Up for grabs is this sweet 1955 Palmer & Krisel-designed
home with well-worn vintage features but is ripe for restoration. This 1,344
square-foot home contains four bedrooms and two bathrooms, a detached two-car
garage and a 5,900 square-foot lot with an asking price of $420,000.
Situated on a corner lot, this modernist home is definitely a diamond
in the rough, with its unassuming curb appeal and worn front yard. There’s
great architectural bones hidden behind mature shade trees, with north-facing clerestory
windows on the gable end of the home, a detached rear-yard garage with clerestory
windows, and classic midcentury lines.
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| Living room |
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| Living, dining and entry |
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| Living as viewed from hall |
The entry sits at the center of the home, leading to the
living, kitchen and dining rooms at the rear of the home overlooking the
backyard while the bedrooms sits along the northern streetside of the home. The
living room features walls of glass overlooking the backyard, with the original
clerestory windows still in place. A slim, low-profile modernist fireplace with
a simple steel surround, while the blank face next to the firebox opening would
have originally been accented with one-inch mosaic tiles.
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| Kitchen with original cabinets, counters and cooktop |
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| Laundry and kitchen |
The kitchen sits adjacent to the living room and still maintains
its original, yet very well worn cabinetry. Original black speckle tile
countertops, a signature material used by Krisel, are still in place, and the
original split gas cooktop is still intact. The kitchen is open to the laundry,
which in turn opens to the backyard.
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| Hall |
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| Master bedroom |
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| Master bathroom |
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| Master bath shower |
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| Secondary bathroom |
The hallway maintains original storage cabinetry, while the
bathrooms contain original medicine cabinets, sinks, and original tilework in
the master bathroom shower surround. The bedrooms appear to be in their
original configurations, with uninsulated open beamed vaulted ceilings and
clerestory windows on the end bedrooms.
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| Backyard |
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| Backyard covered patio - the first covered here with track lighting! |
The backyard is a good candidate for a jackhammer, as one
hundred percent of it has been covered in concrete, devoid of greenery and
surrounded by concrete block walls. A portion off the patio off the kitchen is
covered, with track lighting, a first seen on this blog.
Homes like this one offer nothing but opportunity. The
vintage fixtures, appliances and features naturally yield towards preservation
where feasible, and the blank slate that this one offers should make anyone
excitement with the endless possibilities.
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