*Oprah Winfrey has expanded her nest into the Pacific Northwest.
According to multiple reports, the TV mogul just paid $8.275 million for a secluded compound on Washington State’s Orcas Island, one of the four largest islands that comprise the San Juan Islands archipelago between Seattle and Vancouver.
Dubbed the Madroneagle Estate by its previous owner, the private property spans two waterfront parcels that together measure around 43 acres with approximately 3,000-feet of unspoiled, west-facing shoreline overlooking the island’s East Sound.
The property, accessible only by ferry, includes a main house, guest house, a gazebo with glass walls, a barn and workshop, a sauna and a craft shed. The main house is three stories with four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
As was noted in The San Juan Islander, and the celebrity real estate blog Velvet Ropes, the secluded spread was acquired in two contiguous transactions via two different corporate entities that both link back to the Oprah Winfrey Network offices in West Hollywood.
Sources tell TMZ that Oprah never visited the property in person before closing on the deal.
Below, more details about Oprah’s newest property, via Variety:
Built in 2007 with four bedrooms and three full and two half bathrooms in 7,303-square-feet, the stone-accented three-story main residence features a copper and slate roof on the exterior and rustic-luxe cabin-like interior finishes that include rare reclaimed woods, hand-forged iron work and wood floorboards reclaimed from the old Sears’ building in Chicago.
A cavernous living space under a soaring ceiling with muscular, exposed ceiling structure contains a lounge area with stone-faced fireplace, a dining area and a colossal kitchen with skylights, huge center island and built-in pizza oven.
There’s also a cozy library nook lined in floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, a gigantic family/games room on the upper floor under a vaulted exposed wood ceiling and, down on the lower level, an extensive home office complex along with a wine cellar and tasting room.
The thickly wooded enclave provides plenty of room for Winfrey’s traveling entourage in the so-called “Gallery House,” a 2,948-square-foot, 1980s contemporary guesthouse with four bedrooms and three bathrooms set on a high cliff above a private stretch of beach. Near the main house there’s a tea house under a canopy of trees overlooking the water and a bit more of a distance away, a huge barn-like structure houses a woodworking studio on the upper floor and a gym and yoga studio on the lower level. According to marketing materials, there’s also a secluded sauna, an Asian garden, private hiking trails, a pond and stream and, of course, more than half of a mile of picturesquely rugged, pebble-stone beach.
For even MORE of this article and mind blowing photos, check out the site/blog that broke the story, Velvet Ropes.
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