Mushroom-shaped hippie house is on the market in Texas. The price is trippin’
A very unique piece of architecture is on the market near Austin, Texas – if you consider unique and “weird” to be roughly the same.
A house shaped like a mushroom that rests on Lake Travis just outside of Austin is on the market for $2.2 million, according to the listing on Grossman & Jones. The iconic 2,240-square-foot home known as The Sand Dollar House was designed in 1979 by Austin architect John Covert Watson, who was the protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright, the listing said.
“Organic modern architecture, the house is made of steel and gunite with sleek white curved walls throughout,” the listing said. “It was designed for the artist Eugenia Hunt as a second home and has been admired for decades by all who pass by it on the lake and look up in wonder.”
The three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house offers generous views of the cerulean blue of Lake Travis through custom windows and balconies while the inside sports a “fireplace that mimics a kiva (a ceremonial chamber)” that projects a nice level of comfort, Culture Map Austin says.
The kitchen area lives up to the hippie, free love name of the park the house calls home, with its accented blue tiles and wooden cabinets. One of the bathrooms also echoes this sentiment with a greenish tile marking nearly the entire surface of the room.
“This house is iconic,” the owner of the home, Liz Bradford, told Austin360.com in August. “To me, it’s probably the most iconic house on the lake. You can’t miss it.”
This story was originally published September 29, 2020 at 5:42 PM.