Frank Lloyd Wright homes are usually not frequent within the East. In New York, the one home on the west financial institution of the Hudson designed by this nation’s most well-known architect is now on the market. Constructed circa 1960, this Usonian-style home is called the Socrates Zaferiou Home, named for its first proprietor. Set on two and one-half acres in New York’s Clausland Mountain Park, a 532 acre, closely wooded park full of assorted, wildlife, it has listed for $1.52 million by Richard Ellis and Brandon Wagner of Ellis Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty.
Accomplished after the demise of Frank Lloyd Wright, the home is an efficient instance of the Usonian fashion the architect championed late in his life. Certainly one of 9 designed by Wright within the Nineteen Fifties for developer Marshall Erdman, the home encompasses greater than 2,600 square-feet and has 4 bedrooms and two and one-half baths. The property includes a walk-out basement with tall ceilings, an uncommon characteristic in Wright’s homes. There’s a carport, a workshop, eat-in kitchen, safety system, patio, central air con and built-in vacuum.
It additionally options signature Wright parts, together with an L-shaped open flooring plan, a flat roof, an outsized masonry hearth, giant window expanses, wooden paneling and Wright’s signature Cherokee crimson flooring. The house was utterly restored to incorporate all unique parts of the interval kitchen, full walk-out basement, patio and planting areas, and rows of glass doorways and home windows.
Throughout building of the house, Wright visited the location, however handed away in 1959, earlier than it was accomplished. The mission architect for the Guggenheim Museum in New York Metropolis later took over building and completed the mission.
“I really like the property for its traditional Frank Lloyd Wright fashion and the drama it creates,” says itemizing rep Richard Ellis. Sarah Anderson-Magness (additionally an proprietor) and Zaferiou, who met Wright on the web site “share a ardour about preserving this historic dwelling, and a need that future house owners will respect it in the identical means,” Ellis stated.
“Accordingly, we’re in search of a caretaker as a lot as a purchaser who will admire and protect this dwelling and get as a lot pleasure as residing there as the unique and present house owners 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.”