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Ultra-cool Realtor Peter Blank (his Mile-Hi Modern team at Kentwood City Properties features exclusively mid-century modern architecture) is seeing the same burst of buyers relocating from California and Chicago that other agents report. But Blank has jet-age architecture to show them that they tend to resonate with (and find lacking in Denver’s overly-traditional neighborhoods); including a 2002 modern you can tour 1-3 p.m. today at 60 Kearney Street, just a few steps from pretty Crestmoor Park.
When she scraped the tri-level that she’d lived in on this site since 1975, Forensic psychologist Hannah Evans told her architect Jim Bershof at Oz Architecture that she wanted “a house with no secrets” – where wide-open living would blend seamlessly into the heavily treed outdoor spaces. You’ll see a home streaming with light that gathers about a central open-steel circular staircase (it doubles as a laundry chute – straight 3-story drop from master suite to laundry level), dividing living and kitchen-dining spaces.
The upstairs shows a full-circle master suite layout with elaborately appointed dressing room, sexy steam shower, and a bedroom wrapped by windows that include a big overhead skylight (Evans watched the full eclipse of the moon without leaving the covers); and to the west, a spectacular office atrium opening to a large, park-view deck.
Evans, with three big, friendly Airedales, created this as the most dog-hospitable house you’re ever going to see…rusty slate-tile floors (an Indian import!) upstairs and down; a solarium with potting bench and built-in doggy shower off the great room; and the big, attractive yard. The basement level has a large yoga studio and loads of hobby/utility space.
Blank will give a copy of chic-looking Modern in Denver magazine, showcasing mid-century styling, to every visitor today. The Oz home has three bedrooms, four baths and 5,744 square feet finished. To visit 60 Kearney at $1.65 million, from E. Sixth turn south on Monaco a half mile to First, right to Locust, and left to Southmoor Drive beside the park. From there, head west a block to Kearney, and turn right.
If you go…
WHERE: Recent (2002) mid-century modern-style home in Crestmoor Park; free copies of Modern In Denver Magazine. 60 Kearney St., Denver; from E. Sixth Ave., south on Monaco ½-mile to E. 1st Ave., right (west) half blk to Locust, left to Southmoor Drive, right to Kearney
PRICE: $1.650 million
WHEN: Today, 1-3 p.m.
PHONE: 720-849-1956 WEB: MileHiModern.com
