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Four-time Indy 500 winner’s $6.4 million mansion is for sale

Four-time Indy 500 winner’s .4 million mansion is for sale

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A custom home designed by renowned architect Clovis Heimsath for AJ Foyt 50 years ago is for sale for $6.4 million and features a sunken living room with 26-foot ceilings, a library with walnut walls, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and Closets and a 1950s pool house.

Foyt, 89, a four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, hired Heimsath in 1974 to design the 7,300-square-foot, 5-bedroom, 7-bathroom estate, which is “part of the fabric of Houston” and “a piece of a bygone era of Houston,” says Charlie Bingham, a real estate agent with Nan & Co. Properties, of the listing.

Located in the Sherwood Forest section of Houston’s Memorial Drive corridor, about a mile west of Memorial Park, the home sits on two separate lots that cover more than two acres.

The house’s rooms are a patchwork of geometric shapes, a hallmark of Heimsath, who “designed the house during its ‘secular’ phase and created a floor plan that resembles the shape of a crucifix, the property listing says.”

There’s “a grand entrance with 22-foot ceilings, a gorgeous half-moon window seat, and a hidden bar. The main bar is located in a remarkable room adorned with windows, allowing light (and views) to stream in,” says the Listing.

“We are thrilled to add this stunning memorial home to our active listings in Houston,” Nancy Almodovar, CEO and co-founder of Nan & Co. Properties, said in a statement. “Our team loves selling homes with a unique story – be it a famous athlete who once owned it or a famous architect who built it – and this home combines both elements.”

While Foyt was the original owner, the house has had several owners since then. Other notable features include brick-clad walls on the ground floor, which incorporate design elements reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs, as well as a sunroom that opens to the backyard and is adorned with friezes above and clerestory windows at eye level to allow for increased natural light to bring in.

Outside there is a four car garage with attached workshop and a driveway capable of parking 25 cars. A separate 1,542 square foot guest house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, a cedar-lined living room with fireplace and a mid-century kitchen with original appliances.

The home’s large, rectangular pool still features the original diving board.

While no longer living in the home, Foyt spoke to IndyStar weeks after the launch about moving his team’s racing operations from the Houston area to Indianapolis.

More: AJ Foyt Racing sees moving operations in Indianapolis “under one roof” as the next step.

For years, the team had built and prepared its cars in Waller, Texas, a suburb of Houston. But with other teams’ headquarters located in the Indianapolis area (including Rahal Letterman Lanigan, Andretti and Prema), AJ Foyt Racing moved preparation of its cars to its main street location at the speedway.

For Foyt, what mattered was the number of racist people in the area.

“I closed the Houston store about a month ago and moved everything here,” Foyt said at his book signing at the Speedway earlier this month. “When I was driving down there it wasn’t hard, but it’s so hard to get to people. And there are a lot of racial people up here. And I felt like since I had my business up here, I would do all my operations up here.

Foyt is the only driver in history to win the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona.

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