Stunning 1940s Pacific Northwest home designed by famous architect lists for $1.7M

A historical location successful nan Forest Park suburb of Portland, Oregon, has been put connected nan marketplace for $1.7 million.

This 2,429-square-foot home, known arsenic nan Joss House, was built successful 1941 and listed by Marisa Swenson of Modern Homes Collective earlier this year.

The uncommon four-bedroom two-bathroom spot was designed by Pietro Belluschi - a legendary designer who brought 'elegant modernism' into his designs, according to nan listing.

This secluded hideaway successful nan Pacific Northwest was made pinch 'locally originated materials' and features an updated room and bathrooms on pinch its 1940s charm.

The three-story location is connected a astir one-acre batch and is surrounded by plentiful maple trees and daffodils.

Belluschi grew up successful Ancona, Italy, and served successful nan Italian subject during World War I, according to the US Commission of Fine Arts.

He earned a doctorate successful civilian engineering from nan University of Rome and continued his studies astatine Cornell University aft moving to nan US.

Belluschi moved to Portland successful 1925 and worked nether legendary designer AE Doyle for 17 years.

During that time, Philip and Mary Joss asked him to build a location connected nan hilltop pinch views of Mt Hood and Tualatin Valley for nan Joss family.

Belluschi's designs person since recovered their measurement into respective celebrated US locations, including nan Portland Art Museum and nan Pan American Building complete Grand Central Terminal successful New York.

The designer has designed different homes successful nan past, but Swenson told KOIN 6 News that uncovering 1 for waste is 'very rare.'

'We person only seen a mini fistful successful my 16 years connected nan market, and immoderate person sold disconnected of nan marketplace to buyers specifically looking for them,' Swenson said. 

The Joss' hired Belluschi because they preferred a Scandinavian artistic alternatively than Craftsman, Tudor Revival aliases Colonial style home, according to Oregon Live.

Six generations of Joss' went connected to unrecorded successful nan classical home, which has been backmost and distant connected nan existent property marketplace since past May.  

The surviving room's precocious woody ceilings pinch matching exposed beams spell awesome pinch nan hardwood level successful that room, nan eating area, and nan kitchen.

Its fireplace provides a lukewarm and cozy ambiance successful a room pinch plentifulness of earthy ray from nan doors starring to nan backyard.

Guests tin besides bask a position of nan galore trees surrounding nan 1940s spot successful nan eating area, which is adjacent to nan surviving room and updated kitchen.

The room features modern appliances and amenities implemented by Hammer & Hand - a patient that consists of Pacific Northwest’s 'trusted high-performance builders.'

Its built-in cabinets and shelves radiance successful nan earthy ray provided by nan windows supra nan sink.

Other notable improvements successful nan room see nan creation of a mini model spot and nan summation of a rustic Dutch door. 

Before stepping up to nan precocious level, guests tin find aggregate built-in bookshelves that lucifer nan ceiling and surviving room walls. 

Like nan kitchen, some of nan home's bathrooms were upgraded to modernize nan classical 1940s-style home.

The upper-level bath features a classical walk-in ablution adjacent to a descend beneath much earthy light.

Its woody beams supra nan ablution lucifer those of 1 of nan 4 bedrooms successful nan house.

The freely maestro chamber connecting to 1 of nan bathrooms includes woody beams that lucifer those recovered successful nan surviving room and kitchen.

Its windows supply a awesome woody of earthy ray and springiness imaginable homeowners and guests a clear position of nan outdoors.

According to nan listing, nan L-shaped home's precocious level besides has a 'unique vent system.'  

The quaint backyard features a mini platform that is cleanable for a seating area correct extracurricular nan surviving room.

The mini outdoor sitting area is besides located conscionable beneath nan roof, meaning guests and imaginable homeowners tin bask shadiness connected a sunny day.

Visitors who locomotion astir nan little level of nan location will find retention abstraction and features, including retention abstraction pinch laundry facilities.

They tin besides find a detached double-car car shed pinch an other area that tin beryllium utilized for retention aliases arsenic a mini workshop.