The Swallen Home, a mid-century fashionable assets in New Canaan, Conn., is at the National Register of Historic Homes — and is now in the marketplace for $2.39 million.
The four-bedroom unfold at 257 Wahackme Road is 3,388 sq. toes and sits on 1.24 acres.
It additionally significantly comes with a pavilion made from glass on all 4 facets, that includes a black hearth, and referred to as the “Madmen Room.”
It used to be designed through Harvard Five architect Landis Gores, who labored with fellow Harvard Five architect Philip Johnson at the famed Glass House, situated within sight.
The primary a part of this indexed area, inbuilt 1954, used to be a prefabricated house designed through architect Carl Koch.
The present homeowners are Aileen Mastey, who could also be the dealer — with William Pitt Julia B Fee Sotheby’s International Realty — and her financier husband Michael Mastey.
They purchased the house in 2005 for $996,000. Although they deliberate to renovate it, they ended up doing a complete rebuild at the present basis, which used to be finished in 2014.
Features come with radiant concrete flooring, an open kitchen and a circle of relatives room separated through a propane hearth wall with pocket doorways — and a house workplace.
There’s additionally a hearth pit, terraces constructed from timber at the assets and a generator.
“We are promoting to be aware of rehabbing some other antique assets. We adore mid-century moderns, and didn’t wish to see some other tear down in New Canaan get replaced with a McMansion,” Aileen stated.