This house reminds me of a funeral home on the outside and what I would expect for a Hugh Hefner home to look like on the inside. I think it could be a kind of fun place to live but how would you put your decorating stamp on that????? $1.7M. Yikes!

Wow, now that house has character. It's a shame that someone will probably come in with buckets and buckets of white paint and destroy the wood and stone elements that make the home special.

The sound of fingernails on a black board...! :-)

It's not a house for someone who wishes to collect art or have conventional furniture.

The bedspread on the round bed looks like it might be vintage Missoni, which usually appears vibrant but looks kind of wan and limp in this setting.

In that regard this is similar to a FLW house in that it was conceived as a complete work by the architect and any deviation from that or personal effects of the client (and sometimes even the furniture) looks superfluous and like it's diminishing the intent.

Not an easy house to live in for a number of reasons, even though it's interesting as a design concept.

Hmm...they sure did like round things didn’t they.

Head for the roundhouse, Nellie...they can't corner you there...! :-)

I love it. I think some of it is a little over the top -- maybe the rock walls, and the textured wood walls. Also, the kitchens and baths -- presumably newer updates -- were a little much for me. I think the textured wood walls may have been updates as well. Not sure about the rock walls. Otherwise, i think this is a pretty great house.

I believe the bath I show is all original and the one with the modern freestanding tub is updated with some original elements.

I think you would need to live a very unconventional life to be able to live in that house. Square peg in a round hole comes to mind.

I love it!! That living room fireplace is spectacular!! There is so much contrast and texture. And the glimpse to the lush outside!! :) :) (I could do without the mirrors in the bedroom though.)

Love that ceiling in the office. Feel REALLY bad for the poor sucker on the lowest shelf bunk bed...

I bet there is a turntable under that bed...

The living room reminds me of The Big Lebowski.

"exuberant" *snort laugh*

I'd love to walk through that house! I love the rollup counter cabinets in the kitchen, and I'm intrigued by the tree-like fireplace (but I think I'd feel weird lighting a fire under a tree...) I think the Chinese symbols on the round bed platform stand for "impossible to buy sheets that fit."

Check out the satellite view on the map. It's a very different shape; cool but goes right to the edge of the lot line.

I would buy it in a minute if I was looking for a large house in Dallas.

Great find!

Inspired by the John Frank House of Bruce Goff, an architect with an idiosyncratic vision, and executed with a wonderful exuberant consistency, as palimpset notes. The inspiration house, like others by Goff, is on the US National Register of Historic Places.

I expect to see Frank, Dean and Sammy, Peter and Joey and a host of babes coming over any moment now!

More Goff homes:

More on Goff.

Weeeellll, words do fail me on this one. I'm getting old and stodgy, that must be it.

I love it and it's not like anything I usually would like. I can't even put into words exactly why it appeals to me. It just does.

However, I'm not sure I'd want to live there full time. But wow I'd love to stay there as an Airbnb or something.

It is very interesting. I'd never think to combine so many textures-but they did it mostly successsfully

I can't picture myself living in it-yet I can see very well how it can a be a great museum for example..for exhibitions like sculptures and archeological finds and collections like that. Less gallery type museum, more three dimensional objects one.

hi worthy!

a really interesting place and more livable than you'd think on first glance. I love that fireplace and the outdoor living spaces. It brings to mind how differently comfortable living is defined in cold vs warm climates: up here that house would feel unbearably cold and dark. But against the Dallas heat and humidity it probably feels refreshing.

I love the wacky sofa in the basement (looks cool and comfortable), the pecky cypress living area/screen, and the tilework in that bathroom.

Love it! There is a lot of over-the-topness, but it still seems understated. I could definitely live there.

I think the important thing about this house is that there are clearly parts of the house that post date 1962 and some that are as recent as the past few years, but the historic fabric was always taken into account when renovations were done.

This is so rarely done, and when it isn't done, it tends to diminish the building as a whole.

I really like the kitchen and the basement level. I agree it would be fun as a rental.

Is that a copper fireplace?! I love it!!! And it looks like the metal was hammered by hand. Wish I had made that...

You see, there were these drugs . . . .

I kind of love it a little bit. In the way I loved that boy in high school who seemed full of promise but who I knew in my heart was very bad for me.

That deSede Non-Stop sofa in the living room is magnificent. And I love the intact master bath with the sunken tub. That is a party pad deluxe. I’m thinking the racks are for when the go-go dancers get tired and need to nap.

I'm with Ingrid. This house is too over the top for me. Definitely has the "party pad" vibe.

What stays with that home, what goes? So much of the decor and furniture is just right for that home without them a new person would pay a fortune trying to retro fit it. Many larger elements are built-ins, it appears, which really makes taking others away impossible to match up. I have never seen so many sectionals or to use the back in the day vernacular "couch pits" in one place. They remind me of why they wen't out of favor and stymie me as to their return. What's in the cage island inside the kitchen?

The cage like item in the kitchen is a table and chairs.

It's what Bruce Goff typically did. You like it or you don't...

That's the same frame around the Ford house. He developed this idea from working on Quonset huts during the war (and trying to make some things not look like Quonset huts).

The other thing you have to realize is that this is not even the work of our parents' generation, this is the work of someone from our Grandparents' generation.

I love it! A beautiful place! A piece of rare art! I ‘d line up with a 6’x100’ straight line fountain and a lot of rose trees and roses in the front......fragrant climbing roses MAC on the stone walls......but the lot is too small for a 5,814 sq ft house.

Interesting. Now I'm very curious to know who commissioned this house.

The client was Eddie Parker. The house was designed by Goff (and Parker, I guess) in 1957, but they had a falling out before the house was built, and it was built by Parker in 1961-2.

Ok, for some reason I was thinking Parker was just the designer working with Goff. Thanks!

I dunno about that bedroom. Looks like a funhouse, and not in a good way. Although I do have a knockoff version of that chair that I own. Waiting for the right time and person to recover it. It's currently cream vinyl with a few small tears.

Wow!

Thinking Elvis would've loved it...

I've probably driven by that house on Hill Haven a hundred times but never noticed it. I use that street as a cut though sometimes on my way to my daughter's school to avoid a traffic backups on the major roads. Now I'm going to look closer the next time I'm driving through there.

But what I really want to know is how does someone get to the middle or top bunk? I see no ladder or steps?!

Looks like ultimate party house.

Not a house I'd want to live in day to day

Here's an earlier shot of the central fireplace room with furnishings that reflect the original design.

This is an interesting article about learning how to live in the house,

https://prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/2003/03/01/the-round-house/

Wow. Wow o Wow! I saved up looking at this house until I could look on a large monitor, and Wow - can't stop saying wow! I actually love it. And I'm glad palimpset noted what that chrome 'cage' in kitchen is -- I never would have guessed.

I actually like it though I lean far more clean and simple generally. Not as a full time house; I would basically need another primary house with nothing but white walls and polished concrete floors - no trim or fussy details - as a palate refresher in between stays at the round house. I like art so I need another home where that could be displayed and not be overwhelmed or feel cluttered!

But after reading Thompson’s experience living in it I think I would prefer just to stay in it as an Airbnb. I am not someone who wants my house to be my hobby. I am super curious after reading that article though what “normal” house he and his wife moved into!

Note to self: $1.7 million can get you a much more interesting house in Dallas than where I live.

I think it is pretty amazing. I don't know if I could live in it. However, I still appreciate all of the interesting aspects and there are so many!! I can see having amazing parties in that house.

I actually think the DeSede sofa is an improvement on the original banquette and railing set-up.

I would have to have a full-time housekeeper or two and lots of ladders and vacuum cleaners with wands and such to live in a house like this.

I do think it's tedious when people dismiss something as "I can't imagine cleaning all that" --but in this case, I can imagine cleaning it and I don't think I could keep it as clean as I would want because of all the texture. I feel like I would have someone who vacuumed the walls and washed windows almost full-time.

(This is coming from someone whose ideal bathrooms and kitchen would be able to look normal, but could be hosed down and blasted dry like a car wash every day--and also has shifting piles of books accessories and papers everywhere).

@palimpest - you share similar ideas as my husband when it comes to ideal bathrooms and kitchens. He thinks solid surface everywhere plus a pressure washer would be ideal. The trick would be to lessen the kill room or public swimming pool change room vibe...

I thought the same when I saw those walls. My grandparents old rock fireplace (rock actually made up entire wall) was bad enough to keep clean so replicating that all over a house would, as you said, necessitate a full time employee to keep on top of it! Or at least someone needs to get on to developing a wall climbing Roomba (can they get on making a stair climbing one before that though?) I just want to live in my house peacefully with my husband, cat, and troop of cleaning robots...is that too much to ask? In a couple of decades someone will find this post and be stunned we ever had to steer our own vacuums or pick up a Swiffer at all ha ha.