Thanks to architectural modifications the extended and enlarged entrance now makes a welcoming statement. The motor court has been reconfigured allowing for guest parking and spaces to allow for tropical plantings. A pair of pelicans perched on opposite pedestals act as the perfect greeters.
There was something about the house that Mark Pettinga could not forget. As a boy he would bike along the oak-shaded street, slowing slightly as he pedaled by. As a young adult he began playing golf and viewed the home from a fresh angle. Slowly, his fascination with the house grew and he wondered what it would be like to live there.
Mark muses as he remembers the youthful thoughts that stayed with him. “My mother and father had purchased a condo in John’s Island back in 1974 and as a kid I spent plenty of time biking around and playing golf on the north course,” he recalls. “I always thought it was a perfect little house with a terrific location, and that if it ever became available I would be interested in buying it.”
The years passed. He went to college and met his wife Gayle while attending law school. The couple married, had two daughters Annie and Emma, now teenagers, and put down roots in Evansville, Ind. Then his mother, who had since become a widow, called to tell him she was thinking about selling her condo.
Read the entire article in the September 2009 issue
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