June 21, 2019/Cook Architecture /by Mid-Century Mike

Sold $35K over Asking in Holmes Run Acres

We just closed on the the Holmes Run Acres renovation by Michael Cook, AIA, of award-winning Cook Architecture. Michael transformed the original 2 bed/1 bath home into a 4 bed/2 bath 1,700 square-foot California-inspired mid-century modern space, including Heath tile and vintage lighting. It was listed for $779K and sold for $814K. Please contact us with questions about finding and renovating the perfect mid-century modern home. (Photos by John Cole.)

Originally designed by Francis Donald Lethbridge and Nicholas Satterlee, the home is located in the National Register of Historic Places-designated community of Holmes Run Acres inside the Beltway in Falls Church.

June 16, 2019/Bannockburn Bethesda MD /by Mid-Century Mike

Custom Modern in Bannockburn Co-op – $1.059 Million

If you are looking for a modernist home in Bethesda, run to see this one in Bannockburn Co-op. Offers are due Tuesday at 3 pm. This 2008 custom, ground-up build by Division 1 Architects sits on Braeburn Place, the original street in the neighborhood. The two-level home with approximately 3,600 square feet has walls of windows, double-height living room and 300-gallon aquarium and radiant heat.

Bannockburn Coop was founded in the mid-1940s by individuals who formed a housing cooperative to build homes and a community. The coop hired architects Burket, Neufeld and DeMars to further develop co-op member Mary Goldwater’s idea (She was an architect and planner.) The first two dozen homes were built on Braeburn Place. The original land, 75 acres near the Potomac, cost $193,000, which the co-op paid off in three years, according to a history of the neighborhood by Mary and Jack Herling.

June 3, 2019/Charles Goodman /by Mid-Century Mike

Charles Goodman National Homes Design in Vienna – $759K

This Charles M. Goodman-designed 1955 house on an acre in Vienna, Va., is being marketed as a tear down. Goodman designed the house for prefab home manufacturer National Homes.

A 1954 Time article on National Homes mentions Goodman, who served as a consulting architect to National Homes for five years beginning in 1953. “In his mass operation, Price has not neglected style. The 31 models in his 1955 line, now starting in production, were designed by Architect Charles M. Goodman of Washington, D.C. Says Price: ‘We can fight it out on a mass or class basis. We can provide a home for somebody who hasn’t any kind of home, or give a rich man a home where he can entertain a Rockefeller.’” The price recently dropped from $799K to $759K.

Month: June 2019