A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed dwelling in a New York park can now be yours.
Library of Congress; Ellis Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty
A uncommon Frank Lloyd Wright-designed dwelling set on 2.5 acres in New York’s Clausland Mountain Park has listed for $1.52 million, The Publish has discovered.
Often called the Socrates Zaferiou Home (the title of the primary proprietor), the mid-century single-story dwelling is just one of 9 designed by Wright within the Nineteen Fifties for developer Marshall Erdman. It’s additionally the one Wright-designed dwelling on the Hudson River’s west financial institution.
Made up of 4 bedrooms and a pair of.5 baths, the property is taken into account a modified Usonian-style dwelling. It contains a walk-out basement with tall ceilings, not often present in Wright’s type, in line with the itemizing.
“Zaferiou appealed to Wright for 2 years to approve his website and expanded dwelling type, and at last, this variation of the Usonian type design was ultimately authorised by Wright,” the itemizing says.
The house was briefly listed for lease final summer time.
Spanning greater than 2,600 sq. ft, options embrace an L-shaped open ground plan, a flat roof, an outsized masonry fire, massive window expanses, wooden paneling and Wright’s signature pink flooring.
Throughout development of the house, Wright visited the location. However he handed away in 1959 earlier than it was accomplished. The undertaking architect for the Guggenheim Museum in New York Metropolis later took over the undertaking and completed the house.
“I like the property for its basic Frank Lloyd Wright type and the drama it creates,” itemizing rep Richard Ellis, of Ellis Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, instructed The Publish.
Sarah Anderson-Magness (additionally an proprietor) and Zaferiou, who met Wright on the website “share a ardour about preserving this historic dwelling, and a need that future homeowners will respect it in the identical method,” Ellis mentioned.
“Accordingly, we’re searching for a caretaker as a lot as a purchaser who will recognize and protect this dwelling and get as a lot pleasure as residing there as the unique and present homeowners had,” Ellis added. “What a becoming setting for a Frank Lloyd Wright dwelling — constructed right into a hill on a 532-acre state park bringing in all the weather of nature, but nonetheless half-hour to New York Metropolis.”
The house was fully restored to incorporate all authentic components of the interval kitchen, full walk-out basement, patio and planting areas, and rows of glass doorways and home windows.
The sunroom.
A breakfast space.
The entryway.
The lounge.
The kitchen.
A eating space.
The again porch.
One in all 4 bedrooms.
One other bed room.
One in all 2.5 bogs.
The property is located on 2.5 acres.
Wright is taken into account one among America’s most prolific and influential architects and performed an vital position within the evolution of mid-century properties. His visionary work, spanning over seven many years, cemented his place because the American Institute of Architect’s “best American architect of all time.”
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