Gutted home is being sold as is in Arizona — but why is it listed for millions?
“Googie” is a word one doesn’t hear a great deal and sounds a little like a noise a toddler would make — but in the architecture world, it’s a futuristic blast from the past.
And one has actually popped up on the real estate market in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
What’s known as “Googie architecture,” a type of building design that’s inspired by other spacey inanimate objects like jets and cars from the future, only the architecture type was popular during the 1940s through the ‘70s. So all those buildings you see Don Draper drive by in “Mad Men”? Yep, Googie.
While this two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house is one of those very homes that look like something George Jetson would purchase, the interior is another story altogether.
Mainly because it’s not there.
“The condition is currently a shell of a house,” agent Jordan Cohen told Realtor.com. “It’s completely demoed on the inside, down to the studs. When my buyer took over, she basically started from scratch. She engaged with a new architect: His bread and butter are midcentury historic and eclectic properties. He seems like a very fitting choice to bring this property back to life.”
Which means it’s the perfect “dream project” for someone with creative vision, time and $2.395 million.
“Whoever takes this on, they [will] really want to do it right,” Cohen said to Realtor. “It could be in a magazine.”
The 2,516-square-foot home comes with stunning views of the surrounding mountains in a guard-gated community, the listing says. It was “originally designed by George Hall in 1959.”
Architect W. Brent Armstrong sketched up a model of what the home could look like if done properly, the listing notes.
Paradise Valley is about 15 miles northeast of Phoenix.
This story was originally published May 30, 2023 at 12:17 PM with the headline "Gutted home is being sold as is in Arizona — but why is it listed for millions?."