There is a Palladian-style classic house in New Canaan, Conneticut designed in 1982 by world renowned architect Allan Greenberg that was owned by George Lichtblau who was the inventor of the clip-on, anti-shoplifting tags in retail stores. This classic house is on the market priced at $8.5 million.
The house was named Huckleberry House and it sits on 8.4 acres of land with views over Silvermine Pond. The main house is measured at 9,235 square feet with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, formal rooms, a dining room with painted Chinese wallpaper, kitchen with Culin & Colella cabinetry and millwork, mahogany library and unique serpentine stairway and seven fireplaces. The grounds of the estate include a guest house, heated swimming pool, pool house and attached two-car garage.
Huckleberry House is listed by William Pitt of Sotheby’s International Realty.
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- This view of the back of the house feature the elegant light tone of the exterior walls complemented by the arched glass windows and matching arches of the covered patio. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This formal living room has a tall ceiling paired with yellow walls complemented by the beige pillars to match the sofas and the round area rug. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This living room has a couple of elegant arm chairs that has a classic design flanking the large fireplace with a white mantle. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This living room has a tall coffered ceiling paired with a chandelier and a row of tall arched windows that bring in an abundance of natural lighting for the beige sofa set. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The kitchen has a white marble breakfast bar paired with a couple of cushioned stools. The kitchen island also houses the faucet area across from the cooking area. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This is attached pantry of the kitchen with a narrow middle isle to its galley-style design topped with a dome pendant light. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The lovely gray cushions of the dining chairs surrounding the glass dining table matches the walls and complements the hardwood flooring of the informal dining area. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This formal dining room has gorgeous wallpaper that brings character to the walls and contrasts the white mantle of the fireplace beside the elegant dining set topped with a crystal chandelier. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The fireplace of this bedroom is flanked by embedded book shelves and topped with a wall-mounted TV facing the bed. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The primary bedroom has gorgeous light blue walls that complement the bright elements of the bed, fireplace mantle and crystal chandelier. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The chandelier hanging above the bathroom is a perfect match for the wall-mounted lamps flanking the vanity mirrors over the sinks. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This is the walk-in closet of the house that has white wooden cabinetry and a white wooden island in the middle of the carpeted flooring. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- Gorgeous dark wooden built-in shelves are embedded into the wooden walls adorned with wall-mounted lamps and a sofa set of the same tone. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This spacious and airy home office has a dark wooden desk that pairs well with the dark hardwood flooring complemented by an animal fur area rug. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The lush and luxurious garden of the estate grounds has a quaint area with a large fountain in the middle of a round walkway surrounded by tall trees. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This charming and rustic wrought iron gate that is flanked by tall hedges of shrubs leads to the pool and the pool house with classic tall white pillars. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The large pool of the backyard is surrounded by terracotta walkways and tall hedges of shrubs for maximum privacy. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- The back of the house has a large creek that adds to the charm of the area and landscaping filled with tall trees and grass. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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- This aerial view of the backyard pool shows the light tone of the pool house that pairs well with the gazebo in the lawn of grass on the other side of the hedge wall. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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What Is It Like to Live in an Allan Greenberg Home?
World-renowned architect Allan Greenberg founded his firm in 1972 and now employs eight architects, a preservationist, an architectural historian, and two certified green building professionals at offices in New York, New York and Alexandria, Virginia.
Greenberg and his team are world-renowned for their ability to honor classic styles while using the most modern construction techniques. Greenberg and associates offer full service from selecting the site to moving into the newly constructed home, but the essential difference in their firm is their ability to collaborate with the future homeowner.
Greenberg is famous for his ability to treat architecture as language for his clients. Every Greenberg home is the owners’ statement to themselves, to their friends and family, and, because of the fame of the firm’s work, to the world. Greenberg’s team has the technical skills to translate homeowner desires into engineering that works.
Greenberg homes are technologically advanced, soundly constructed, and clear statements in the art of architecture. One of the best examples of a Greenberg home is the Huckleberry House in New Canaan, Connecticut,
Creating an expression of both wealth and charity
Greenberg and associates designed and built the Huckleberry House in 1982 for inventor and philanthropist George Jay Lichtblau. Greenberg and Lichtblau chose an 8.4-acre building site overlooking Silvermine Pond. The 9,235-square-foot home was built in the Palladian style, a Venetian style of architecture that emphasized the classic proportions found in Greek and Roman temples. Over the entry to the house Greenberg designed a huge, triangular pediment in the same style as the temples of ancient Rome.
George Lichtblau and his wife Jane loved to entertain, especially dancing. Greenberg designed a ballroom with a soaring two-story rotunda for their social occasions. But their expansive home had ample room for living, with six commodious bedrooms and eight bathrooms and one half-bath.
The original floor plan of the house featured seamless continuity between rooms. The wings of the house were perfectly symmetrical so it was possible to walk in a circle around the house. The Lichtblaus commissioned Greenberg to design additions to their house in 1995 and 2006, but its original symmetry is still one of its most striking features. The central axis of the house is in perfect alignment with an Italian garden fountain to the west and a pool house to the east.
The dining room features hand-painted Gracie wallpaper, and the kitchen is equipped with Culin and Colella millwork and cabinetry. In Greenberg’s classic style, a spiral staircase set out of sight provides the only access to the second floor.
A style that is both gracious and generous.
After making his fortune as the inventor of the theft detection tags you encounter in every department store, Lichtblau and his wife retired to a life of charity. Lichtblau used his fortune to create a foundation to buy hearing aids for those who could not afford them, and provided the Hudson Institute and the Hope Sound Hope Chest with computers and printers for needy children.
After Lichtblau and his wife had both died, in 2017, the Lichtblau estate offered Huckleberry House at 99 Huckleberry Hill Road in New Canaan, CT, for $8,500,000. The property sold over three years later for $3,475,000.
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