Rio Vista Brazos sits nearly 150 feet above the Brazos River, looking down on historic Chick Bend and out toward Schoolhouse Mountain. The land was once part of the McMurry Ranch, put together in the late 1870s, and it has had only two owners since.
The owners designed the 10,170-square-foot multi-level home with architect David Oswald, and it was completed in 2014. It has four bedrooms plus two bunk rooms, five fireplaces and an elevator, and sleeps up to 22. The kitchen has Poggenpohl cabinetry, Miele appliances and a Wolf range, and the lower patio holds a pool with an electric cover and a hot tub, next to a covered patio with its own fireplace.
About 2,100 feet of Brazos River frontage means fishing, kayaking and floating right from the ranch, with whitetail and duck hunting too. A rainwater system with about 30,000 gallons of storage supplies the house, and a 60’ x 50’ barn with covered overhangs and equipment sheds has its own rainwater supply for livestock.
Listed by Harlan Ray and David Burgher, Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty
