luxury architect houses for sale Albany County, United States
Farmhouse Tie Siding (United States)
20 Beaver Creek Road offers a remarkable ownership opportunity within the Fish Creek Ranch Preserve, a picturesque 4,242-acre shared amenity ranch. This offering boasts 35+/- deeded acres with a truly captivating 7,126+/- square foot log home offering the perfect blend of luxury and recreational opportunities. The property is located just north of the Colorado/ Wyoming Border with year-access via well-maintained roads. Fish Creek Ranch totals 4,242 acres with fourteen 35+/- acre 'Homesteads', with the remaining 3,752 acres set aside for the owners to enjoy. This property itself consists of 35+/- deeded acres and is set perched upon a high ridge-line with expansive views in all directions, with most of the view-shed over the adjacent national forest. The Ranch offers an exceptional blend of timber covered hillsides, lush riparian bottoms and open meadows with rolling topography and a great network of horse riding, hiking, and ATV trails. Fish Creek runs through the heart of the ranch and feeds seven ponds with strong populations of trout. The greatest asset of 20 Beaver Creek Road is the breathtaking 7,126+/- square foot log home. The home is constructed of 2'x6' half log exterior providing a classic rustic western look while integrating modern interior finishes. The home consists of 5 bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms dispersed throughout the home providing guests with extreme privacy. The home is well appointed with a large kitchen, dining room, living areas as well as a bar and pool room downstairs. The home boasts four gas fireplaces throughout, providing cozy places to gather with friends and family. There is a large master suite built above the garage with an office space that offers expansive views. To round off the features of the home there is a large trex deck with a hot tub/ fire pit to take in the captivating views and a large three-car garage for the storage of tools and equipment. With purchasing a homestead in Fish Creek Preserve, owners receive a 1/14 undivided ownership interest in the shared amenities on the ranch which include the managers home, barns, machinery, and acreage itself. Owners can also board their horses at the ranch with the herd that is cared for by the full time manager. The home is being offered fully-furnished providing an opportunity for a future owner to come in and enjoy immediately. The area around Fish Creek Ranch offers prime big game habitat, and the ranch is blessed with an abundance of game species such as Elk, Moose, Deer, Antelope, Bears, and Turkey. While there is no hunting allowed within the ranch the property does offer a private gate on its southern boundary leading directly into Roosevelt National Forest providing plenty of over-the-counter hunting opportunities. Opportunities to see and experience Wyoming's wildlife abound at Fish Creek Ranch. To add to the list of sporting features on the property, Fish Creek runs through the heart of the ranch and boasts populations of wild brook trout. There are multiple impoundments along the creek with good populations of rainbow, brook, and brown trout creating a diverse fisheries resource for the avid trout angler. With seemingly endless horse riding, hiking and ATV trails both within the ranch and on the adjacent public lands there is rarely a day spent within Fish Creek that there is not an outdoor activity for everyone. The home itself sits at an elevation of ~8,600 feet meaning cooler summers and cold snowy winters are normal. The location of the property is ideal just north of the state border being within an hour drive of both Laramie, WY and Fort Collins, CO. Both are thriving towns with renowned universities as well as endless shopping and dining opportunities. The ranch is located approximately 7 miles west of US Highway 287 with year-round access via well-maintained county and private roads. Commercial air service is available at Laramie Regional or Denver International approximately 2 hours away.
…By Annonceur International
House Centennial (United States)
The road climbs until the sage gives way to aspen and the Snowy Range fills the windshield. Two miles past Centennial, a gate opens onto 370± acres that took a lifetime to assemble and could not be assembled again. Cross Creek Ranch holds four things that almost never appear on the same deed: architect-designed massive-timber construction, spring-fed live water, irrigated production hay ground, and a top fence line that opens directly onto more than a million acres of the Medicine Bow National Forest. Add a heated 150-by-300-foot arena built to competition specification and the offering has no meaningful comparable in the Rocky Mountain West. The land runs in two deeded parcels, 220± acres west and 150± acres east, fully fenced, with year-round access. Kelly Creek comes out of the timber cold and spring-fed and crosses the meadow, carrying 70 to 80 acres of irrigated and sub-irrigated hay ground that still produces. From there the country climbs through aspen bottoms into dark timber and simply keeps going, unbroken, toward Medicine Bow Peak at 12,013 feet. Elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn, black bear, mountain lion, and bobcat move through with the seasons. Blue-ribbon water and alpine lakes are minutes away. Owned minerals convey. The 6,080± square foot residence was designed by architect Joe P. Robbins of Steamboat Springs and built in the Swedish cope tradition: full-length logs selected, scribed by hand, and fitted one to the next until the wall itself became the structure. A sunken great room gathers beneath exposed ridge beams around a wood-burning fireplace, mullioned glass hanging the range on the walls like paintings. Granite meets pine cabinetry in the kitchen, over wood and Saltillo tile. In-floor radiant heat runs on a dual wood-pellet and propane system with solar supplement, the same engineering seriousness found everywhere else in the build. It could be rebuilt today only with difficulty, and never again with these materials. Then there is the arena. One hundred fifty by three hundred feet, heated, insulated, clear-span, set on concrete pilings, with some 700 tons of concrete engineered into the hillside retaining wall behind it. Roping chutes, return alley, three stalls, tack room, workshop, hay storage, pipe pens outside. This is not a covered riding ring. It is working infrastructure for roping, cutting, and performance-horse programs, and it is the reason this ranch runs twelve months a year at 8,000 feet. Legacy holdings of this caliber change hands a few times in a generation.
…By Annonceur International
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