This $40 Million Waterfront Estate Is the Most Expensive Listing in Massachusetts

Between 1790 and 1830, the historic seaside town of Duxbury, Mass., just 35 miles southeast of Boston, established itself as one of the largest and most famous shipbuilding centers of the New World. Throughout the maritime town, 19th-century homes built for ship captains still stand today overlooking Cape Cod Bay. One of those grand old homes presides over 25 park-like acres and, with its $40 million price tag, is currently the Bay State’s most expensive home on the market.

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Known as Goose Point Compound , the sprawling estate features several standalone structures across its waterfront grounds. An eye-catching main house anchors the property, which also includes a large guesthouse, a dock-side bungalow, a carriage house, a greenhouse, and an antique residence known as the Alexander Standish House.

There are a total of six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, plus two half-baths spread across 14,000 square feet of living space. Even more impressive, Goose Point Compound lays claim to a whopping 1,060 square feet of waterfront. Joanna Rizzo Dresser of LandVest | Christie’s International Realty holds the listing.

The gray-shingled main house spans four levels with a rooftop deck and an inground pool. Natural materials like wood and stone bring the outdoors in and make the abode’s interiors more inviting. The living room is anchored by a massive stone fireplace that stretches to the wood-beamed double-height ceiling, while the kitchen is outfitted for a chef with a large island and up-to-date appliances and made cozy by an imposing stone fireplace of its own.

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Elsewhere on the main level, owners will find the formal dining room and a wood-paneled library set under skylights, along with additional spots to relax and entertain. The generous primary suite sits under a vaulted ceiling on the upper floor with a designated sitting area, a trio of skylights, and French doors that open onto waterfront views. A spa-like en-suite bathroom and a walk-in closet round out the suite.

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Outside, owners and guests can relax by the gunite swimming pool or meander the property’s winding pathways that lead to some of the estate’s other key structures: the guesthouse, a carriage house with an attached apartment, and the dock-side bungalow. Lush gardens around the home lead to an open-air pavilion with a kitchen for al fresco entertaining, as well as a kitchen garden and greenhouse.

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Making the trophy property that much more unique, the Alexander Standish House stands at a distance from the main house, near the entrance to the estate. The modest structure, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, was initially believed to be built in 1666 by Alexander Standish, the son of Mayflower pilgrim Myles Standish. However, architectural elements (and the Massachusetts Historical Commission ) place the build date sometime closer to the middle of the 18th century.

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