This million Florida estate has a private baseball field

This million Florida estate known as Old St. Augustine Hills is listed at $9.6 million outside Tallahassee. The 100-acre compound includes a full-size baseball field with lights and a batting cage, plus a 6,000-square-foot custom home the Hanselman family has occupied for 23 years.

Key Takeaways

• Old St. Augustine Hills asks $9.6 million for roughly 100 acres near Tallahassee.
• Amenities include a lit full-size baseball field, batting cage, ponds, orchards, and a pool.
• The 6,000-square-foot residence features custom millwork designed with architect Ken Pieper.
• After 23 years, David and René Hanselman say it is time to sell as their children are grown.
• The land’s history stretches to Albert Gallatin Neal’s 1960 purchase and a road tied to the 1680s.

Where is this million Florida estate located?

The listing sits on a quiet stretch of Old St. Augustine Road outside Tallahassee. According to Robb Report, the acreage has spent decades avoiding the usual fate of large parcels near a growing city.

Old St. Augustine Road dates to the 1680s as part of the Spanish El Camino Real. The property also sits along the Cody Scarp, an ancient shoreline linked to its rolling terrain and natural springs.

Readers browsing luxury real estate and dream homes will note the privacy-forward grounds: spring-fed ponds stocked with bass, a cypress duck pond, wooded acreage for deer and wild bobwhite quail, orchards, gardens, and a swimming pool.

What makes the grounds and baseball field stand out?

Before visitors reach the house, the landscape does the talking. Retired Navy captain Albert Gallatin Neal bought the land in 1960, dug its ponds, and planted more than 4,000 trees. After his death, developers approached his widow, Margaret, but she refused sales that would break up the acreage.

In 2003 she sold to David and René Hanselman, who raised four children on the estate. The property’s signature amenity is a full-size baseball field with lights, a batting cage, and a stone backstop.

Family lore also ties the place to Dick Howser, the former Yankees manager and 1985 World Series-winning Kansas City Royals skipper, who spent holidays and afternoons there through a family connection.

What is inside the $9.6 million house?

The custom residence spans about 6,000 square feet. René Hanselman designed molding, doors, and cabinetry with architect Ken Pieper from more than 20 pages of millwork plans. A stained-glass front door by Karen Pritzel carries a large tree motif, and a nine-foot magnolia chandelier anchors the foyer.

Original artwork by Paul Tamanian was commissioned for the home. A two-story wing holds an artist’s studio with a private office above, while the main living room rises beneath 25-foot cypress beams with views over the grounds.

Outside, a wood-fired kitchen and cook shack support the estate’s long entertaining tradition. Listed with Jon Kohler & Associates, the sale follows David Hanselman’s blunt math: grown kids, 6,000 square feet, and a hundred acres—and “it’s just time.”