A house on the market in northern Utah has made it to Zillow Gone Wild, and it’s not simply because it’s described as a “mid-century fashionable architectural masterpiece” impressed by the famed Frank Lloyd Wright.
This home listed for $800,000 in Windfall, Utah — close to Logan and an hour’s drive from Bear Lake — has one function particularly that’s catching eyes: a hallway ingesting fountain.
“Ingesting fountain is proof that oldsters would do something to maintain the children out of the kitchen. It’s the trendy different to ingesting from the hose,” one commenter posted on Zillow Gone Wild’s Instagram post. “That ingesting fountain and tile are taking me proper again to the hallway exterior of seventh grade Spanish class,” one other commented.
Nevertheless, the house is a lot greater than the ingesting fountain, which supplies off main ’60s faculty nostalgia with its vibrant orange tile backsplash.
Sure, the house’s authentic house owners — now-deceased Utahns Eugene and Alice Haycock — doubtless put in the ingesting fountain to “reduce down on all of the glassware” whereas they raised their 5 daughters, stated the itemizing’s actual property agent Heather Maughan, with North Realty.
A ingesting fountain is put in within the hallway of this midcentury fashionable home on the market in Windfall, Cache County, Utah.
Heather Maughan, North Realty
However the house’s backstory is much extra attention-grabbing. An architect, Eugene Haycock designed and constructed it himself after his earlier house in Logan was taken by eminent area, Maughan instructed the Deseret Information.
“Curiously, his home (was) the place the Aggie Bowl is at Utah State (College) proper now,” she stated. He used the cash paid by the state to compensate for his condemned house to design and construct his dream house.
Earlier than he died on the age of 93 in 2020, Eugene Haycock designed many buildings in northern Utah: “Romney Stadium, Logan Rec Middle, center faculties, Beaver Mountain Lodge, Logan Airport, Elks Lodge, and plenty of Latter-day Saint church buildings just like the ‘Golden Toaster,’” in line with his obituary.
“His favourite design was his house with the Hyperbolic Paraboloid roof,” his obituary says, “often known as the glass home inbuilt 1967.” Its roof “attaches onto these two buttresses on both aspect of the home, and it simply spans the home and acts extra like a bridge,” Maughan stated.
The house’s wing-shaped roof and virtually fully glass exterior partitions are actually what makes the Haycock house distinctive. There’s a suspended concrete slab for the higher flooring. The downstairs partitions are additionally concrete. Then add within the blue velvety carpet, wood-paneled partitions, retro orange sofa, the basic linoleum flooring that’s “authentic and shockingly in nice form,” Maughan stated, and the result’s an untouched ’60s haven.
“Nothing has modified. They haven’t modified the carpet or something,” Maughan stated. “Alice, the mother, I feel she was a scrubber. … (All the things) is absolutely clear.”
Alice Haycock certainly “loved holding her home clear and delightful,” her obituary states. “She beloved working within the yard and backyard and beloved peonies and all types of flowers.”
The house sits on a roughly 3/4-acre piece of land with an apple orchard. The apple timber predate the house and are about 100 years outdated, Maughan stated. There’s additionally a pear tree and an apricot tree.
“It’s simply magical,” she stated. “Simply magical.”
The Haycocks’ house is now owned by their daughters, who market it a couple of month in the past, Maughan stated. One potential purchaser put a suggestion on the house under the itemizing value, however they didn’t settle for it.
The house was initially listed for $820,000, however they lowered it to $800,000. Amid at present’s excessive rates of interest, Utah’s housing market has certainly slowed and seen house costs dip. Houses sit in the marketplace for a mean of 60 days in Windfall, Maughan stated, “so we’re doing fairly good.”
Three different consumers, together with a person from New York who curates glass homes, have additionally expressed curiosity, Maughan stated.
“All the children are simply comfortable to attend for the right purchaser. They need anyone who loves the integrity of the property and the roof, as a result of it’s a particular place for them,” Maughan stated. “They had been raised on this iconic glass home, so it has a whole lot of that means and so they need a specific purchaser that can honor it.”
