The Hundertwasserhaus (of Hundertwasserhaus) has become a cultural landmark not just in Vienna where it is located, but for the entire country of Austria.  This is despite the property only being built in the early 1980’s.  The building was the brainchild of academic architects, Professor Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan who conceived a property made of deliberately, uneven floors and living materials forming part of the structure and fabric of the house.

The house is actually composed of several apartments and office units and is named after the artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who donated his design and time for free because he did not wish for an ugly building to be built instead.  The home has a roof constructed from earth and grass with trees planted inside the building and constituent rooms with the tree branches extending to the outside through windows build around them.  The Hundertwasserhaus is one of the most visited buildings in the whole of Austria.

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There is no running water or electricity, but the property, which sat at the end of the private, muddy road about 300 yards from his closest neighbor, is listed for $69,500. It does not include his house, a cabin, which has been removed and is now on display in Washington, DC in the Newsuem.

The property is listed by John Pistelak Realty of Lincoln, Montana and he offers an obviously secluded, one of a kind, piece of infamous US History.

The land is forested, with tall trees and a chain link fence topped by barbed wire. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? There is a tree with FBI carved into it; no one knows why, just part of the charm of the place.

When called about the property, Pistelak would not comment on the property and later would not return any phone calls.

Ted Kaczynski is in a maximum security prison in Colorado serving a life sentence for killing three people and injuring 23 more. He is Harvard educated and a mathematician to boot and during 1978 and 1995 was on a big mail bombing spree. He was protesting advanced technology. He caused law enforcement the country’s most expensive and longest manhunt.

His own brother turned him in to the law in 1996.

Kaczynski was at his cabin in Lincoln, Montana when he was captured in April, 1996. In 1998 he plead guilty. He was named the Unabomber because some of his targets were collage scholars.  It stands for University and Airline Bomber.

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The house is located one acre of wooded land in Highland Park, IL, and is over 5000 square feet.  It has four bedrooms, 4 baths, and a heated and cooled garage.

Remember the car?  With the crashing out the….HA!  So, don’t do that.

This is the kitchen.  None of the listings say what kind of appliances it has, etc.  That could be because the house was built in 1953.  Who knows?  The kitchen might not have been updated.  That’s not always a bad thing.  You don’t have to undo a bunch of renovations that aren’t your taste.  But, for the purposes of this article, who cares?  I’m not trying to sell this house, I’m just trying to tell you about it and show you pictures.  So, here are some more pictures.

The bathroom.

The dining room.

The entrance.

Another exterior shot.

The office.  Nice view, eh?

A view of the pylons that hold the house suspended over the forest.

The spacious open floor plan.

More of the spacious open floor plan.

The house was designed by an architect named A. James Speyer.  Speyer graduated from Carnegie Tech in 1934, and he thought most of the architecture in the US was boring, so he went and spent 3 years in Europe.  He came back to the US and did a little more schooling before he started designing buildings in America.  He designed this post’s feature home for Ben Rose.  I don’t know anything about him, but his family lived in the home until very recently.

The garage addition was designed by Speyer’s student David Haid, who reportedly wasn’t a super nice guy.  But whatever.  It’s a pretty cool garage.

The house costs about $1.7 million dollars.  That’s a pretty good bargain for that size house in that part of Illinois, all things considered.  Actually, that’s a lie.  But it still isn’t as expensive as it was when they first listed it at $2.1 million dollars.

The entire property is 9 acres, and juts out into the Cohasset Harbor on the coast of Massachusetts.  On that nine acres rests a 20,000 square foot private residence, an inn called The Cohasset Harbor Inn, two restaurants (the Atlantica and the Olde Salt House), and the Mill River Marina.

The house was built in 1850, but the original structure came down in 1931 or so.  The current house was built right away, and probably finished in the mid 1930s.  Mr. and Mrs. Roy did many improvements, including a renovation of the kitchen, all of the outbuildings, the addition of a roof deck, and the addition of a pond.

The Great Room (seen above) was added in 2006 and opens into the new kitchen, also renovated during that time.  The room has panoramic views of the harbor and an advanced entertainment system.  The room also has a wet bar, an alderwood cross-beamed ceiling, and many other lovely features.  I sound like a realtor.  I swear I’m not being paid to sell this house.  I’m just super impressed with it.  I’ll keep my commentary to a minimum from now on, I swear.

The kitchen.  Nice, huh?  You get a workout WHILE you cook dinner.

Frank Sinatra hung out in here.  No kidding.

I hope there are more books on the other side of the room, otherwise this isn’t much of a library, folks.

I hope there’s a service elevator somewhere…

The side yard.  For when you absolutely must play chess with pieces as big as yourself ala Harry Potter.

The marina.

A table at one of the restaurants.

All in all, I think you get a lot of bang for your buck for $55 mil, if you want a whole inn, marina, house, and two restaurants.  I don’t think the $55 mil includes people to work at all those places for you, so you might be kinda busy.

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A “junker” since childhood, Crow is all about vintage flea market finds and Americana.  We learned all this from a recent article in Elle online, and that’s also where we got the pictures, in case you wondered.

Hallway

Kitchen

Bathroom

Sitting Room

Despite Crow’s penchant for collecting, the space is airy and open.  She works with an architect – Elizabeth Roberts – to find the proper place for all her flea market finds.

This fantastic New York loft is not Crow’s primary residence – that’s in Nashville and has MUCH more space (it is a farm) but she and Wyatt have fun visiting New York, and it’s awfully nice to have a place there to call home.

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First off, there’s the exterior.  It’s hard to believe that it used to be a standard post-war California bungalow, because this house’s exterior is the furthest thing from that.  It’s totally black, with a barrel-curved roof (and of course, the ceiling inside is curved as well) and it looks very, I don’t know, black and barrel-like.  And shiny.

Well, shiny in parts.  The original listing said that the “rock musician” took advantage of the Southern California weather, and Farrell has always been a bid of an environmentalist, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this dark exterior has something to do with solar heat and a wicked-efficient indoor heating and cooling setup.  In addition, there is also one whole wall that slides open (like a sliding glass door) so that the indoors can incorporate some outdoors.  There is also a rooftop deck.

The first floor of the house features an open floor plan.

Open floor plan with a barrel ceiling

The master bath has a sunken tub (and by sunken we mean directly in the floor) and cool floating sinks.  Two vanities are key, no matter if you’re a rock star or not.

The property also features a three-car garage, a rock and cactus garden.  One drawback?  Laundry in the garage.  Even the wives of rock stars (and the rock stars themselves) have to schelp to the garage to do the wash.

Either way, it’s a pretty cool house, and I bet you’re sorry you didn’t know to save up $1.425 million to buy it.  Oh well.  Maybe next time.

Do you like learning about celebrity homes?  If so, I’d be happy to find some more for you.  Comment below!