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$ 1,650,000

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3 Beds

2 Baths

1,986 SqFt

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$ 1,650,000

Est. payment | -/mo

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3 Beds

2 Baths

1,986 SqFt

Key Details

Property Type Single Family Home

Sub Type Freehold

Listing Status Active

Purchase Type For Sale

Approx. Sqft 1986

Square Footage 1,986 sqft

Price per Sqft $830

Subdivision Cowichan Bay

MLS® Listing ID 1042693

Style Other

Bedrooms 3

Year Built 1980

Lot Size 23.000 Acres

Acres 23.0

Property Sub-Type Freehold

Property Description

RARE! Hank Schubart designed home set on 23 pristine, private acres above Cowichan Bay, offering sweeping ocean, valley, and mountain views from nearly every room. Deep overhangs float above walls of glass, & low rooflines trace the land's contours, as if the house grew from the hillside. Inside, exposed fir beams and rusticated stone fireplaces anchor sun-filled living spaces, while terracotta tile and reclaimed hardwood carry warmth throughout. The kitchen, bathrooms, and decks have been updated over the years, blending comfort with the home's original character. Skylights wash the great room in light, and the kitchen opens onto expansive decks for entertaining. Upstairs, the primary suite sits beneath vaulted wood ceilings with its own own valley & ocean views. A log bunkhouse on stilts & a log workshop extend the setting into the forest. Henry ''Hank'' Schubart (1916–1998) was an American-Canadian architect whose life reads like an origin story for West Coast design. Inspired as a teenager by Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography, Schubart wrote to Wright and was accepted into his Taliesin fellowship, tuition waived. He later co-founded a San Francisco firm before moving his family to Salt Spring Island in the late 1960s, drawn by a commission and a wish to raise his sons away from the Vietnam War draft. Over the next three decades, he became the island's beloved community architect, designing over 230 homes known as ''Hank's Houses.'' His style took Wright's Prairie horizontals and reimagined them for the coast, substituting the flat prairie line for the line of the sea. He was renowned for his gift of siting, nestling each home into its landscape so it felt native to the forest, with exposed cedar, expansive glass, and rusticated stone as his signature. A genuine Schubart house rarely comes to market, let alone outside Salt Spring Island. To find one intact on 23 acres above Cowichan Bay is exceptional — not a house built in his style, but one of his own. (id:24570)

Location

Province BC

Zoning Unknown

Rooms

Kitchen 1.0

Extra Room 1 Second level 3-Piece Ensuite

Extra Room 2 Second level 17'2 x 24'8 Primary Bedroom

Extra Room 3 Main level 13'9 x 11'9 Bedroom

Extra Room 4 Main level 20' x 20' Bedroom

Extra Room 5 Main level 3-Piece Bathroom

Extra Room 6 Main level 17'7 x 15'2 Family room

Interior

Heating Baseboard heaters, Heat Pump, ,

Cooling Air Conditioned, None

Fireplaces Number 3

Exterior

Parking Features No

View Y/N Yes

View Mountain view, Ocean view, Valley view

Attached Garage No

Total Parking Spaces 10

Garage No

Private Pool No

Building

Architectural Style Other

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Ownership Freehold

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Listed by Sotheby's International Realty Canada (Vic2)

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Alberta, T2M3Y7, CAN

939 Khenipsen Rd Cowichan Bay, BC V9L5L3

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