A San Antonio mansion lately listed for $2.1 million presents the uncommon likelihood to own residence that’s each fashionable and steeped within the metropolis’s architectural historical past.
Ken Bentley was one of many architects behind a few of San Antonio’s most iconic constructions and landmarks, as one of many designers of Hemisfair, St. Mary’s Corridor and Trinity College’s Laurie Auditorium.
Bentley additionally labored with one of the crucial distinguished architects in San Antonio, O’Neil Ford, who oversaw the revitalization of La Villita and helped design components of each UT-San Antonio and Trinity College. After his work on St. Mary’s Corridor, Ford invited Bentley to affix his structure agency and took an curiosity in his work.
“Some individuals are one in one million, however O’Neil was actually one in 100 million in his items of understanding operate, the right spirit and the proper supplies,” Bentley as soon as advised an actual property weblog. “All the things O’Neil ever did appears as if it belonged there; as if it developed there; as if it grew out of the bottom.”
As Bentley’s abilities matured, the coed turned the grasp. And because it seems, his homes are a few of his most stunning achievements.
Perched atop a hilltop on 5.85 acres close to the Dominion, this modernist domicile has sweeping panoramic views, from the Texas Hill Nation to the San Antonio skyline.
Contained in the four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house, partitions of home windows body the vista completely beneath 18-foot-high vaulted ceilings. Pure mild spills onto native hardwood flooring all through.
Like the opposite nice masters of San Antonio structure, Bentley has clearly thought out each element on this construction, inserting an emphasis on the purity of operate as magnificence.
Twin main suites — one on every degree — supply the choice of multi-generational dwelling, with the one upstairs opening onto a balcony with a panoramic view.
However, actually, there isn’t any scarcity of views with this property — to make sure, the views are the primary attraction. The panorama, clearly the fulcrum of each design determination, will also be loved from a resort-style pool, scorching tub and a number of ranges of decks.
Like many Mid-Century Trendy and Prairie-style architects in Texas and past, Bentley locations an emphasis on working in concord with the pure world.
This consists of the Texas-native white oak chosen for the flooring and double vainness within the spa-like en suite toilet, the place much more views of nature could be loved from a soaking tub. It additionally extends to the xeriscaped grounds, which provide low-maintenance tranquility because of a synchronicity with nature, fairly than preventing in opposition to it.
Lastly, the zen-like emphasis on nature can skilled within the inside courtyard, which makes nature the guts of the house.
This house is listed by Blake Foote with Compass RE Texas LLC – Austin.All photographs and itemizing information by way of Realtor.com.
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