The previous residence of famed photographer Ansel Adams is on the market in San Francisco for $5.45 million, in response to an inventory from CaenLucier, a department of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty.
Initially inbuilt 1902, the house is positioned at 129 twenty fourth Avenue in West Clay Park, a neighborhood located between the Presidio and Lands Finish. It options 4 bedrooms and three and a half loos and is positioned on a sprawling 9,000 sq. foot lot with the Golden Gate Bridge serving as a backdrop. The itemizing was first reported by the San Francisco Enterprise Occasions.
Adams lived within the residence from 1903 till 1957. It was reworked in 1929 by architect Alfred Henry Jacobs, who designed its “grand salon,” a big front room with 20-foot vaulted ceilings that itemizing brokers mentioned was as soon as used for conferences by San Francisco artists.
The previous residence of famed photographer Ansel Adams is on the market in San Francisco for almost $5.5 million. It encompasses a front room with 20-foot vaulted ceilings.
Present by David Duncan LivingstonIn response to itemizing brokers, Ansel Adams hailed the property as an inspiration for his life in a 1981 documentary. Adams, a San Francisco native, is best known for his high-contrast landscape photographs that captured California and neighboring states.
“The home out right here on the sand dunes, nothing however sand and pure shrubbery, large open expanse to the Gate, for miles round there was simply wilderness, I might run all the way down to the seashore… And this early setting actually, I believe, formed my life… I hint who I’m and the route of my growth to these years of rising up in our home by the dunes, propelled particularly by an inner spark tenderly stored alive and glowing by my father,” Adams mentioned within the documentary.
The home additionally options giant outside areas with views and entry to the Golden Gate Nationwide Recreation Space.
Earlier this 12 months, the De Younger Museum in San Francisco hosted the “Ansel Adams in Our Time” images exhibition that illuminated Adams’ curiosity in nature and preservation, in response to the museum. The exhibition ran from April 8 to Aug. 6.
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