A Family Home, For Generations
Long before the Spencer family arrived, this property seems to have been built around family life.
According to a story passed down with the home, a previous owner's son was an accomplished competitive swimmer—said to have competed at the Olympic level. His parents wanted him to be able to train at home, and the unusually large backyard pool was built for him.
We can't independently verify every detail of that story today. But one thing is unmistakable: this was never meant to be an ordinary backyard pool.
And when the Spencer family arrived in 1995, it became the center of a new family story.
John and Susan Spencer moved here with their two sons, John Daniel and Michael. The boys grew up at Whitethorn, and the house quickly became what it would remain for the next three decades:
The house everyone came to.
Friends. Family. Teammates. Neighbors.
Summer days around the pool. Kids running through the backyard. Holidays and birthdays. Meals around the table. People staying longer than they planned.
It was the kind of home where memories weren't really scheduled. They just happened.
Years later, Michael returned to Whitethorn.
Only this time, he wasn't one of the boys growing up here.
He was a husband and a father.
Michael and Melissa began raising their own family in the same home where he had grown up. And remarkably, the house began doing all the same things again.
Another generation learned to swim in that pool. Another group of kids filled the backyard. Friends and teammates came through the doors. There were birthdays, cookouts, holidays, ordinary weeknights, celebrations and long summer afternoons.
Two generations of the Spencer family have now grown up here.
The house has changed along the way. Bathrooms were renovated. The kitchen was updated. Systems were replaced and improved. The pool was modernized. The property was cared for and adapted for another generation.
But the most important thing about Whitethorn never changed.
It remained a place that brought people together.
Now It's Someone Else's Turn
After more than 30 years with one family, Whitethorn is ready for a new one.
The Spencer family isn't looking for someone to preserve their memories.
Those belong to them.
What they hope is that the next owners will come here and make entirely new ones.
Maybe another child learns to swim in that enormous pool.
Maybe the backyard fills up with teammates and neighborhood kids again.
Maybe holidays get bigger because everyone wants to gather here.
Maybe somebody looks back 20 years from now and realizes that some of the best days of their life happened in this house without them even knowing it at the time.
That's what Whitethorn has been for this family.
And that's the opportunity that comes with it now.
A great family property doesn't just hold the memories of the people who came before.
It gives the next family a place to create their own.
The next chapter belongs to you.