Case Study House morphs into a Regency-style contemporary and is now for sale in Beverly Hills

Case Study House No. 18 by Craig Ellwood, “extensively remodeled and altered,” is for sale right now in Beverly Hills.

Its current form is more of a Regency-inspired exterior with an interior that combines brown floor tile, vaulted ceilings and skylights in the kitchen, and touches of what looks to be marble.

The four-bedroom house began its life in 1958 as a prefab house with a sleek, minimal design that was “strongly defined with color: ceiling and panels are off-white and the steel framework is blue.” (Images from the early days of the house can be seen at the website Mid-Century Home.)

“The original steel frame, pre-fab midcentury house potentially could be restored to its original intent,” says the listing, leaving the possibility open for a return to the past for the house.

The Case Study House program was sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine. The homes, designed from the mid-1940s to mid-1960s, were supposed to be replicable and affordable, and were aimed at building much needed housing in the post-World War II era.

This house sits on a plot that’s just under an acre. It was most recently owned by Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg and his wife, and it is listed for $8.7 million. (The property site shows the residence’s previous price, $9.5 million.)

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