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A $7.5 million desert-contemporary estate sits on nearly 300 feet of Lake Las Vegas shoreline, and the tour goes through every square foot of it.

Mike and Jaden of Propertygrams pull up to 23 Summer House Drive in Henderson, Nevada, for a walkthrough of “Water’s Edge,” a four-bedroom, six-bathroom estate listed at $7.5 million inside The Estates on the North Shore of Lake Las Vegas. The 8,838-square-foot home sits on a 1.21-acre lot with a private sandy beach and unobstructed views across the lake, the surrounding golf courses, and the desert canyons beyond.

• Water’s Edge is listed at $7.5 million, spans 8,838 square feet with four bedrooms and six bathrooms, and occupies a 1.21-acre parcel with nearly 300 feet of direct water frontage.
• The home was designed by Swaback Partners, founded by Vernon Swaback, described as the youngest and last living apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Lake Las Vegas Sports Club membership — valued at $10,000 — is included with the sale, granting access to two championship 18-hole golf courses, two fitness centers and a spa, plus tennis, pickleball, and swim facilities.

An Arrival Built Around Stone and Water

The tour starts the way the architects intended it to: at a private porte-cochère framed by a dramatic stone entry wall. From that first step onto the property, sightlines open up toward the water, the fairways, and the canyon terrain that surrounds Lake Las Vegas. It’s a deliberate sequencing move — Swaback Partners designed the arrival to compress, then release, so the reveal of the lake and mountains lands with full force once guests clear the entry.

That kind of staged arrival is a signature of Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced organic design, adapted here for a Southern Nevada climate rather than the Midwest settings Wright typically worked in. The porte-cochère isn’t just a covered driveway — it’s the first move in a home built to manage desert light and heat while still keeping the outdoors visually present at every turn.

Swaback Partners’ Desert Contemporary Pedigree

Vernon Swaback’s firm has built a reputation as one of the go-to names for desert contemporary architecture, and Water’s Edge reads as a clear extension of that body of work. The open floor plan, the layered overhangs, and the constant framing of natural landscape features throughout the house all trace back to organic design principles Swaback absorbed directly from Wright before founding his own practice.

Vernon Swaback is recognized as the youngest and last living apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright — and Water’s Edge carries that lineage in its bones.

The exterior tells the technical side of that story. A dynamic geometric roofline runs across the home with extensive cantilevered overhangs, throwing shade across glass walls that would otherwise bake under the Nevada sun. Clerestory windows set high in the walls counter that shade by pulling natural light deep into the interior, so the broad open-plan living spaces stay bright without taking on direct desert heat.

Lot, Water Frontage, and What’s Included

The numbers on the site itself are what separate Water’s Edge from a typical lakefront listing. Nearly 300 feet of direct water frontage on a 1.21-acre parcel is a significant stretch of shoreline for a private residential lot, and it comes with its own sandy beach rather than a shared or engineered access point. From the house, that frontage lines up with views of the lake, the community’s golf courses, and the desert canyon terrain ringing the development.

The sale bundles in a Lake Las Vegas Sports Club membership valued at $10,000, covering two championship 18-hole golf courses, two fitness centers with a spa, and tennis, pickleball, and swim facilities. The Estates on the North Shore sits roughly 30 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran International Airport, and Nevada’s lack of individual and corporate income tax adds a financial angle buyers at this price point tend to weigh alongside the architecture.

Anyone tracking this tier of the market has seen the range Propertygrams-style tours cover — from an ultra-modern $65 million mega mansion in Beverly Hills to lakefront estates built around water access rather than city skylines. Water’s Edge lands in that same conversation, just with a golf-and-lake community backdrop instead of a coastline or a downtown grid.

Living Spaces Designed for Both Ends of the Day

Inside, the open floor plan keeps the living room, kitchen, and outdoor terraces functioning as one continuous space rather than separated rooms. The living room’s fireplace and floor-to-ceiling glass frame the lake and mountain views directly, while the kitchen’s island layout and built-in wine storage are set up for the kind of entertaining a home this size is built to host. The primary suite carries its own fireplace and a spa-style bathroom, giving the home a private retreat that still connects back to the same water views running through the rest of the house.

Outdoors, the pool and multiple seating areas sit right along that nearly 300-foot stretch of shoreline, putting the home’s most dramatic sightlines — lake, fairways, canyon ridgeline — directly outside the back door. It’s the kind of layout that shows up across high-end lake and waterfront listings, similar in spirit to the backyard water features turning up in other mansion tours right now, just built around a private beach instead of a resort-style pool complex.

At $7.5 million, Water’s Edge is priced in line with what a Swaback Partners design and a private beach on Lake Las Vegas commands in this market — and with the Sports Club membership already included, whoever closes on 23 Summer House Drive tees off on two championship courses without writing another check.