Sculptured House
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| Sculptured House | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Genesee Mountain, Jefferson County, Colorado |
| Nearest city: | Golden, Colorado |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1963 |
| Architect: | Charles Deaton (original), Charlee Deaton and Nick Antonopoulos (2003 completion) |
| Architectural style(s): | Expressionist |
| Added to NRHP: | February 24, 2004 |
The Sculptured House, also known to locals as the Clamshell House, Sleeper House or Flying Saucer House, is a distinctive elliptical curved house built on Genesee Mountain in 1963 by architect Charles Deaton.
The interior of the Sculptured House went largely unfinished for almost three decades until the entrepreneur John Huggins purchased the house and in 2003 completed the interior and added a large addition. The addition had been designed by Charles Deaton with Nick Antonopolous before Deaton's death in 1996. Deaton's daughter, Charlee Deaton, was commissioned to design the interior. The Sculptured House was featured in the 1973 sci-fi comedy movie by Woody Allen, Sleeper (film). The house recently sold for over $5.5 million.
Charles Deaton's inspiration for the house was captured by an article in Art in America: "On Genesee Mountain I found a high point of land where I could stand and feel the great reaches of the Earth. I wanted the shape of it to sing an unencumbered song."
Dellzell Inc. was the original builder of the house on an experimental permit. Clifford Delzell was a masterful craftsman of the original house under the fine architectural guidance of Charles Deaton.
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