Frank Lloyd Wright designed a whole bunch of personal houses in his profession, however you may solely discover one in New York Metropolis—the Crimson Beech dwelling on Staten Island. It’s not an excessive amount of of a secret that the famed architect wasn’t the Large Apple’s greatest fan, and the town doesn’t usually provide the reference to nature that Wright harnessed in his designs. However journey just a bit outdoors of the concrete jungle, and Wright designs begin popping up: One in every of them simply went up on the market. Simply 35 minutes from Manhattan, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Socrates Zaferiou Home sits on 2.5 personal acres inside Clausland Mountain Park in Blauvelt, New York. “It’s a whole escape from our New York Metropolis life, so it’s meant to be a decompression,” Sarah Anderson-Magness, the house’s present proprietor, mentioned in a video in regards to the property and her journey with it. The four-bedroom and two-and-a-half-bathroom property was lately listed on the market via Sotheby’s for $1.52 million.
Dubbed the Socrates Zaferiou Home after the unique proprietor, the property is one in every of Wright’s prefabricated houses offered via Marshall Erdman & Associates. Within the mid-Fifties, Wright labored with the developer to design three choices, together with an L-shaped single-story dwelling and a sq. two-story design. The third possibility was by no means realized. The Socrates Zaferiou Home is one in every of 9 of the previous design, which is colloquially referred to as prefab primary.
Earlier than buying any of of the Marshall Erdman houses, potential house owners needed to ship Wright photos of the lot and topographic maps for his approval. When Zaferiou despatched these supplies to Wright, the architect initially rejected the positioning stating it was too small. After buying extra land, Wright in the end granted his approval, and even added a fourth bed room and walkout basement to the design per Zaferiou’s request. The two,619-square-foot dwelling additionally options an outsized masonry hearth, giant window expanses, wooden paneling, and pink flooring.
