Bell Traps & Cesspool Crushed Stone, Sand, Gravel Block-Concrete & Light Weight Masonry Cleaners & Sealers Mortar-M, N, S, White Anchor Bolts & Clips Black Beauty Carbon Slag Cement-Type I, IA, III Reinforcing Steel & Mesh Sealing CompoundsSilica Sand & Flour Wrecking & Tamper Bars Corner & Casing Beads Metal Stud & Track Thermal & Moisture Protection Roofing Felt & Paper Granite & Other Real StoneThe living room and dining room are separated by a wide doorway with two white wooden posts. The living room has a brick and marble fireplace with a brick hearth, as well as crown molding; the dining room has built-in shelves and cabinets. The den fireplace has a beehive bread oven and a mantel with cabinet space. The large kitchen retains its original pine floors and exposed beams, juxtaposed with a six-burner Franklin gas range, a copper hood, two dishwashers, a Liebherr refrigerator and double ceramic sinks.
Next to the kitchen, there’s a wet bar, as well as a wine cooler and a cabinet with leaded-glass doors.The kitchen opens to both a screened porch and a sunroom. The screened porch overlooks the lawn and pond; the sunroom has a gas stove. Built-in bookshelves and bench seats make it an inviting place to read.One of the bedrooms, a suite with a fireplace and a bathroom, is on the first floor; the rest are upstairs. The master suite has a walk-in closet and a dressing area with a skylight. Its bathroom has a soaking tub, fir beadboard walls, custom butternut cabinets and a slate-topped vanity with double sinks. A glass door opens to a private balcony.One of the other upstairs bedrooms is a suite, too, with a walk-in closet and a sitting alcove. Two of the bedrooms have built-in cabinets and are being used as offices. The wood-frame section of the house, an addition, has solar water-heating panels. There is an attached garage.The apartment is over a 2001 post-and-beam barn with four horse stalls.
The apartment has a living room with a pitched ceiling and exposed beams. Next to this barn is an older hay barn.OUTDOOR SPACE: There’s a back porch with stone floors and an outdoor shower. The property is about one-third wooded, with large maple and oak trees, gardens around the house and a broad lawn that leads to a pond used for swimming in summer and ice skating in winter. The balance of the land is meadow and pasture, some of it fenced.CONTACT: Story Jenks and Wade Weathers, LandVest, (802) 238-1332 / (802) 238-6362; WHAT: A late-19th-century house with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms and a one-bedroom cottage SIZE: 4,677 square feet totalPRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $310SETTING: This property is on a narrow cobblestone street in German Village, a historic neighborhood just south of downtown Columbus. The neighborhood has many two- and three-story brick houses dating to the mid- and late-19th century and some warehouses that have been converted to condos. Third Street, a strip lined with cafes, bars and boutiques, is a few blocks away.
The neighborhood is also home to Schiller Park, where the Actors’ Theater of Columbus stages free Shakespeare performances during the summer.INDOORS: The three-story house was built in the late 1800s and last renovated about 15 years ago. Construction is mostly brick and stucco. The house is set back from the street behind a gate and a flagstone courtyard. Hardwood floors inside are original, while most of the other architectural details, including heavy wood doors and crown molding, are salvage. Some of the walls are exposed brick.Off the foyer, there’s a den with built-in shelves and an adjoining wet bar. The living and dining areas are part of a large room punctuated by columns. The kitchen has a beamed ceiling nearly 14 feet tall and Sub-Zero and Viking appliances. The kitchen also has a wood-burning fireplace and a large window facing a back courtyard. The sunny breakfast area has a built-in bench seat. Over the attached garage is a library. Reached by stairs from the living area, this space has a wood-burning fireplace and French doors that open to a balcony cantilevered over the front courtyard.
Two of the bedrooms are on the second floor, including the master suite, which has a steeply pitched beamed ceiling and a private balcony. The third floor has a third bedroom, as well as an office with a built-in desk and a door opening to a roof deck.The two-story brick cottage was built around the same time as the main house. It has a living room with brick walls and a fireplace, a full kitchen, a dining room, a family room, a bedroom and two bathrooms. French doors in the bedroom open to a terrace.OUTDOOR SPACE: The lot is about a fifth of an acre. The walled brick and flagstone courtyard in back has a fountain, a pergola and sitting areas under canopies of ginkgo trees, edged with garden beds.TAXES: Approximately $18,640 a yearCONTACT: Jeff Ruff and Marilyn Vutech, HER Realtors, (614) 255-0600; WHAT: A contemporary with two bedrooms and two bathrooms PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $925SETTING: Cave Creek is a town of about 5,000 people at the edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area, in the foothills of Tonto National Forest.
The town, a mix of movie-set Western buildings and sophisticated shops, is home to an organic coffee roaster and an annual pig race, horse ranches and high-end restaurants. This house is on just under six acres of high desert, off a dead-end road south of more than 2,000 acres of conservation land. Past the conservation land is national forest; hiking and biking trails are within walking distance of the property.INDOORS: The house was built in 2005 and designed by Will Bruder, the architect of the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, as well as the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and residences throughout the area. Built of stone and weathered steel, it was designed to reflect both the area’s Native American ruins and its 19th-century mining history. The house has won awards from the American Institute of Architects, as well as the Arizona Masonry Guild.The house has an asymmetrical roof, and is slightly cantilevered over a seasonal pond and creek shaded by cottonwood trees.
Floor-to-ceiling glass throughout faces desert and mountains in the distance. Many of the walls are stacked stone, a rustic material that contrasts with blond plywood ceilings and walls finished in a muted red plaster. Floors are concrete throughout.The great room has walls of windows and sliding glass doors opening to a concrete deck cantilevered over the creek. A sleek gas fireplace with a see-through hearth heats both the great room and the outdoor sitting area on the deck. Lighting includes an Ingo Maurer design resembling stacked paper bowls and a wall piece resembling a curtain by the designers Afra and Tobia Scarpa, both selected by Mr. Bruder and his wife, Louise Roman. One of the bedrooms is part of a suite with a fireplace and a walk-in closet; both bedrooms have broad views through walls of glass. There is a detached garage.OUTDOOR SPACE: The acreage is native desert, with willows, cottonwoods and saguaro. In addition to the deck, there’s a flagstone patio with a cauldron-like water feature that bubbles over and flows down stone stairs.