This estate once owned by a world famous photographer can now be yours — for $5.4M
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Ansel Adams made a deep impact on the entire photography world, and his work is still known around the globe even though he’s been gone for almost four decades. And now, a house that he lived in for years has landed on the real estate market in San Francisco, California, for $5.4 million.
The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home even has an added bonus that was monitored by Adams himself, splashing a little extra pizzazz to the property.
“Originally built in 1902 as an Arts and Crafts chalet-style home on the remote sand dunes of the city’s outside lands, the residence grew to its current day form when the grand salon annex was designed and built in 1929 under the direction of Ansel Adams and his wife,” the listing on Sotheby’s International Realty says. “The merged home became the residential seat of America’s most lauded landscape photographer until 1957 when he moved his family to the Monterey Peninsula.”
The home comes loaded with special features that grace the 3,810-square-foot interior, including:
Skylit foyer
Fireplace
Views of the Golden Gate Bridge
Outdoor living area
The main attraction is the salon Adams added, which is stunning all on its own.
“Connecting back through the foyer, one enters the home’s grand salon. With 20’ vaulted ceilings accented with architectural beams, this room is one of San Francisco’s most dramatic living rooms,” the listing describes.
“Tremendous natural light floods the room that is anchored by a full height wall of windows with garden outlooks. Accents include a grand fireplace, book casing along both sides of the room, and hardwood floors. During Adam’s ownership and the subsequent years, this room transported the spirit of the great residential salons of Europe through its life as a meeting point for the city’s artistic talents filling the room with classical music and operatic song.”
Originally, Adams was a musician who taught himself to play the piano at the age of 12, but then switched to photography in his later years and took the world by storm with his nature photographs, his biography says.
He died in 1984.
The listing is held by Joseph Lucier.
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