Looks like it should be good weather for checking out open houses on Sunday. My Charles Goodman listing in Hollin Hills will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. If you are looking for a Goodman in Maryland, take a look at this 2 bed/1 bath in Hammond Wood. The price has been reduced to [...]

In addition to designing homes for local developers who built signature “Goodman” communities such as Hollin Hills, River Park, Hickory Cluster, Rock Creek Woods and Hammond Wood among others, Charles Goodman also served as an architect for Lafayette, Ind.-based National Homes, which was the country’s largest prefab home manufacturer. A 1954 Time article described Jim [...]

Here’s a new listing for a 1962 barrel-roof townhome in Charles Goodman’s River Park. The end unit is listed for $394K. You can see images here. A few years before Goodman designed the aluminum-clad townhome and apartment building complex in Southwest DC, Reynolds Metals Company, which sponsored the development, published an interesting book, Aluminum in [...]

With people away at the beach, it has been a bit quiet regarding new mid-century modern listings coming on the market. We’ll see if we see the same surge after Labor Day that we saw in the spring. Here are two Charles Goodman-designed townhomes in Hickory Cluster in Reston that have come on in recent [...]

One of the most innovative of Charles Goodman’s designs in Hollin Hills was for the 1952 Unit House No. 5 model, a one-story, flat-roofed rectangular house with 3 bedroom and 1 bath. Goodman even designed a new framing system to accommodate the flat roof, according to Gregory Hunt’s chapter on the architecture of the mid-century [...]

For those looking for a mid-century modern place in the city, take a look at this newly listed Charles Goodman-designed townhouse in River Park. From the images, it is one of the nicest units I have seen. It has 3 bedroom and 1.5 bathrooms. As part of Southwest Washington’s urban renewal efforts in the late [...]

I was checking out the mid-century modern real estate forum on LottaLiving today and found this Charles Goodman Alcoa Care-Free House for sale in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Goodman designed the home in 1957 based on feedback from the 1956 Women’s Congress on Housing. With Alcoa backing the project, Goodman used aluminum in various areas of [...]

I am excited to be listing this one-of-a-kind expanded and updated Charles Goodman mid-century modern home in the award-winning community of Hollin Hills. The original 1953 Unit 5B home is at center with a central fireplace core and raised roof with clerestory windows over the bathroom. The upper-level is cantilevered over the ground level.  The [...]

Two homes by Charles Goodman in Hollin Hills came on the market this past week. This 4 bed/2 bath ranch is listed for $592K and open Sunday (May 22) while this 4 bed/2 bath two-level home is priced at $635K. I also will be having an expanded and updated (with high-end modern finishes) Goodman coming [...]