This home at 1078 Sasco Hill Road in Fairfield just hit the market, asking $8.95 million.
An eight-bedroom manse on Sasco Hill Road in Fairfield just hit the market, asking $8,950,000 for the chance to buy a 4.22 acre waterfront estate on one of Fairfield County’s most revered roads.
The property, called Bella Vista, has some interesting history (which you can read about below), but it’s the views of the Sound and the classic design within the 10,000 square foot Newport Georgian that the listing agency, Michelle & Company, is touting. Check it out:
This historic photo of the home, built in the 1920s, is on file at the Art Institute of Chicago.
“Commissioned by Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss and designed by architect Roger Bullard in 1927, Bella Vista conveys dignity and elegance. The ornamental front door is the universal hallmark of Georgian style in America. Exquisitely scaled and proportioned against the limitless backdrop of water and sky, the panorama creates the perfect balance of structure and natural beauty,” the property’s brochure reads.
Bullard was a well-noted architect of the period, designing homes for not only the likes of the Auchinclosses (Mr. Auchincloss became First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s stepfather, and gave her away in her wedding to President John F. Kennedy), but several other notable families during the early 20th century. Check out this mini resume we found in a description of another Bullard home in New Jersey:
Bullard had designed estates for a number of prominent families of the time, including that of J.P. Morgan, which were impressive in scale but retained an air of rural domesticity. Among many of Bullard’s designs that still stand to this day are Rynwood in Old Brookville, New York now the home of Banfi Vintners and the Maidstone Country Club in East Hampton, New York. In 1933, Bullard won a Gold Medal in the Better Homes in America competition for his design “America’s Little House”. The modest sized colonial, built at 39th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan, reflected the changing needs in housing and became something of a phenomenon. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia broke the ground and Eleanor Roosevelt laid the hearthstone. CBS Radio broadcast live from there several times a week and over 150,000 people toured the home until its eventual demolition about two years later.
For more information about the house, check out the listing here.
