A massive warehouse-style condo is selling for $1.59 million in San Antonio’s King William neighborhood. Fitting for the historic district, has a vintage dating back 100 years, just not as a home.
The condo is part of the King William Lofts, a residential development inside a former industrial facility setting with remnants of its rugged past still on display. Those include exposed steel beams, brick walls and large industrial windows.
In 1926, the Samuels Glass Co. relocated from nearby South Alamo Street. After that, the property changed hands and served various industrial uses, including as a plastic factory in the late 1960s, according to a San Antonio Report article.
Eventually, local developers saw the potential for luxury condominiums and hired San Antonio architect Jim Poteet to transform two large units inside the space into high-end lofts.
This two-bedroom, four-bath apartment is the larger of the two at 4,014 square feet. Ceilings are soaring in this open-floor-plan multi-level space. The living area melds seamlessly into the kitchen, offering more intimate nooks throughout, according to its sales its listing.
In total, the floor plan includes four distinct living areas.
Throughout, warm wood balances out cold steel, bringing an earthiness to the industrial aesthetic. The kitchen anchors a common area, where natural wood cabinets are bathed in the natural light of paned clerestory windows.
In the primary bedroom, the Old World stateliness of a custom canopied bed offsets the vaulted trusses of bygone industry. A Japanese copper tub in the suite’s bathroom is set against more natural wood, continuing the motif of mingling natural and industrial touches.
A second-story loft study overlooks the kitchen and common areas below, and the cozy nook and conversation space is lined with book shelves. The shelves also display a vast collection of earthenware, another motif throughout the space, which the listing describes as “part gallery, part sanctuary.”
For a buyer with plenty of cash and a desire to live downtown, this former factory is anything but standard-issue, assembly-line fare. Indeed, someone may find it a work of art.
This home is listed by Jason Glast with Phyllis Browning Co.
All photos and listing info via Realtor.com.
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