This modern mansion designed by Allen Bianchi in the secluded neighborhood of Rivercrest Estates hit the market this week for $5.2 million, listed by Martha Turner Sotheby’s.
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This modern mansion designed by Allen Bianchi in the secluded neighborhood of Rivercrest Estates hit the market this week for $5.2 million, listed by Martha Turner Sotheby’s.
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Sitting on 3.77 acres, the home has been passed down through the family since the 1970s.
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Sitting on 3.77 acres, the home has been passed down through the family since the 1970s.
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The first floor of the home has an open flow connecting the kitchen, dining room, and living room.
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The first floor of the home has an open flow connecting the kitchen, dining room, and living room.
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One of the most talked-about features of the home is the imported all-glass elevator that connects the three floors of the home.
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One of the most talked-about features of the home is the imported all-glass elevator that connects the three floors of the home.
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The gated property offers total privacy and connection to nature while still being only about 10 minutes away from The Galleria.
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The gated property offers total privacy and connection to nature while still being only about 10 minutes away from The Galleria.
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The current owner works in the stone industry and has incorporated marble and limestone all throughout the home, including this backlit honey-onyx translucent sink in the powder room.
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The current owner works in the stone industry and has incorporated marble and limestone all throughout the home, including this backlit honey-onyx translucent sink in the powder room.
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Double islands in the kitchen also feature fine stone and top-of-the-line appliances, plus a wine SubZero fridge and a deep fryer.
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Double islands in the kitchen also feature fine stone and top-of-the-line appliances, plus a wine SubZero fridge and a deep fryer.
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A large living room with an oversized wood-burning fireplace opens up onto the ipe-wood deck through the fully retractable glass walls.
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A large living room with an oversized wood-burning fireplace opens up onto the ipe-wood deck through the fully retractable glass walls.
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The upstairs primary bedroom suite, with a sitting room, is wrapped with giant glass windows and overlooks the trees and custom pool.
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The upstairs primary bedroom suite, with a sitting room, is wrapped with giant glass windows and overlooks the trees and custom pool.
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The sitting room off the primary suite boasts a gas log fireplace—perfect for soaking in the views.
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The sitting room off the primary suite boasts a gas log fireplace—perfect for soaking in the views.
Juxtaposition is the name of the game at 23 W Rivercrest Dr, in the secluded Rivercrest Estates neighborhood.
The modern mansion could be plucked out of any of the Inner Loop’s most luxurious neighborhoods, and yet it sits on 3.77 acres of gated, rural land where horses and peacocks roam among NBA stars and billionaires.
“It’s like the country in the city out there,” says listing agent Estelle Lozmack.
The property has been kept in the current owners’ family since the ’70s and is now up for sale to the public—albeit an affluent segment of it—for $5.2 million by Martha Turner Sotheby’s.
In 2008 the current owners (daughter of the original owners and her husband) tapped architect Allen Bianchi to construct a new 5,800-square-foot home, in stark contrast to her family’s original rancher that sat on the property for 30-some-odd years.
The result was a four-bed, six-bath show home with high-end modern design and views of the expansive property from nearly every corner.
Throughout the house, giant floor-to-ceiling windows retract into the walls to offer unparalleled connection to the outdoors. The primary bedroom is perched above the live oaks and pine trees with views of the wide-open spaces that few Houston addresses could ever match. “On a gorgeous day it’s just spectacular,” Lozmack says.
Downstairs, a “second primary bedroom” provides mothers-in-law or guests with equal amounts of luxury plus an ADA-influenced en suite. The three floors are connected by a floating staircase as well as an imported all-glass elevator, which has proven useful for the multigenerational family that has called the property home for so many years.
The kitchen and bathrooms boast immaculate use of fine stone (which happens to be the owner’s line of work) through sleek double islands and a backlit honey-onyx translucent sink in the powder room.
Lavish design continues outdoors too. A saltwater infinity pool designed by architect Jackie Barry seemingly flows out from the home via an ipe-wood porch. A full tennis court has been maintained over the years, along with a two-stall stable.
If all this still isn’t enough, Lozmack notes that two side-by-side Briarpark homes that back up to the property and are currently occupied by the owner’s other family members are also for sale, rounding out the property to a full four acres of green space.
“People who are interested are people who are interested in privacy and are interested in having multigenerational families,” she says. “The sky’s the limit out there.”
