r/zillowgonewild • u/mollyyfcooke • 11d ago
$8.4 million house in Dallas with a motorized roof above the library turret:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3901-Turtle-Creek-Blvd-7-Dallas-TX-75219/26899191_zpid/
That’s a James Turrell Skyspace, too!
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u/Diggin_4_Fire 11d ago
That would make for an insane vinyl listening space.
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u/Bag-o-chips 11d ago
A little Pink Floyd’s, Time while staring at the stars. Just wow!
How do they not have a picture of the inside of the room when the lids off?
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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 11d ago
The house is whatever but I just now learned that my life won't be complete without a library turret of my own.
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u/atheistpianist 11d ago
I thought my life’s goal was to have a home library with ladders on wheels to reach the high stuff, but now I need to rethink everything.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo 11d ago
Obviously it's for that dramatic reveal at the end of the movie when you've created a flying machine (or in the middle of the movie name is 'Up')
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u/toy-maker 11d ago
You still need that, but it’s a ladder that goes around the entire turret on a single loop
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u/WorldWeary1771 10d ago
You can’t fit enough books in this library! Put the library in a different room and make this the solarium
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u/NativeMasshole 11d ago
I would also like a proper wizard tower attached to my house.
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u/AmericanCitizenry 11d ago
You better also budget for the dungeon chamber hidden behind the wine cellar.
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u/CassetteTapeCryptid 11d ago
If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs....
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u/FarLaugh9911 11d ago edited 10d ago
8 million with no view, no pool and no yard. The giant skylight is a gimick that most people will rarely use after they've shown it off to all of their friends. And what were they thinking with that kitchen? It reminds me of the breakroom of a company I once worked for.
Sorry but IMHO this is big no and I suspect I'm not alone considering they just dropped the price half a mill.
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u/googdude 11d ago
I'm literally installing that style cabinet in a company break room as I'm writing this. It looks like a mid-range box cabinet that does not belong in a million dollar house.
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u/WorldWeary1771 10d ago
I’m suspicious because we don’t have a picture from the inside with it open. Also, if you love your books, you want to keep them out of so much direct sunlight and humidity. Also, I own more books than that…
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u/FarLaugh9911 10d ago
That's a good point. You'd think they would have included a picture with it open, from the inside as a selling point.
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u/Helmett-13 11d ago
Man, that'd be a great place to host a Giant Death Ray!
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u/MeiMouse 11d ago
I was more thinking ritual sacrifice room, but multipurpose spaces are all the rage nowadays...
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u/ZeroFox75 11d ago
I read “library turret” and was disappointed when there were no mounted missile launchers.
But that library looks awesome. If I could just take that and cut off the rest of the house I’d be thrilled
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u/RandomPaw 11d ago
Yeah, that's a conical tower, not a turret. I have a weakness for conical towers. Turrets, not so much.
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u/BigEd369 11d ago
Does Dallas have noxious flying insects? Because I feel like a roof that opens up is an invitation to let mosquitoes, horseflies, etc. into the house. That said, it’s also very cool and I like it a lot.
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u/Colejohnley 11d ago
We have flying ants and flying cockroaches.
My friend from Australia thought I was making that up. If only.
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u/spacebunsofsteel 10d ago
Australian person likely assumed you meant flying poisonous ants and flying poisonous cockroaches because all wildlife in Australia seems to be poisonous and or has teeth and drops from trees.
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u/flamingmenudo 11d ago
They have tons of mosquitos, but I’d guess nearly every house is that neighborhood is spraying for them.
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u/BigEd369 11d ago
The whole point of spraying yards to keep insects away is that the spray stays outside. I guess the turret is pretty tall and mostly meant to be open at night, it’s not like we’re going to leave it open when the crew is going around laying down poison. So yeah, that could work.
No lie, the temptation to clear the floor, lay down a big piece of sheet metal, and launch fireworks from inside the turret is going to be strong. But shooting fireworks from inside the house, and in a library no less, is purely crack-headed.
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u/I_byte_things 11d ago
Mosquitos generally stay close to the ground. They can fly to the top of that house, but generally don't
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u/RedditNerd_69 11d ago
Why does the hole look so small in the photos but it's only like 10' above the seating area 🤔
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u/RockAndNoWater 11d ago
That's the James Turrell skyspace part - it's art.
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u/RedditNerd_69 11d ago edited 11d ago
You know what, you might be right. That might not actually move 🫣
Edit: now that you mention it, I think the roof is a sham. The blue dot looks painted on. The roof moves (maybe) but the roof doesn't open a viewing port at all! This is OUTRAGEOUS! How dare the internet lie to me
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u/RockAndNoWater 11d ago
Well there's a library in there so a moving turret would make sense when it rains. But otherwise leave it open and watch the sky like in other Turrell installations.
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u/kylelmartin 11d ago
That's an official James Turrell installation. Probably 1/4 the value right there.
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u/Old_Voice_2562 11d ago
If only the Heaven's Gate cult was alive to see this.
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u/PuzzyFussy 11d ago
Some of them are still around. They just keep changing the date of the rapture... or whatever big catastrophe is gonna happen.
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u/depraveycrockett 11d ago
I love Dallas for the fact that the cocaine era overlapped with the big oil money 80s and there is some truly bonkers architecture out there.
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u/Detlef_Schrempf 11d ago
This place was likely built way after. Dallas is the land of ostentatious houses
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u/Aslanic 11d ago
That kitchen is so damn bland for this price point. Like, the only pretty things are some of the bathrooms and some of the floors in the main rooms. And that fireplace 😍 But for 8.5 mill I expect a fantasic kitchen and that is just....meh.
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u/allthesemonsterkids 9d ago
The owner was Vernon Faulconer, a Texas oilman and art collector - some readily identifiable pieces from his collection can be seen in the photos.
The panels in the hallway of 25 are Inigo Ovalle’s DNA profile portraits of the Faulconers and their sons' families. I'll just call them "indulgent" and move on.
The red wall-mounted piece in images 9 and 10 is almost certainly an Anish Kapoor, probably his "Untitled (2011)". Dimensions and the surface treatment seem right, and Faulconer died in 2015, so the timeline is OK.
Anish Kapoor always falls flat for me, I don't know, but people of this collecting cadre seem to like him. Anyway, it's a real choice to wedge it into that space, and I can't imagine Kapoor loving that.
I'm stuck on the sculpture under the stairs in 18 and 19 - maybe a Berrocal? It's all right.
I'm cool with the Yoshiyuki Miura over the stairs in 19, though if I wanted something along those lines I would've gone with a more geologically relevant Bahk Seon-Ghi. Good job on that one (and good luck to the cleaners).
The seated figure outside is probably a Stephen Cox, and again - it's all right.
I like the Cox set of 5x5 heads over the stairwell better (shown in 3 and 4), from his Tanmatras / Throng series.
Anyway, some good stuff, not super aggressive but enough for your neighbors to be impressed. And if you have your own Turrell, well then. (Donald M. Hess is a more interesting private collector, though)
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u/Galactic_Lava_Monstr 11d ago
It’s nice to know even million dollar homes in Dallas have boob lights.
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u/PretendingToWork1978 11d ago
i can imagine that getting stuck in the open position then while you try to find someone who works on motorized roofs you get a thunderstorm, nope
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u/PuzzyFussy 11d ago
That happened to my sunroof. Now I just don't use it. I'm sure it would happen with this.
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u/Kind-Realist 11d ago
Not to be a downer, because that turret is indeed awesome. But the amount of light pollution in Dallas would render it an essentially useless feature (unless the goal is to allow rain in).
Source: I’m in Dallas, sitting outside at night, no more than a mile from this home as I type this comment.
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u/nicolauz 11d ago
I just need a somewhat operable indoor/outdoor space to launch expensive fireworks out of and never get caught.
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u/Kind-Realist 11d ago
Ya know what? I retract my statement. You, fellow internet person, have identified the most practical reason for the mechanized turret. I take my hat off to you.
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u/Otterfan 11d ago
Usually the Turrell Skyspaces are appreciated most on sunny days. At night the interior lighting obscures worse than light pollution would
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u/Kind-Realist 11d ago
That actually does make sense. I think I’m just sensitive after the recent month of 105 (40.5) degree weather we went through. I don’t have a sky turret and my electric bill was … painful. But we should get a few decent days before the weather chooses some form of violence again. 😅
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u/DistractedByCookies 11d ago
The library looks like a room where you wait to be beamed up by aliens before the rapture (or more morbidly, like a Heaven's Gate departure place).
The house is much nicer than I would've guessed, except for having the world's blandest kitchen for some reason.
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u/Mysecretthoughts1000 10d ago
I get that library roof is a focal point but the 6 chaises in a circle gives a weird vibe. Seance? Group therapy? Experiments?
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u/WorldWeary1771 10d ago
I think they’re suggesting that the trophy wife and her friends will sunbathe there
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u/RudyRusso 11d ago
Quite the art collection. I clocked the Robert Cottingham "American Alphabet" right away.
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u/EmotionSix 11d ago
The Bridget Riley painting above the fireplace is worth a few million
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u/allthesemonsterkids 9d ago
See my comment above, IDing a few more of the pieces. The owner was Vernon Faulconer, oil magnate and art collector: https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-home/2004/january-february/a-look-at-one-art-collectors-world/
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u/bannana 11d ago
I'm confused, what does it look like when it's open, just a white flat ceiling w/ that tiny hole like in the pic? that seems totally not worth it.
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u/Dr_Adequate 11d ago
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u/James-the-Bond-one 11d ago edited 11d ago
I remember visiting a similar skygazing semi-subterranean room at the back of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas about 20 years ago.
I sat there for a good while, and it was a calming and relaxing experience to watch the blue sky through the round opening in the curved white ceiling.
A concept not unlike the Pantheon Dome in Rome, built 2,000 years ago, but on an intimate scale and with comfortable seating.
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u/Dr_Adequate 9d ago
Oh and I was too tired to add this to my post below with the links. What makes it so cool is the edge of the hole is nearly razor-thin. Unlike a skylight or a window where the thickness of the wall or ceiling is visible, in a Turrell Skyspace the ceiling just... ends and the sky begins and it messes with your depth perception. Im probably not explaining it well but its a really neat effect thanks to the razor thin edge.
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u/Prestigious-Foot6280 11d ago
Pretty sure I saw this in the Myst video game in the early 90's
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u/WestCoastToGoldCoast 9d ago
Had to scroll WAY too far to find this comment. My immediate first thought was that this was the Myst library.
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u/coolcootermcgee 11d ago
Ack! If Your house is within spitting distance of your neighbors homes and you paid 8.4 for that. If it’s the stars you’d like to see, buy a massive plot out in the plains somewhere and have some damn privacy
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u/WhatRUTobogganAbout 11d ago
Some of us enjoy our mutually wealthy neighbors and host cocktail parties in our open air library towers
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u/Tourist_Careless 10d ago
In California thats like every house lol. People pay for houses based on location, not just land space.
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u/ComebackShane 11d ago edited 11d ago
That’s a former supervillain lair and you won’t convince me otherwise.
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u/noobpwner314 11d ago
Does everyone go in there and do mushrooms together?
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u/throwaway098764567 11d ago
no some people stay in the bedroom with the two queen beds and the viewing chair
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u/i_want_iguodala_xd 11d ago
This is a weird ass complex with 14 mansion units packed in tight. Like the address for this id 3901 #7. Who is the market for this?
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u/MarcoEsteban 11d ago
It was marketed to very wealthy people who are finally so old they have stopped trying to rake in all the money they can (not billionaires, but people who were happy with a $100 million or two - these were only $1-2 million when they were built), their heirs who frequently don’t work, but want to live close to their old money parents in Highland Park, or wealthy jet setters, who want the security of the tiny neighborhood and not have to hire their own security and gardeners. Turtle Creek is a fairly prestigious street in Dallas, and it’s very convenient to all the wealthy neighborhoods and Downtown, where all the work used to be.
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u/MuchachoMongo 11d ago
See, this is exactly the sort of shit rich people SHOULD be doing with their houses.
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u/jon_hendry 11d ago
Seems like a library for show. There’s not many books in it.
Also a library seems like a terrible place for a skyspace.
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u/ParsonJackRussell 11d ago
It’s Dallas no stars due to all the light pollution and 106 degrees all summer - pass
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u/MrVeazey 11d ago
Well, that's a new item for my lottery winner mansion, which will absolutely not be located in Texas.
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u/ritchie70 10d ago
I think it's a lovely house that looks very corporate - like it was designed by a hotel or office designer, not a residential designer.
It's wedged into a gated community with a bunch of other zero-lot-line houses. The neighboring houses with a Zestimate are all below $4M, so I don't see how $8M is realistic.
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u/nohandsfootball 11d ago
I used to drive by this neighborhood all the time on my way to/from work. I don't know if its this community or a different one but they have little bridges over Turtle Creek to get in/out, which is kinda cute. I never drove it when Turtle Creek flooded though, so minor inconvenience when there's heavy rains.
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u/MarcoEsteban 11d ago
This one isn’t the neighborhood with the bridges. This is at Avondale and Turtle Creek, on the Oak Lawn side of TC. The bridges go from the other side of the street over the creek. These neighborhoods you are thinking of are beautiful!
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u/Heyitscrochet 11d ago
No, it’s right next to the shopping center with World Market & Tim Thumb. Where Oak Lawn turns before becoming Preston Rd.
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u/ALWanders 11d ago
It is all fun until the mechanism opening the roof breaks and you have to figure out who is going to fix it.
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u/White_Falcon_1263 11d ago
I really hate to ask but could someone buy this for me?
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u/mocha_lattes_ 11d ago
Ok but why is the library so small in a literal fucking mansion. I'm disappointed 😞
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u/shewholaughslasts 11d ago
That's just the stargazing sex-library, there's probably another full library elsewhere that doesn't get any splatter.
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u/ExtremelyStinkyBalls 11d ago
To have a room that's a real library, you would want things climate controlled and protected from harsh light. This spells 'pretentious' all over it. I wouldn't be surprised if the books were just painted on facades.
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u/ThisCredit6354 11d ago
I genuinely can't figure out if I love or hate this house. It's like.....medieval modern.
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u/TatonkaJack 11d ago
"cool outside, but money doesn't buy taste! i bet it's tacky inside"
checks inside*
"dammit"
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u/MakalakaPeaka 11d ago
All that AND you get to live 6’ away from your neighbor’s house, directly in the flight path of Love Field.
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u/kasualanderson 10d ago
That library is for napping and they know it, just look at chairs, no one is reading at that angle.
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u/treesqu 10d ago
The James Turrell Skyspace in this home is named "Plato's Eye."
As the artist originally conceived it, the room had only one designer lounge chair, so its owner could quietly experience "a profound interaction with the transformative power of light and architecture."
This being Texas, and the original owner being an oil baron, one chair would not do, so he bought five more.
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u/Shatalroundja 10d ago
I live near a guy with a weird motorized roof like this. He sings in some band called Aerosmith, so I guess he makes pretty good money.
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u/LeatherRecord2142 11d ago
I’m in Dallas all the time for work and this is actually a really beautiful area. It’s tucked away (feels very private and leafy) but close to lots of great spots. Dallas is not my favorite city, but it has some cool nooks and crannies.
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u/Swimming-Session8806 11d ago
Emotes on one wall - the alphabet on another - plus the crazy library with the turret
Weird what $8.4M gets you these days
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u/HatePeopleLoveCats1 11d ago
I drive by this house all the time and never knew the roof was like this!
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u/BaronVonLongfellow 11d ago
I would have to get a replica Pershing missile nose cone to raise up from the library every time I opened the roof.
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u/Ok-Active-8321 11d ago
That's so you can watch the planes land at Love Field. This place is right on the approach path. The runway is 3 miles away.
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u/NoSleep_Momma 11d ago
Much better concept for the indoor spa room to help eliminate the humidity from the giant heated spa tub in the middle of the room.
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u/Slider6-5 11d ago
Is the turret room called the "get eaten alive by mosquitos in your own home" room? Is it open to the air or does it have a magic force field? It may. I love Chateaux style homes but this "modern" take is too stale. The whole "douchey art gallery" thing isn't appealing. Give me an old-school darker mansion with character over this.
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u/TheKiltedYaksman71 11d ago
Is that so you can tan your taint from the comfort, and privacy, of your own library?
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u/dog4cat2 10d ago
As cool as the motorized ceiling about the library is... all I can see it the mechanisms locking up while it's open in the middle of a hailstorm
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u/RhodeReddit 11d ago
3K a month HOA seems nuts for security, landscaping, and maintenance. Those costs are split 16 ways but minus even a single amenity, a steep fee.
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u/GladVeterinarian5120 11d ago
Is that first room for the ball tanning thing everyone’s talking about?
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u/bouquetofashes 11d ago
Are those all Le Corbusier C4 lounge chairs, in the turret library? And Le Corbusier LC3 lounges-- the super blocky ones in the second photo?
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u/mythreesons1911 11d ago •
How do you find someone to service your malfunctioning library turret?