Schoolhouse Turned Successful Marriage ceremony Venue Wants a Purchaser To Say ‘I Do’

For only a few years within the late Twenties, the youngsters of Malabar, FL, attended class of their schoolhouse on Marie Avenue.

Then the Nice Melancholy pressured the varsity to shut. Over the a long time, the previous schoolhouse has served as flats, a woodworking store, a mill, and most not too long ago, a marriage venue.

Now the 8,000-square-foot constructing, zoned each residential and industrial, is available on the market for $1.1 million.

“We fell in love with the constructing, and we thought we might dwell right here,” says the itemizing agent and present proprietor, Joanne Murdoch. She and her husband, Tom, purchased the property in 2012 and had huge plans to renovate it and make it their house.

Nonetheless, the demand for quirky occasion venues intervened.

“All people was popping out with these barn venues, and we thought this constructing would make an amazing marriage ceremony venue. So that is the path we went into for a variety of years,” Murdoch says.

It took just a few years to renovate the property to make it prepared for glad {couples}. The schoolhouse on the Sunshine State’s Atlantic Coast was in sore want of up to date infrastructure.

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“It was industrial-looking once we received it,” Murdoch explains. “We needed to redo all {the electrical}, the plumbing, the heating, the septic, all the protection stuff all through, the landscaping, the lighting. It was a whole restoration.”

Rechristened because the Banyan Property, because of the banyan tree on the grounds, the venue has held weddings and different occasions for the previous few years.

The principle stage has a big pavilion room and a smaller corridor—every with new home windows and classic chandeliers. There are additionally a number of bogs all through the venue area.

Upstairs, the loft space offers a extra intimate setting for smaller gatherings. This was the area the place the Murdochs initially deliberate to dwell.

It has a full toilet and loads of room to configure and carve out bedrooms and different dwelling areas.

Any individual coming in to make use of the constructing as a residence should tweak it a bit, Murdoch says. However with the house’s main techniques in place, the work that is left would require a watch for design.

Proper now, the one kitchen within the area is designed for industrial prep, so anybody eager to dwell within the constructing full-time will wish to add a cooking area.

“We at all times noticed the upstairs half being the loft, and the opposite two areas may very well be any type of enterprise you needed,” Murdoch says.

Earlier than deciding to show the property into a marriage venue, she and her husband imagined a enterprise making cheese in a part of the area and organising a dance studio in the remaining.

The constructing sits on virtually 2.5 acres and abuts 350 acres of environmentally preserved land that may by no means be developed.

Discovering a property with this type of zoning, nice location, and interesting backstory is a giant win.

Murdoch says she imagines the proper purchaser as “someone who loves historic buildings, who can respect a fantastic and enormous piece of property.”

The property is co-listed with JJ Tippins at Pastermack Actual Property.

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