A post-and-beam style home by architect Calvin Straub in Pasadena, C.A. comes to market for $2.98 million with three bedrooms and more.
Mid-century modern fans, get your wallets ready. A post-and-beam style home by architect Calvin Straub is on the market in Southern’s Poppy Peak Historic District, a small neighborhood known for its number and variety of modernist homes by top architects like Richard Neutra and James Pulliam. Straub, a former USC professor, was commissioned to build the house—now listed for $2.98 million—by Thomas and Barbara Wirick. Nate Cole and Lilian Pfaff of Modern California House hold the listing.
Straub designed the three-bedroom home just ahead of joining forces with former students Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman to create the renowned architectural firm. The project is credited as a definitive achievement in residential post and beam architecture by the National Registry of Historic Places. Houses constructed in this method pair together large, spaced-out wooden posts and beams to create its frame, which then supports its walls and roofing.
The home’s entrance is on the upper level, where an adjoining office and sitting area are featured alongside the lofted primary suite. The primary bedroom overlooks the double-height living and dining area below, which is highlighted by extensive glazing and slender structural framing, but close the curtains for privacy before stepping into the en-suite bath with a freestanding tub.
A courtyard patio outside the living room is surrounded by lush foliage and, off the kitchen, a large wooden deck hangs over the hillside below mature trees. Updates to the abode’s electrical and plumbing systems, as well as structural retrofitting, have been completed in recent years. And as a final perk: as part of the Poppy Peak Historic District, the property benefits from a Mills Act contract that provides owners with reduced property taxes.
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