A Portland house with a provenance like no other is for sale. The revolutionary dwelling was designed 82 years ago by modernist architect Richard Neutra for lily hybridizer Jan de Graaff and his wife, Peggy, heir to the Macy’s department store owner who died on the Titanic. — Oregon Live
The home, originally constructed in 1941, is located at 1901 South Comus Street. It was listed on Thursday, May 19th through Oregon-based real estate company The Hasson Company with an asking price of $3,750,000.
The three-level residence is celebrated for its embodiment of Neutra’s International style with its floor-to-ceiling windows and custom wood built-ins. It is one of only two Oregon homes designed by Neutra, who was commissioned by the de Graaffs to design a house for their modern furniture and art collection.
The house spans 6,887 square feet and sits on a 0.85-acre lot, offering unobstructed mountain, city, and river views. It features five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms.
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Somebody made it better by adding a pitched roof :(
It's supposed to look like this:
Thanks for doing the research! Was skeptical that it was a Neutra until seeing this photo.
Yeah, the roof leaked so I guess they hired some contractor to put the pitched roof and I doubt there was much of any designing done by contractor. Flat roof... they leak up in Oregon. While nice design by Neutra, wrong type of roof in this climate considering the technology of roofs 80+ years ago.
Modernism, like other styles is usually about style over function. It would be nice to define modernism as just another tradition and contemporary traditional buildings as modern, just to move on from this endless polemic.
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