Landmark modern home with exceptional architectural design
150 Waring Road, Memphis Tennessee
Features
This landmark home was designed by A.L Aydelott as his personal home. The unusual hyperbolic paraboloid roof is supported at each corner, at the ground, leaving the interior free of structural constraint so the ceilings can soar. Owned by the same family since 1980, its extensive woodwork—ceilings, walls, windows—is remarkably preserved. Important original finishes like terrazzo and brick floors and tile backsplash remain in excellent condition. The bedroom carpet and kitchen floor are new and in keeping with Aydelott's vision. Extensive landscaped grounds with pool, specimen trees, and mature plantings. The main house has two bedrooms and a lofted study with fireplace. While the original steel pergola was enclosed to create the sunny breakfast room, no modifications were made to Aydelott's essential plan. The guest house was Aydelott's home office and has been expanded to encompass a bedroom, bath, kitchen, dining room, and living room with private patio and access to the pool. The full circle drive allows guests to park near front door while residents can pull through to the large carport near the kitchen and guest house doors.
Ideally situated in Pidgeon Estates, surrounded by other lovely modern and traditional homes, and convenient for shopping, dining, and schools.
The architect and his house
Memphis architect Alfred Lewis Aydelott (1916–2008) Born in Arkansas, Aydelott studied architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, became a partner at Dent and Aydelott in 1939, and opened his own practice, A.L. Aydelott & Associates in 1946. You can read about his extensive career and his eponymous travel award for architecture students here.
150 Waring Road was completed in 1961 and was Aydelott’s last home in Memphis before he and his wife left for California in 1973. The authors of Memphis: An Architectural Guide comment that the house “was a kind of manifesto, a gauntlet thrown down in the faces of all those brick imitations of Williamsburg and other sentimental southern sites that one finds at every turn.” Looking at the home, it is no surprise to learn that Aydelott is considered the father of modernism in Memphis and was responsible for bringing such greats as Francis Mah and Francis Gassner to our city. Family lore has it that the tall hedge surrounding the property was mandated by neighbors who did not want to gaze upon this "eyesore."
Floor plan
Level one of main house and guest house
Level two of main house
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The seller is offering 3% buyer agent compensation.
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