Michelle Hotchkiss, real estate agent and mid-century fiend, has square feet and a nose for great property. Each issue she brings us her pick of properties for sale.
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Listed by: Long Realty
Where it is: On five acres deep inside the eastside Indian Ridge subdivision.
The damage: $649,000
You'll love it because: This 1930's desert estate draws its design from early modernist international style. It's significant because it's so different for its era. Over to Demion Clinco, president of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation: "Attributed to architect Richard Morse, the sophisticated progressive simplified design is a departure from the Spanish and Pueblo Revival styles fashionable in Tucson between the First and Second World Wars. The clean lines, corner windows and streamlined massing of this chic modernist retreat is one of only a handful of pre‑WWII modernist projects. Morse's work was influenced by the European Modern movement and Bauhaus," says Demion.
Here comes the but: This property needs a preservation-minded buyer who will restore the home to its former glory and the fabulous estate it could be. Money needs to be spent on landscaping, and restoring the drained pool.
Read more about Michelle, a RE/MAX Catalina Foothills Realty agent, at Atomic Tucson.
Photo by Ray Albright
Photo by Ray Albright
Photo by Ray Albright
still for sale! hard to arrange showings, any preservation minded buyers that want a stunning property out there?