Hello Earthlings, welcome to this strange Connecticut condo for sale
The modernist building in Guilford, Connecticut caused quite a ruckus when it was first built in the 1980s.
In the 1980s, two developers in the town of Guilford, Connecticut asked architect Wilfred Armster to build a condo complex with the caveat of being “something wild,’’ according to the New Haven Register.
The New York Times reported:
“His response was this copper-clad structure, which was raised up on concrete stalks to capture views of Long Island Sound to the south, and wetlands to the north. Its units were loftlike, about 1,400 square feet, with open living areas and a two-car garage at street level. The businessmen were delighted by the design. But many of the town’s residents were horrified.’’
Armster’s wild idea left him with a lot of unhappy people in the town and even a death threat, the Register reported.
According to the Register, people wanted the structure to fit in with their idyllic, colonial town, which Armster’s round spaceship of a building certainly did not.
Now, one of the complex’s 13 units is for sale.
446 Whitfield Street #F is a one-bedroom, two-bathroom, 1448-square-foot condo for sale for $349,900. It has water views and a heated two-car garage.
But you won’t have to brave your neighbors’ wrath to move in.
Barbara Carney, the condo’s realtor from Sotheby’s International Realty, said the building has become famous, and even accepted, in the town.
“All you have to do is say spaceship and they know what you are talking about,’’ she said.
She also said some people drive through the parking lot just to see the building.
“It has been embraced,’’ Carney said.
And the people who live in the building love it.
Carney said there has been very little turnover, as there are many original owners still living there.
“It’s a block from the harbor and has sound views from the east and the west end,’’ she said. “Even when storms have come in, it sits just high enough that there are no issues.’’
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