A Mid-Century Armonk Dwelling Designed by an SOM Architect

The condominium, as confirmed in itemizing photos, has a wrap-around floating terrace that helps connect the indoors to the wooded two acres it sits on.
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is identified for its modernist mid-century workplace towers savor Lever Condominium and the graceful skyscrapers it places up all the diagram thru the sector. It’s not a apply that most folk would associate with a suburban single family home. But Arthur Witthoefft, an architect there, built a preference of Global Model houses in Westchester, including his have condominium and this five-bedroom, five-bath home at 9 Tallwoods Aspect freeway in Armonk, which factual listed for $3.275 million.

The circular fireplace, as confirmed in itemizing photos, sits one day of an initiating floorplan, with the bedrooms down a pitcher-walled hall.
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The Armonk five-bedroom, built in 1963, is remarkably well-preserved — the itemizing, held by Compass broker Brian Milton, says it’s handiest traded fingers twice in its 52-year history. Though it seems to beget been on the market reasonably lately — in 2019. It’s unclear if it supplied then or not. In any event, it doesn’t seem to beget suffered any heavy-handed renovations since then.

The Armonk condominium sits on a trim landscaped lot, as confirmed in itemizing photos, within the identical Westchester suburb the put the architect had built his have home a pair of years earlier.
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The condominium is mountainous, at 5,000 square toes, and located on a wooded, landscaped two acres, with a heated driveway and garage. Within the model of the period, it blends the indoors and outdoors with floor-to-ceiling windows on both facet and a domed atrium that lights the interior of the condominium.  Upstairs, every of the bedrooms and toilets initiating out onto the wraparound terrace that seems to float on both floor of the condominium and expands staunch into a rounded patio on the ground floor. The principle residing home is initiating conception, with the true, circular fireplace, and there could be a series of bedrooms off a hall that is glass on one facet. The decrease level, down a spiral stair, has a recreation room and guest suite that thought as mountainous and polished because the rooms upstairs. A few of the finishes, in particular within the bedrooms, whose walls vary from gentle to murky grey, might well perchance not be to every purchaser’s model (there could be one thing corporate within the sparkling laminate surfaces of the kitchen, among other interior affect choices), but that’s not in particular complex to alternate. (Witthoefft’s have lately restored home in Armonk is elephantine of brilliant, pleased colours.) And other functions, savor the main bath with boxy twin sinks and a Japanese soaking tub, are model of delightfully retro.

Armonk, a Westchester suburb, is handiest a pair of forty five minute mosey back and forth from Lengthy island. While Westchester now has a preference of valuable mid-century houses on wooded a lot savor this one, when Witthoefft built his condominium, a pair of years earlier than this one, mid-century in model architecture turned into the form of rarity in Armonk that the neighbors interestingly realizing it turned into going to be a motel.

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