Real Estate
Having a Home by a Star Architect Is Amazing, Until You Try to Sell It
Across the country, architectural masterpieces are sitting on the market.
Source: William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty
In the mid-1990s, a wealthy family commissioned architect Steven Holl to build a country house on 33 acres in the Catskills. The result was a bright red, 2,900-square-foot house in a Y shape that cost about $1.3 million.
The family also built a boathouse (not designed by Holl) on the edge of a pond on their property and commissioned artist David Novros, whose art is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, to paint frescoes inside it. The boathouse added roughly $500,000 to the property’s cost.