1804 Running Brook Dr 78723 $325K
Nicely updated Delwood home with some MCM features. Listing info HERE
4627 Marlo Dr 78723 $225K (featured on A&E’s Sell This House)
Kind of interesting Cliff May-esque house in a little known neighborhood that has potential to be something in 10 years or so. This house will be featured on A&E’s Sell This House this Saturday, January 14th and was re-designed by Roger Hazard.
Info on the show HERE
Listing info HERE
Travis Heights Blvd $549K
This home was listed as a foreclosure not too long ago, but is now finished and back on the market.
Listing info HERE
2210 Eastside Dr 78704 – $775K
Beautiful MCM inspired modern home!!
Listing info HERE
Virtual Tour HERE
SOLD – 12002 Indianhead – $215K (that’s right $215K) – Eubank Acres
Oh, what could have been so lovely . . . damn flippers!!!!!!! Went and looked at this house in Eubank Acres today and was heart-broken to see a house with such nice bones “re-muddled” so poorly – what a crying shame! The cost to re-do what has been re-done will effectively move it well above the price-point of the area. However, for anyone on a budget wanting a project and not worried about re-sale; here’s your chance!!! Could be a REALLY neat house in the right hands!!!
Listing info HERE!
3103 Highland Ter W $589K
Great location, nice lot, great trees, good schools, pretty cool MCM, but I see too much ikea for $600K.
Listing info HERE
Cliff Street – $250k – Harwell Hamilton Harris
I don’t normally listed condos, but then again, most condos where not designed by Harwell Hamilton Harris. I would be surprised if this place last all that long on the market. I’d stop by this weekend for the open house but I’ll be out in Bandera running Cactus Rose.
Philip Johnson: The Glass House
The girl surprised me last weekend with a trip up to Connecticut. When she told me about it 6 months ago, I was convinced it was a trip to vist Daryl Hall because, why else would you go to Connecticut? It turned out to be something equally as awesome, a visit to Philip Johnson’s Glass House.
I highly recommend making the opportunity to go up there and visiting the property. Like pretty much everyone, I was familiar with the iconic house but turns out to be a minor portion of the overall property and story. First and foremost, Johnson was a landscape architect and the structures are placed and scaled as objects within picture that is he is framing with the landscape. Scale is a word used a lot when discussing this property because it is manipulated in ways that I’ve rarely seen at this scale.
This picture is taken from next to the glass house. The white structure in the background was built when Johnson was 80 (he lived until he was 99) and is a climbing tower made up cinder blocks stacked double high for steps. It about 30 feet tall. The pavilion on the water obviously invokes Renaissance Baroque architecture though it is made of a modular steel that snaps together. It does have a gold leaf ceiling that you can’t see here but you can see how it tints the reflections in the water. The pavilion is only about 6.5 feet tall (5’3″ interior).
I won’t spend any more time here trying to give justice to the property or relaying tidbits of Johnson’s life since experiencing first hand is so much better. The tickets tend to sellout far in advance but it is very much worth planning a trip up. At only 90 minutes out side of NYC, it makes a great day trip on a visit to the city.
Here is a small photo set my wife took of the visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/modernaustin/sets/72157627745495869/with/6234561358/
Learn more about The Glass House here: philipjohnsonglasshouse.org
SOLD – 601 Westwood Ter – 1.1 Million – Don Harris remodel of MCM
I love this – modern, up to date, but still honors the original MCM vibe!
Listing info HERE
SOLD – small MCM @ 3416 Foothill Ter- $715K
Very cool, but IMHO, HIGHLY overpriced – @ $715K that’s $482 per sf!!!!
More info here
Stenger Renovation – Stuart Sampley
Before:
In Progress:
Nice photo set of before and after pictures of this Stenger renovation on Ridgewood.
Design by Stuart Sampley.
A bit of a side note: I’ve seen a number of houses referenced as AD Stenger’s personal home. I know of at least 6 off the top of my head. That represents at minimum 5% of the homes he build. Based on stories I’ve heard, I get the sense he was in and out of a number of places due events in his personal life with some longer than others. The place I count most significant of his ‘personal homes’ is his first place on Arthur but that is easily up for debate. I tend to rank all the homes that area above the later period Stenger with the exception of the pilot house on Ridgewood.
Farhills Dr – $1.5M
I couldn’t find any info on Fred Day, the architect referenced here, except that at one time he may have worked with “Justin and Associates” and favored a local architect for city hall in 1983. It seems you don’t really exist (at least according to the internets) if you worked prior to 2000 or so.
EDIT on 9/9/2010: Thanks to a reader, I have a more info: The architectural firm Fred Day, who is still alive and in Austin, worked with was Jessen Associates. Jessen did a quite a bit of work at UT include the Student Union. The builder for this home was Jack Rather.
EDIT on 1/26/2011: Updated listing with more pictures. I still quite like this home so it gets a bump back up here to the front page (something I don’t usually do).
Fehr & Granger – $1MM
I have been waiting for this listing for some time now. It is huge on a huge and wonderful & private lot (next to Pease Park – Now with no frisbee golf!). It also needs a fair bit of work. The family that has it now is the second owners (purchased from the original owners in the late ’60s). It is mostly intact but there were some modifications down, particularly to the back master suite at some point).
Given the location and the neighbors I could see this attracting teardown developers. That would have surely happened a few years ago but perhaps lesser chance now given the overall market. I know one of the owners (it is owned jointly by the children of family that bought it in the 60s) desperately wants to house to be restored and not torn down.
Fergusons’ Stenger Restoration
Crestivew Doors did a write-up on this Stenger update which features their doors. This is how you do a restoration / renovation.