
A historic mansion that has been house through the years to 2 outstanding Des Moines households is in the marketplace for greater than $2 million.
James W. Hubbell Sr., grandson of Frederick Hubbell, founding father of the Hubbell actual property empire in Des Moines, constructed the stately English Tudor-style house in 1927 at 1401 Casady Drive in a neighborhood a couple of half-mile south of the current-day Grey’s Lake Park.
The Hubbell household owned the house till its sale in 2000 to a few from Virginia who labored for Wells Fargo. Then Nix Lauridsen, who owns the Ankeny-based Lauridsen well being and meals conglomerate and together with his spouse Virginia has been the benefactor of many Des Moines civic establishments, purchased it for $2 million in 2010.
The Lauridsens are itemizing the house for $2.2 million.
“He isn’t asking that rather more. I’d simply say he is an affordable vendor and simply needs to promote it and provides one other household the chance to stay there,” stated Rick Wanamaker of Iowa Realty, who focuses on high-end actual property and is the itemizing agent for the sale.. “It is going to be very moderately priced for what you get in worth.”
It was the second of three Hubbell mansions in-built Des Moines. The primary one, Frederick Hubbell’s Terrace Hill, was given to the state in 1971 by the Hubbell heirs and have become the Iowa Governor’s Mansion in 1976. A 3rd Hubbell mansion is in southwest Des Moines.
Although not as giant, the Casady Drive house bears some stylistic similarities to the historic, English-themed Salisbury Home, now a museum, that was in-built the identical period within the South of Grand neighborhood.
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The 7,021-square-foot Hubbell mansion price $275,000 to construct in 1927, the equal of almost $5 million at this time. It boasts seven bedrooms and 6 bogs, together with butler’s quarters on the second flooring. Intricate brickwork, giant leaded-glass home windows and an arched doorway welcomed friends to the numerous galas the Hubbells and their youngsters held there. The house options three fireplaces, together with a limestone fire in the lounge and one other in the master suite.
Ceiling beams, black walnut paneling and oak flooring grace the expansive front room. On the time of one of many house’s gross sales in 2000, the grounds included an oval perennial backyard with greater than 30 types of flowers, a vegetable backyard and a reducing backyard, together with 56 mature oak timber. James W. Hubbell Sr. even constructed a 10-hole golf course on the property, although it was later eliminated.
There’s a three-car storage, and in 1940 an 800-square-foot swimming pool and tub home have been added.
“This in all probability had a pool when swimming pools have been uncommon,” Wanamaker stated.
James W. Hubbell Sr. died in 1962 and left the property to Drake College. His son, James W. Hubbell Jr., purchased the house from Drake and lived there together with his household for 20 years. It later was handed on to his daughter Rusty Edwards and son-in-law Charles Edwards, who was The Des Moines Register’s writer for greater than a dozen years.
The household offered the house in 2000 to Virginians Ben and Martha Smith for $1.3 million, based on the Polk County assessor’s data. Lauridsen purchased the home in 2010.
In the present day the home nonetheless options its authentic honeycomb flooring within the kitchen. A Frigidaire fridge authentic to the house, nonetheless in working order, sits within the pantry. Many of the toilet fixtures are also authentic, stated Wanamaker, who described the home as forward of its time.
“The unique allure nonetheless exists,” stated Wanamaker. “All of the house owners have understood the worth of sustaining the property with its authentic allure.”
This text has been edited to appropriate the title of James W. Hubbell Sr.’ daughter and son-in-law.
Philip Joens covers retail, actual property and RAGBRAI for the Des Moines Register. He may be reached at 515-284-8184, pjoens@registermedia.com or on Twitter @Philip_Joens.
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