A home once owned by legendary slugger Henry ‘Hank’ Greenberg has hit the market. The house—a Case Study project build dating to 1958—is currently offered with an asking price of $9.5 million.
Alternately known as the Fields House, or Case Study House #18 (2), the home on Miradero features four bedrooms and 3.5 baths within 3,385 square feet of living space. A pre-fab home originally, the property was given a defining renovation in the early nineteen-sixties.
The façade of the home is now rendered in a pleasingly antiquated, somewhat rash contrast of warm and cool tones. Curiously, the segmented motor court before the boxy modern-influenced design is centered by a 19th-century style water feature.
The home’s interior spaces feature some fairly stunning craftsmanship and materials. Floors are finished in tile or stone; both are strikingly beautiful, and offer a wonderfully natural contrast to the high modern sensibilities of the home, but the earth-tone tile, which runs throughout the common living area, is marvelous, and interrupted only by a stretch of plank hardwood and the stone of the foyer/sitting room. Two of the fireplaces are rendered in natural stone, green or red-toned, picking up the exterior colors, and incorporate wrought iron into the design to further enhance the opposition, while a third is mid-century and corner-placed. Very cool.
Not sure about the engineered distressed-looking jade-green finish on the built-ins and walls of the living room, but the kitchen, rendered in cottage-style, with a raised and hipped ceiling, works well, and the ceiling gives it a good sense of expanse. The progression through the dayroom leads to a wall of glass panels which open to the property exterior, and a third fireplace, in fieldstone and with a raised hearth, give the combined rooms a heady rusticity.
The property features a guest house, which adds another bedroom to the count, and a pool with a pavilion and outdoor fireplace. The lot size extends to about 4/5 acre, with lawns and lush landscaping providing a privacy barrier for the home.
Greenberg, fondly remembered for his integrity as much as for the power in his swing, owned the house until his death in the early 1980’s. He spent much of his career with the Detroit Tigers, and finished with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
