A Westover Hills home designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei, whose iconic structures include Paris’ Louvre Museum pyramid, Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and Dallas’ Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and Dallas City Hall, has gone on the market for $22 million.
The $22 million price tag makes the storied mansion at 1400 Shady Oaks Ln. the most expensive home publicly listed for sale in Fort Worth, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty – whose agents Ashley Mooring, Madeline Jobst and Ralph Randall have the listing – says in a LinkedIn post that the 19,000-square-foot Westover House is “the last, largest, and most significant of only three homes ever designed by the celebrated architect.” Pei died in 2019.
As with many of the buildings Pei designed, Westover House incorporates clean lines, strong geometric shapes, and modern materials.
The Wall Street Journal reported Pei designed the 1969 home for oil and banking heiress Anne Burnett Tandy, who died in 1980, and her fourth husband, Charles Tandy, one-time chairman, president, and CEO of Fort Worth-based Tandy Corp., which owned RadioShack. He died in 1978.
Mooring tells WSJ that the Tandy family still owns the mansion, which was home to Anne’s daughter Anne Burnett Marion until her death in 2020. Among other accomplishments, Marion chaired Burnett Ranches; founded and chaired Burnett Oil; served on the Board of Trustees at TCU, whose medical school bears the Burnett name; established the famed Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and supported the Fort Worth Museum of Art and Kimbell Art Museum.
In 2021, Marion’s private art collection sold for an astounding $157.2 million at a Sotheby’s New York auction. The artworks on auction had decorated Anne and John Marion’s palatial Fort Worth home.
Westover House, situated on four acres in the exclusive Fort Worth enclave, features seven bedrooms, three kitchens, three living rooms, two dining rooms, two climate-controlled wine cellars, and an art gallery, according to WSJ. All of the bedrooms occupy a separate wing; the primary suite includes a private bathroom and a library.
The mansion is roughly the size of a Trader Joe’s store.
The family was known among the Fort Worth social set as great entertainers, and the home was perfect for their lavish parties. Among the outdoor amenities are a putting green and a swimming pool.
“The home’s pièce de résistance is a garden room with a sloping steel-and-glass ceiling and a wood-lattice sunscreen,” WSJ says.