Blink and You Might Miss Michigan’s Chameleon House, Now Listed for $1.2M
Location: 7452 N Manitou Trail, Northport, Michigan
Price: $1,199,000
Architect: Anderson Anderson Architecture
Year Built: 2004
Footprint: 1,650 square feet (three bedrooms, three and a half bath)
Lot Size: 1 acre
From the Agent: "Here’s your opportunity to own the one-and-only, award-winning, nine-level Chameleon House. Designed by San Francisco–based Anderson Anderson Architecture, this property has the unique ability to capture your imagination, but also mimic natural light and color from its surrounding landscape and sun hues due to its innovative translucent polyethylene reflective siding material. The home’s double skin creates a microclimate and thermal differential around the structure, creating a rippling mirage updraft that in the summer sends steaming condensation or in the winter drips melting icicles. Like any work of art, this unique structure captures your attention with wonder and delight."
Perched on a one-acre lot surrounded by rolling hills, the home frames striking views of Lake Michigan, the Manitou Islands, and the Crib Lighthouse.
Capped with exposed wooden beams, the kitchen and dining area opens to a large terrace overlooking the surrounding countryside.
In addition to multiple terraces, the home also offers a spacious rooftop patio.
The steel-clad home is composed of structural insulated panels, and the interiors are finished in birch for a warm and cozy atmosphere.
"This is truly a one-of-a-kind architectural masterpiece," notes the agent. "The wall cladding has the ability to gather light and color of its beautiful landscape, dissolving the finely shadowed and haloed structure into the seasonal color cycles—from snow and ice to pale-pink blossom clouds, pollen-green leaves, and vivid foliage."
The Chameleon House, located at 7452 N Manitou Trail in Northport, Michigan, is currently listed for $1,199,000 by Ryan Craig of Keller Williams Northern Michigan.
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