June 16, 2008
Mansion Monday: Campbell
Making our way north through Santa Clara County, today’s mansion is located in Campbell, a city located in the West Valley with 38,000 residents. While the town is generally considered affluent by American standards, with a mean annual household income of $93,109, the highest-priced home currently on the market here is listed for $2,999,800. The home, located at 867 Briarwood Way, is a whopping 9000 square feet and sits on .64 acres in a cul-de-sac.
The home is of contemporary design with an open floor plan, much of it with high ceilings open to the second story. There is a living/dining combo, gourmet kitchen/great room combo, plus home theatre, office, gym, and in-law suite, and a total of 5 bedrooms and 4 baths.
The front yard is nicely landscaped with stone driveway and plenty of parking (both inside and out). A large backyard is flat and comprised simply of lawn, but there is plenty of room to add a pool, patio, spa, play area, rose garden, you name it. For the full view, you can take a virtual tour here.
This home was purchased in 2003 and completely rebuilt into its current configuration and sold in 2005 for $2,500,000. This time around it originally listed in January for $3,695,000, dropping 19% in the intervening 5 months to its current price.
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OldRed said:
Wow, 9000 sq ft! The only thing I can think of that should be that big is a … barn. And thats just what the inside of this thing looks like, complete with hay loft! Built 1940? Nah, this couldn’t be an old packing shed? Why, I remember driving through the orchards in blossom in spring, cherries and apricots mostly. Beautiful, back before all that rich soil got covered in asphalt.
Going to need one heck of a ladder to get the spiders down from that ceiling, too. Those old barns were chilly and drafty, with lots of cobwebs.
June 16, 2008 1:37 PM
susan.brady said:
Probably gonna need a whole team of cleaners too. I sure as heck wouldn’t want to clean 9000 sf, especially those cobwebs you mention, and all the windows up high.
The original house was 1940 - I think they must have left part of the foundation and called it a remodel a few years ago, rather than a total tear down and reconstruct.
June 16, 2008 2:12 PM