Yowza.
Even though this blog is about middle-class mid-century homes – it’s hard not to salivate over the moneybags mansions.
Click through to see 22 photographs of this fantastic house, you will be glad you did!
This 5,300 s.f. vintage home in Des Moines features the ORIGINAL FURNITURE even — everything is from 1965.
Talk about a time capsule.
On the market for the first time for $1.3 million and worth every penny. You can buy it from Iowa Realty.
The listing agent is HollyCraiger@IowaRealty.com
Spotted by Shawna in Des Moines. It’s beyond words beautiful – and offers us lots of great ideas for colors, lighting, materials, furniture.
Shawna writes:
Hi Pam!
Love the blog. It’s been a great resource for us. We recently purchased a 1958 one-owner blond brick ranch, and love the ideas shared here.
I really enjoy when you share retro home listings. Here’s a local home built in 1963 that I thought you might appreciate.
I will send some pics and the story of our home…we’ve got a fridge that you might meet your approval. We aren’t mid-century purists. However, we do love our home and feel a responsibility to maintaining its history.
…Meanwhile, Shawna also sent along a link a story on the house in the Des Moines Register.
According to the newspaper, the house was built by W.T. Dahl, the son of a South Dakota grocer, and his wife Edna. Dahl opened his first store in 1931 on the east side of Des Moines. By 1948, he was building his first Dahl’s supermarket in the city at the corner of Beaver and Franklin avenues. He died at the age of 97 in June 2006. Edna died a year later. She was 98. Much of the style reflects Edna’s interests and tastes. She completed more than 500 paintings over the course of her life.
Thank you so much for spotting this, Shawna. We want to see your house, too — as we are liking Des Moines a lot.
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if i could move to iowa, i may rob a bank to get the 1.3 million…..
jen
Wow! It’s amazingly gorgeous. I definitely wish I had the dough to afford it. I would snap it up in a heartbeat.
You’re very welcome! I think this house is amazing and just had to share. De-lurking thanks to the Dahl’s house.
It’s much grander living than I’ll ever aspire to, but it provides some great ideas. The kitchen is especially drool-worthy.
Our home is definitely a work in progress, but I’ll send along some pictures sometime soon.
This is truly incredible.
Holy cow! What a beautiful place. My favorite place to hang out would be that little table in the pool. But I really think I could be pretty happy anywhere in this house. Thanks for sharing, Shawna.
Hey – that’s my fav house in Des Moines, too! I posted it on my site, Gussied Up (http://gussiedup.squarespace.com/gussied-up/2008/4/21/aw-heck-ill-take-it.html), but sent the photos out to my blogspot site since there were so many. It’s such a great home. We’re lucky here that there are so many one-owner midcenturys available still – going fast, tho!
Love your site, BTW!
Hi Gussied Up. That is some weird openid sign on you’ve got going…Just thought you should know.
If I had a sudden financial windfall…
Forget Disney World –
I’m moving to Des Moines!
That’s so amazing. I’d move back to Iowa if I could afford that.
BTW, it’d be great if you did something different with the rest of the images that appear as thumbnails below the main story and images. Clicking them takes you to a web page for a small version of that image, then you much click that to bring up a bigger one. Just have the thumbnails link right to the fullsize image, not a web page. It’d make it so much easier for your readers.
Hi Tut, welcome and thanks for your comments. The post you are reading uses a former image-loading technology, and what you are experiencing is a limitation. Now though – I use a new program that’s much more user-friendly. Sorry, but it would be really time consuming to re-do all the old ones…need to click twice!
This house is to die for.
Such a beautiful setting, too.
I’ll send photos of my humble abode in about a year, when it’s a little more presentable looking!