{"id":252365,"date":"2026-04-16T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:19:29","slug":"i-m-pei-masterpiece-built-for-fort-worth-royalty-lists-for-22m-take-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252365\/","title":{"rendered":"I.M. Pei masterpiece built for Fort Worth royalty lists for $22M. Take a look"},"content":{"rendered":"

An architectural marvel built for the union of two of Fort Worth\u2019s most influential families just hit the market for a cool $22 million.<\/p>\n

The 19,000 square foot house in Westover Hills is one of three private homes designed by world-famous architect I.M. Pei.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of Pei\u2019s other works include the Louvre Museum Pyramid in Paris, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, and Dallas City Hall.<\/p>\n

Pei designed the Westover Hills home in 1969 for former Tandy Corp. CEO Charles Tandy and wife Anne Burnett, the oil and ranching heiress.<\/p>\n

Burnett loved throwing parties, so she wanted the house to have a lot of space, Pei said in a 1970 Home and Garden Magazine interview<\/a> discussing the design.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe needed a house that would be comfortable for two people \u2014 or two or three hundred,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pei told the magazine he took inspiration from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum<\/a> in Boston, built in the style of an Italian Palazzo with a central courtyard surrounded by gallery rooms.<\/p>\n

The house\u2019s garden room plays a similar role with a slanted ceiling of glass panels that let natural light filter into the home.<\/p>\n

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The courtyard looking into the garden room at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

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The garden room at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

In its 57-year existence, the home has hosted weddings, debutant balls, and fundraising dinners for presidential campaigns.<\/p>\n

During Tandy\u2019s 60th birthday party, he and Burnett rode an elephant around the driveway courtyard.<\/p>\n

It also hosted the art collection of Burnett\u2019s daughter and namesake of TCU\u2019s medical school, Anne Burnett Marion. The collection was actioned for $157 million<\/a> after Marion\u2019s death in 2020, according to Paper City Magazine.<\/p>\n

In addition to contributing $50 million to support the medical school, Marion used her family\u2019s resources to support Fort Worth\u2019s artistic institutions.<\/p>\n

She was central to the development of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth both financially and stylistically.<\/p>\n

After finding one of the then-new museum\u2019s walls distracting, Marion had it torn down and rebuilt<\/a> to ensure patrons would focus on the art.<\/p>\n

The concrete home, tucked behind trees, sits on about 3.86 acres, and was appraised at $7.9 million in 2025,<\/a> according to the Tarrant Appraisal District.<\/p>\n

In addition to the garden room, the house includes seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, two formal dining rooms, two formal living rooms, an art gallery, three kitchens, and a pool.<\/p>\n

The property is being listed by Ashley Mooring of Briggs Freeman Sotheby\u2019s International Realty. She is sharing the listing with Ralph Randall and Madeline Jobst.<\/p>\n

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The courtyard outside the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

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The art gallery at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

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The primary bedroom at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

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One of the living spaces at the Tandy Home. <\/p>\n

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The outside of I.M. Pei designed Tandy Home. <\/p>\n

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The courtyard looking into the garden room at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

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The pool at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n

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The garden room at the Tandy Home in Westover Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An architectural marvel built for the union of two of Fort Worth\u2019s most influential families just hit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[95452,95454,95453,116,118,117,95455,95456,19249],"class_list":{"0":"post-252365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-anne-burnett","9":"tag-anne-burnett-marion","10":"tag-charles-tandy","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","13":"tag-fort-worth-news","14":"tag-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum","15":"tag-john-f-kennedy-library","16":"tag-westover-hills"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}