Iconic Texas Home Known As The Sand Dollar House Is For Sale
A circular, lakeside home with a roof that looks like a sand dollar is hitting the market for $1.99 million just outside of Austin.
There's a lot of unique homes in Texas but this is probably one of the most well known homes in the Central Texas area that's getting a ton of attention.
Located in the city of Lakeway, which is just outside of Austin, its called the "Sand Dollar House" and the roughly 2,300-square-foot home is perched on a bluff that overlooks Lake Travis.
The sellers are Karena Dawn, co-founder of the fitness brand Tone It Up, and her husband, Bobby Goldstein.
According to Mansion Global, the pair came across the home while boating on Lake Travis. When they found out it was for sale, they bought it for an undisclosed price in 2021.
The three-bedroom home is shaped like a cylinder and made of steel and gunite and was built for an artist in the late 1970s by architect John Covert Watson, who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright.
The gunite roof, which has petal-shaped skylights in a sand-dollar-like formation, extends over the residence’s entrance, which opens to the second floor.
They used the home as a weekend getaway for about three years before listing it on short-term rental websites like Airbnb for around $1,000 a night, depending on the season. The home last hit the market in late 2020 for around $2.2 million but now its back on the market for $1.99 Million according to the listing by agent, Michelle Jones and Todd Grossman of Compass.
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