Homes...
Shangri-La
A repeat of a Denver Eye favorite:
The Harry Huffman Mansion, designed 1938 by Raymond Harry Ervin. A mix of Art Deco and Streamline Modern, it was designed to mimic the mansion from Frank Capra’s film, Lost Horizon.
Lost Horizon (1937)
Ervin’s design may even be superior to the original!
July 24th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Mass House
Butterfly roof on the International-style Mass House in Arapahoe Acres. Designed
1951 by Eugene Sternberg.
July 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Menkick House
The Menkick House near Green Rock in Boulder, designed 1970 by Charles Haertling.
July 20th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian roof feature
This Usonian roof feature with a tree piercing the roofline is from the Spivak House in
Arapahoe Acres in Englewood. Designed 1955 by Ed Hawkins and Joseph Dion
(I presume)
July 16th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian roofline
Usonian roofline from this house in Arapaho Hills in Littleton, probably built in the early 1960s.
July 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian entranceway
Entranceway to a Usonian house in the mountains of Golden, house probably from the late-1950s
July 14th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Goodbye Mauro house
I went to Applewood yesterday to take a better photo of the unique Mauro House,
a Formalist design from 1969, but it was gone. Torn down for new construction.
July 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Brenton House
Streetside view of the 1969 mushroom-shaped Brenton House by Charles Haertling,
also in the mountains of Boulder.
June 29th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Johnson House
Streetside view of the 1976 passive-solar Johnson House by Charles Haertling in the
mountains of Boulder.
June 28th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
A few mountain mod a-frames
Photos taken through the trees… variations of the mountain-mod A-Frame home.
This first one is on Lookout Mountain in Golden.
The rest of these are from the mountains of Boulder.
All of these homes were likely built in the 1960s/early ’70s.
June 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Ed Hawkins design
This modernist home in the Park Hill area was designed by Ed Hawkins, in the late ’40s, I believe.
Hawkins went on to build the majestic Arapahoe Acres.
May 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
International-style house
International-style house on Colorado Blvd, late-1940s (I presume)
May 25th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Cherry Hills modern
A modernist home in Cherry Hills, from the mid-1960s, I believe.
May 18th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Winter is over
Winter is over, so let’s take a last Winter look at Shangri-La in the snow.
Raymond Harry Ervin designed this mansion in 1938 to look like the sanctuary in the original film version of Lost Horizon.
May 17th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Mountain modern
The roofline works well against the sightline of the ridge in this mountainside modern home in Boulder, probably built in the mid-1960s.
May 8th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
