Newly Built Lake Oconee Estate With 19th-Century Hardwood Floors Hits the Market for $8,495,000

Designed by architect Tim Adams, the 9,828-square-foot Reynolds Lake Oconee residence pairs historic wood and limestone mantels with a distinctly modern lake lifestyle, including a pool, oversized spa and lifts for a boat and three Jet Skis.

The first architectural move at 1030 Turkey Trot happens before anyone reaches the front door. From the driveway, the house establishes a sightline that runs through the residence toward Lake Oconee, making the water part of the arrival rather than something revealed only after stepping inside.

What comes next is an unusual exercise in mixing periods. The Greensboro, Georgia, house was completed in 2022, but hardwood flooring dating to the late 1800s brings more than a century of age into its interiors. Limestone fireplace mantels, inset cabinetry and European-inspired detailing reinforce that sense of history without turning the property into a reproduction of an old house.

The five-bedroom residence, designed by architect Tim Adams, spans approximately 9,828 square feet on 1.66 acres within Reynolds Lake Oconee. It came to market Sept. 25 for $8,495,000, or about $864 per square foot.

For a house barely four years old, the contrast is central to its identity: contemporary lakefront living built around materials chosen to look and feel as though they have already lived another life.

A New House That Doesn’t Try to Feel New

New luxury construction often advertises its newness. This house takes almost the opposite approach.

The late-19th-century hardwood floors introduce irregularity and patina that would be difficult to reproduce convincingly with newly manufactured material. Paired with limestone fireplace mantels and detailed ceilings, they give the interiors a visual history that predates the structure itself.

Oversized casement windows provide the counterpoint. Rather than allowing the European influence to produce dark or inward-looking rooms, large expanses of glass frame Lake Oconee and bring natural light deep into the house.

That relationship between older materials and contemporary openness appears throughout the residence. Custom inset cabinetry adds another traditional element, but the rooms remain oriented toward views, outdoor access and the informal patterns of a modern lake house.

The result is less about recreating a particular historical style than using genuinely old material to give a newly constructed house a sense of permanence.

Lake Oconee Is Visible From the Arrival

Architect Tim Adams designed the residence around its relationship with the water, beginning with the view through the house from the approach.

That axis establishes Lake Oconee as an architectural feature in its own right. Once inside, the oversized windows continue framing the water, while porches and verandas extend the living spaces outward on multiple levels.

Some of those outdoor areas incorporate fireplaces, allowing them to function beyond the warmest months. Their positioning also takes advantage of sunset views across the lake.

This is where the European-inspired architecture begins to behave more like a contemporary Southern lake house. Instead of treating the veranda as a decorative appendage, the design uses outdoor rooms as part of the property’s everyday circulation and entertaining program.

The 1.66-acre site is landscaped around the same principle. House, terraces, pool and waterfront are arranged as successive layers rather than isolated destinations.

The Kitchen Keeps the Technology Contemporary

The old materials don’t extend to the working components of the house.

The kitchen is equipped with Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, combining contemporary performance with the more traditional custom cabinetry surrounding them. Morning and wet bars create secondary preparation and beverage stations elsewhere in the residence.

Those smaller service spaces can matter in a house approaching 10,000 square feet. A morning bar reduces the need to return to the main kitchen for coffee or breakfast, while a wet bar can support entertaining without turning the kitchen itself into the only service point.

Technology is similarly integrated throughout the property. A Control4 system allows various home functions to be managed by phone, while Sonos distributes audio across both interior and exterior spaces.

An elevator has not yet been installed, but an elevator shaft is already in place. That distinction is important: the house is prepared for a future elevator rather than currently offering one.

The Backyard Functions as a Private Lake Resort

Beyond the verandas, the landscape shifts decisively toward recreation.

A swimming pool and oversized spa form the center of the backyard, surrounded by European pavers and landscaped grounds. Their placement creates a resort-like environment between the residence and Lake Oconee rather than separating the pool from the waterfront experience.

Then the property reaches the lake itself.

A private boat lift provides storage and direct access for a boat, while three separate Jet Ski lifts accommodate additional watercraft. For a household that spends much of the summer on the water, the configuration eliminates much of the daily launching, retrieving and off-site storage associated with boating.

The outdoor spaces also allow activity to be distributed across the property. Guests can gather around the pool and spa, on the verandas, near a fireplace or at the waterfront rather than concentrating around a single terrace.

That flexibility is one of the benefits of combining 1.66 acres with nearly 10,000 square feet of interior space: the estate can accommodate large gatherings without requiring every guest to occupy the same environment.

Readers can explore the complete photography, current availability and additional property details through the Zillow listing here.

Reynolds Lake Oconee Adds Another Layer to the Lifestyle

The estate sits within Reynolds Lake Oconee, putting its private waterfront amenities inside a larger resort and golf environment.

For this particular property, however, the lake is not simply a community amenity. The private boat and Jet Ski lifts make the waterfront directly functional from the backyard, while the architecture itself was designed around views of the water.

A golf membership at Reynolds Lake Oconee is available separately, according to the listing. It should therefore not be interpreted as automatically included in the $8,495,000 purchase price.

That distinction matters for prospective buyers comparing properties within resort communities. The real estate and the available club membership are related parts of the lifestyle but separate components of the transaction.

The listing also discloses that the selling agent is related to the seller, another detail prospective buyers should be aware of in evaluating the representation surrounding the transaction.

The Price History Needs More Context Than the Numbers Suggest

The property’s recorded transaction history produces an eye-catching percentage that, by itself, tells very little about the current house.

Public records show a $810,000 transaction in September 2020, followed by a $1,678,300 sale in October 2022. The current residence is identified as having been built in 2022.

That timing makes the earlier transactions problematic as direct comparisons with today’s completed 9,828-square-foot residence. The 2020 sale predates construction, while the October 2022 transaction occurred during the same year the current house was completed.

The $8,495,000 asking price is $6,816,700 above the October 2022 transaction, a nominal difference of approximately 406.2%. But without documentation showing exactly what existed on the property at the time of that sale—whether the house was complete, partially complete, subject to a construction-related transaction or involved other circumstances—it would be misleading to call that 406.2% appreciation.

The older listing history reinforces the issue. Asking prices of $895,000 appeared as early as 2011 and 2012, nearly a decade before the current residence was built. Those figures clearly don’t represent prior asking prices for the house now standing at the property.

At $8,495,000 and 9,828 square feet, the current offering equates to approximately $864 per square foot. Unlike the historical percentage comparisons, that calculation at least describes the house being offered today, though it doesn’t separately account for the 1.66-acre waterfront site, pool, spa, landscaping and private watercraft infrastructure.

Its Oldest Materials Are Older Than the House by More Than a Century

The most compelling aspect of 1030 Turkey Trot isn’t any single resort amenity.

A swimming pool can be added. Boat lifts can be replaced. Smart-home systems will eventually be upgraded, and even a future elevator has already been anticipated in the structure.

The 19th-century hardwood tells a different story.

In a residence completed in 2022, flooring dating to the late 1800s creates an intentional contradiction: some of the surfaces underfoot existed generations before the house around them. Together with limestone mantels and European-inspired detailing, those materials give a four-year-old residence something new construction usually has to wait decades to acquire—visible age.

Tim Adams’s architecture then prevents that historical vocabulary from overwhelming the reason for being here in the first place. The windows, verandas, pool and carefully established sightlines continually return attention to Lake Oconee.

At $8,495,000, the house is therefore selling two kinds of experience at once: the convenience and technology of a recently completed luxury residence and the material character of a home that, in selected places, feels considerably older than its birth certificate.

Property Overview

1030 Turkey Trot in Greensboro, Georgia, is offered at $8,495,000. Completed in 2022, the approximately 9,828-square-foot residence has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms and occupies 1.66 acres within Reynolds Lake Oconee.

Designed by architect Tim Adams, the European-inspired house incorporates historic hardwood floors dating to the late 1800s, limestone fireplace mantels, oversized casement windows, custom inset cabinetry and detailed ceilings. The kitchen features Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, complemented by morning and wet bars.

Porches and verandas extend from multiple levels toward Lake Oconee. The landscaped grounds include a swimming pool, oversized spa and European pavers, while the waterfront has a private boat lift and three Jet Ski lifts.

Control4 smart-home technology and Sonos audio serve indoor and outdoor spaces. An elevator shaft has been constructed for a potential future elevator, though an elevator is not currently represented as installed. A Reynolds Lake Oconee golf membership is available separately.

Listing Representation

Laura Jones and Gisele Padula of Lake Homes Realty represent 1030 Turkey Trot.

The listing emphasizes the house’s combination of “architectural character, resort-style amenities, and an enviable waterfront lifestyle,” with its lake-oriented architecture and use of historic materials distinguishing it from more conventional recent construction.

Laura Jones
Lake Homes Realty
770-616-1557

Gisele Padula
Lake Homes Realty
404-808-2306