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At her boutique at the Island Shoppes Plaza, Wanda Medeiros has heard plenty of speculation about the towering concrete mass visible from her doorway.
“Everybody’s so interested to see who’s the owner, to see if it’s a hotel or a theater. Everybody’s so confused because it’s so big,” Medeiros said. “It’s like a castle.”
It’s not a celebrity, though, who’s king of the castle, but Hutchinson Island resident Robert Eustace.
Eustace, who more than 20 years ago founded a now-thriving computer software company, is building one of the biggest houses in Martin County at 4545 SE Ocean Blvd., just north of the Jensen Beach Causeway.
The house covers 50,000 square feet and boasts turrets and domes.
Eustace, 60, won’t reveal any details, except to say during a recent phone interview that he would live in the house “one day.”
He referred questions to Bill Glenck, his superintendent at the site.
“It’s a basic four-bedroom house,” Glenck said casually from his trailer office. “With 10 bathrooms and 25 rooms.”
That’s just the beginning.
WHAT’S INSIDE
The house is 260 feet long, peaks at 66 feet high and was built to withstand hurricane winds up to 200 mph.
On the lowest level is a garage for about a dozen cars, plenty of room for the five Rolls-Royces registered in Eustace’s name.
The second level includes an octagon-shaped living room with tall windows facing the ocean, a dining room and a kitchen with a wine room, a game room with a bar, music room, media room, a gym and a lap pool 16 feet long, a hexagon-shaped library with a fireplace and a beachfront office with a domed ceiling.
A circular foyer has ceilings 40 feet high, and two curved stairways lead to the third floor.
That floor is reserved for Eustace and his wife, Elsa.
The master suite includes a bathroom with his-and-hers shower stalls, a sewing room, a bedroom with a fireplace and a walk-in closet as big as a master bedroom: it’s 17-by-23 feet.
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The floor also includes a guest “apartment”: three rooms, three bathrooms and separate kitchen and laundry facilities.
This guest area could be for family, or perhaps the business executives Eustace sometimes invites to Stuart.
“He’s usually pretty active with that stuff,” Glenck said.
The rooftop level includes an elevator-accessible bar and an observation deck.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
These days the screech of circular saws competes with the thundering waves of the ocean, for the Eustace mansion still is very much a construction site.
A maze of scaffolding rises from the airy foyer.
The only thing decorating the ceilings is yellow, puffy insulation sprayed onto steel beams.
And the only light is the sunshine stumbling into the cavernous insides of the gray concrete walls.
Construction cost is estimated at $8 million, according to Martin County building records. Construction began in November 2002 and it’s not likely to be finished before 2007.
That’s because everything in the house has been specially made, explained general contractor David Souza of Libra Development.
“Everything’s custom. There’s nothing off the shelf.”
And when it’s all finished, some may consider it a masterpiece.
The interior is to have frescoes and gilding. The outside will be a blend of European architectural styles.
“It’s a little of this, a little of that,” Glenck said, as if he were talking about a cooking recipe. “It’s gothic, it’s French, it’s Italian.”
But nothing about this house is “little.”
For one thing, it has 19,370 square feet of living space. According to the Martin County Property Appraiser’s Office, only one other house in the county has more living space: a 20,235-square-foot mansion on Jupiter Island.
Despite its size, Glenck said, Eustace’s mansion is being built for only Eustace and his wife.
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COMPUTER SOFTWARE
Eustace earned much of his money after founding Applied Systems Inc. in University Park, Ill., south of Chicago.
“We came along in 1980 to fill a niche that went virtually unnoticed,” Eustace told the Chicago Tribune in 1987.
“We are a software supplier to large microcomputer networks for independent property-casualty insurance agents. We play ball with the big boys. We have had a lot of luck and know-how in getting at our market.”
Last year Eustace sold Applied Systems and now owns Insuresoft, once a division of Applied Systems, which sells computer programs to property and casualty insurance carriers.
“There is a tremendous opportunity to provide insurance carriers with inexpensive, predictable and valuable technology-based solutions,” Eustace said in a company news release.
For all of Eustace’s achievements, Alberto Aiello still doesn’t know who his future neighbor is.
But he is impressed with his house.
“At first I thought it was a condo, but people say it’s a house,” said the owner of Alberto’s Italian Restaurant. “I don’t know, but it’s beautiful.”
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THE MANSION
The mansion at a glance:
Total square feet: More than 50,000.
Estimated construction cost: $8 million.
Construction timetable: Work began in 2002; completion in 2007.
Details: Four fireplaces; two elevators; 32 pairs of French doors on the ocean side; 2,000 steel-reinforced precast concrete wall pieces, 12-car garage, 40-foot-high ceilings. Total square feet: More than 50,000.
Estimated construction cost: $8 million.
Construction timetable: Work began in 2002; completion in 2007.
Selected details: Four fireplaces; two elevators; 32 pairs of French doors on the ocean side; 2,000 steel-reinforced precast concrete wall pieces, 12-car garage, 40-foot-high ceilings.
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