The Sculptured House, also known as the Sleeper House, is a distinctive elliptical curved house built on Genesee Mountain in 1963 by architect Charles Deaton. It is featured prominently in the 1973 Woody Allen sci-fi comedy Sleeper.
Video Sculptured House
Background
Architect Charles Deaton has described his inspiration for the house: "On Genesee Mountain I found a high point of land where I could stand and feel the great reaches of the Earth. I wanted the shape of it to sing an unencumbered song."
Maps Sculptured House
Construction
The Deaton-designed house was built in 1963. Delzell Inc. was the original builder of the house on an experimental permit. Clifford M. Delzell, the owner/operator of Delzell Inc. Deaton ran out of money before the house was finished, so it was never inhabited by the designer. The interior of the Sculptured House went largely unfinished and was vacant for almost three decades until entrepreneur and one-time Denver, Colorado economic-development chief John Huggins purchased the house in 1999. He built a large addition designed by Deaton with Nick Antonopoulos before Deaton's death in 1996, and commissioned Deaton's daughter Charlee to design the interior, completed in 2003. The house covers 7700 square feet over 5 levels, with 5 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms, along with a state of the art kitchen and top level master suite.
In 2006, fellow Denver entrepreneur Michael Dunahay purchased the house from Huggins. By late 2010, Dunahay had become delinquent on the nearly $2.8 million outstanding balance of his $3.1 million mortgage on the house, and the Public Trustee in Jefferson County, Colorado scheduled a foreclosure auction for November 10, 2010, where it was sold for $1.5 million. The house was sold again in November 2010.
In the media
- "At Home, 2001" episode of The 21st Century, hosted by Walter Cronkite (CBS, 1967)
- Sleeper (Woody Allen film, 1973)
- Livin' Large (MTV, 2003)
- American Guns (Discovery, 2011)
- Extreme Cribs (MTV, 2011)
- Home Strange Home (HGTV, 2012)
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Colorado
References
External links
- Forbes - Sleeper House
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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