playground that is Lake Washington. Follow in the wake of pioneering predecessors who have explored these waters for profit or pleasure, from Native Coast Salish peoples whose ancestors fished for salmon since time immemorial, to the more recent settlers who devised routes to float logs down the lake, to contemporary pleasure craft that navigate the shallows and depths of this picturesque body of water and continue through the Montlake Cut to Lake Union, historic seat of industry, and onward through the Ship Canal to Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. Whether you are planning a lunch date or an island-hopping expedition, the lake is your oyster.
Hiram M Chittenden Locks 6 nautical miles
Alki Beach 8.8 nautical miles
Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island 12.8 nautical miles
Blake Island Marine State Park 14.8 nautical miles
Point Defiance State Park 21.3 nautical miles
Deception Pass State Park, Whidbey Island 53.8 nautical miles
Victoria, BC 66.8 nautical miles
Friday Harbor, San Juan Island 68.8 nautical miles
BELLEVUE:
CITY OF THE FUTURE
A five-minute drive and 15-minute bike ride from Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve, the City of Bellevue has rapidly evolved to become an ambitious main character in the Puget Sound region’s thriving economy.
A five-minute drive and 15-minute bike ride from Evergreen Lakeshore Preserve, the City of Bellevue has rapidly evolved to become an ambitious main character in the Puget Sound region’s thriving economy, which registered the highest GDP increase in the nation, 6.2% between 2022 and 2023.
Bellevue’s highly educated workforce from all over the world (according to data collected by the US Census from 2019 to 2023, 71.4% of residents over 25 had a bachelor’s degree or higher and 42.1% of residents were born outside the US), low crime rate, renowned public education, and business-friendly government contribute to its appeal for tech giants and industry start-ups alike. Amazon alone employs 12000 workers in downtown Bellevue, a figure that is expected to swell to 25000 this year. Meta’s offices in Bellevue’s Spring District serve as its largest engineering hub outside its Menlo Park, CA headquarters. Telecom colossus T-Mobile, Chinese behemoths Ali Baba and Tik-Tok, and various cloud computing and artificial intelligence start-ups jostle for well-equipped Bellevue office space; luxury retail and dining round out the vibrant cityscape. Prudent investment in public transportation will connect Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond to downtown Seattle via Line 2 of the rapid mass transit system Link Light Rail. A tableau of progress – unfolding against the breathtaking backdrop of one of the most beautiful geographies on earth.
Bellevue Downtown Park 2.9 miles
Meydenbauer Center 3.3 miles
Bellevue High School 3.4 miles
The Shops at the Bravern 3.5 miles
SeaTac Airport 21.4 miles
Payne Field 24.4 miles
The Summit at Snoqualmie 49.7 miles
Crystal Mountain Resort 79.2 miles
Wells Medina Nursery 0.5 miles
Overlake Golf and Country Club 0.8 miles
St Thomas School 1.2 miles
Medina Elementary School 1.4 miles
Chinook Middle School 1.8 miles
Amazon Bellevue 2.7 miles
Old Bellevue 2.7 miles
Bellevue Square 2.8 miles
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Edward Krigsman
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Rick Franz
Listing Agent
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Rob Graham
Listing Agent
(206) 321-6349
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