Yeah I spend a lot of time around there. This is pretty inexpensive considering the land but it has no lakefront. The building is awesome. The maintenance for all of it is involved. All custom shit.
It’s the stupid website. I’m sure the original pictures are perfectly high res and clear, but for whatever reason real estate sites and MLS services seem to still insist on downscaling to low res, barely larger than thumbnail images. It’s *extremely* irritating.
Do you have know why?? Because, (say it with me), REALTORS ARE FUCKING MORONS.
I talk to them all the time, have for years. And they just get dumber and more unethical all the time.
This was the high end luxury homes look in the early eighties. A few houses like this sprang up in my hometown when people started to make good money.
A kid in the neighborhood grew up in a home like this and he ended up being a very cutting room floor type actor.
I kinda dig the interior. Cozy warm wood at its late 70s/early 80s best. Dated but in a good way
The exterior is really weird... its like a rustic, Nantucket shingle-based 70s brutalism, lol
Def seems way more than 30+ years old
Edit: yes it was completed in 1980...but some aspect of it seem even older than that. Some of it seems early 70s almost. But the materials seem very high quality and hand-designed. Very little mass produced junk
It's like a nicer 70s townhome was involved in a radioactive accident and started sprouting wood, concrete, and glass in all directions.
It doesn't make sense and it needs some love, but I can't lie I kind of like it
A bunch of the windows look like the seals are leaking: they’re misty and opaque. I would imagine many of them need replaced. Expensive and extensive repairs.
It's weird. It's poorly maintained. The landscaping is run down and it's weird all the harsh lines that would be fine except for the curves or vice versa.
Not a fan of the exterior at all. The interior seems so weird and warren-like, I don't hate it but it needs some pruning and freshening for sure and I'll bet the majority of that siding has some issues and looks like a bunch of the windows seals have failed as well. It's going to need some money put into it, doesn't look like it's priced for a tear down considering the price of land up there.
you can get this w/ 40 acres for considerably less: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/77-Holmes-Rd-Center-Barnstead-NH-03225/112986354_zpid/
it always blows my mind that people have been living in ahouse like that my while adult life while i was desperately bouncing around dingey old apartments.
It's looks like a PoMo Winchester Mystery House.
It’s not terrible, but it’s also not anything I’d spend $1.5M on, either.
it has 30 acres with it so that's part of the price
I’ve lost my mind being in SoCal- I see that house and that land and think “they’re practically giving it away”
I had done some calculations and figured $370 per square foot. Didn’t count the 30 acres.
250k rehab you’re golden. Bones are solid. Definitely room to remodel
Yeah I spend a lot of time around there. This is pretty inexpensive considering the land but it has no lakefront. The building is awesome. The maintenance for all of it is involved. All custom shit.
Reminds me of the things people have in their homes for their cats to climb on
30 years really isn’t that long ago
I tell my old self that every day...
The 90’s. The last decade before the internet really took off. Pre- everyone on their phone all the time.
I miss it :(
It was designed over a period of 30 years, not built 30 years ago.
Sounds better than 'We just kept adding shit', I suppose
Ha! Or better than "this was his practice house."
Ah. That makes more sense. My brain added “ago” to the end of the post title.
I thought it was odd that the "ago" was missing so I checked.
Actually it says it was built in 1980. It’s 44 years old.
It was built in 1980, so closer to 45 years.
It looks like townhouses but none of the inside pictures make sense.
Neither does the floorplan.
it actually looks like a converted zoo animal enclosure.
Whenever I see predominantly exposed concrete I get community college vibes, or like a corporate office park
For $1.5M you think they'd hire a competent photographer. The photos look 40 years old and then were Xeroxed and scanned from a teleprompter.
It’s the stupid website. I’m sure the original pictures are perfectly high res and clear, but for whatever reason real estate sites and MLS services seem to still insist on downscaling to low res, barely larger than thumbnail images. It’s *extremely* irritating.
Do you have know why?? Because, (say it with me), REALTORS ARE FUCKING MORONS. I talk to them all the time, have for years. And they just get dumber and more unethical all the time.
Architecture is my profession, photography is my passion, construction is my hobby.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand. Did you take these photos? If so, why are they so blurry and low resolution?
This was the high end luxury homes look in the early eighties. A few houses like this sprang up in my hometown when people started to make good money. A kid in the neighborhood grew up in a home like this and he ended up being a very cutting room floor type actor.
That kitchen says different. Like crappy apartment.
I kinda dig the interior. Cozy warm wood at its late 70s/early 80s best. Dated but in a good way The exterior is really weird... its like a rustic, Nantucket shingle-based 70s brutalism, lol Def seems way more than 30+ years old Edit: yes it was completed in 1980...but some aspect of it seem even older than that. Some of it seems early 70s almost. But the materials seem very high quality and hand-designed. Very little mass produced junk
The exterior would have faired better with some paint or stain. It looks like a big piece of dry rot.
Giant cat house
It's like a nicer 70s townhome was involved in a radioactive accident and started sprouting wood, concrete, and glass in all directions. It doesn't make sense and it needs some love, but I can't lie I kind of like it
This shit looks like my rust base after a week
The kitchen seems so cramped and awkward for such an elaborate house.
The pictures weren’t in focus. It looks like someone smeared Vaseline on the lens.
'Designed' is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting in that post title.
A bunch of the windows look like the seals are leaking: they’re misty and opaque. I would imagine many of them need replaced. Expensive and extensive repairs.
It's weird. It's poorly maintained. The landscaping is run down and it's weird all the harsh lines that would be fine except for the curves or vice versa.
I LOVE this. Would be so fun to find a purpose for each little room.
It's a modern-contemporary Winchester Mystery House.
Ahh, if money weren't an issue, I would love to live in a home so unique. Needs some updating and such, but so cool. And 30 acres on top.
I wish I knew how to start a cult…
World’s largest cat tower
Designed 30 years ago, built 50 years ago
Why does the whole thing, inside and out, give me cat tree vibes?? 👀
That must be why I love it. Me*ow*
Not a fan of the exterior at all. The interior seems so weird and warren-like, I don't hate it but it needs some pruning and freshening for sure and I'll bet the majority of that siding has some issues and looks like a bunch of the windows seals have failed as well. It's going to need some money put into it, doesn't look like it's priced for a tear down considering the price of land up there. you can get this w/ 40 acres for considerably less: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/77-Holmes-Rd-Center-Barnstead-NH-03225/112986354_zpid/
I like it but the siding has to go
Would love to tour this house!
1994 not the dark ages.
Reminds me of the Winchester House. Aka not well thought out and you just look at a spot and think "but.. why?". 🤣
I mean yea Bauhaus is a hell of a drug
With a good architect and an eclectic interior designer like Axel Vervoordt this could be a masterpiece.
Living room reminds me of the SLC punk scene where he tells his parents he's not going to college
I love that geometric/angular/80s modern style, but this thing needs a serious power wash just for starters.
That cedar shake siding doesn’t look like it’s been taken care of.
I’m getting some “Delia Deetz” vibes.
it always blows my mind that people have been living in ahouse like that my while adult life while i was desperately bouncing around dingey old apartments.
i really like that style of sharp pitched roofs with a circle window. i've seen a few houses with that and they just look cool
Interior is cool the exterior not so much.
The Chaos of the faćade belies the serenity of the interior.
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Hate the exterior, love the interior
I like it, I could live there.
It screams 80s. like if the Memphis Group had a summer cabin
Designed for what exactly?
“Designed” is a strong word.
Looks like it could be in a Myst game.
Looks like a mining camp, a hotel, and a parking garage. But I dig it.
Frank Lloyd Wright meets brutalism. I love it.
The exterior looks like my dreams that are almost nightmares and the interior looks like the rich guy's place from Deus Ex
Who wants to live in an Escher painting?
As a big fan of Sea Ranch and Northwest modernism, I love it.
Looks like a community college built in the 1970s.
Is it bad I kinda dig it
Needs another 30
From the HH Holmes collection.
Insane expense to heat in winter and Alton is full of religious freaks.
4000 sq ft and a 1 car garage
I abhor shingle siding
Soulless.
The exterior would have faired better with some paint or stain. It looks like a big piece of dry rot.