A house in Aspen just set a record.
The property at 135 E. Cooper Ave. sold for $21.95 million late last month, but that’s not where the record-setting money resides in this residence nestled in the core of Aspen.
“This is the highest price-per-square-foot sale for a single-family home in the central downtown area of Aspen,” said Carrie Wells, a broker with Coldwell Banker Mason Morse Real Estate, who represented the seller of the J.M. Dixon house.
That price per square foot? $3,396.
Wells said the house’s location — in the area from the base of Aspen Mountain to Main Street — was a key factor in the pricing of this property and why it sold for what it did.
The house has seven bathrooms and one half-bath as well as seven bedrooms — five in the main Victorian-style house and two in the guest house.
What’s unique to this house, Wells said, is that in most cases the Historic Preservation Committee requires a staircase in the Victorian portion of a house. Since the guest house also has a staircase, there has been approval to eliminate the two separate staircases and connect them.
Victorians in Aspen are preserved and, therefore, cannot be torn down. The seller owns properties in the Hamptons “and that’s where this design influence comes from,” Wells said.
In early January, the Aspen City Council decided to give its residents a vote on two ordinances regarding redevelopment at the base of Aspen Mountain’s west side, Carolyn Sackariason reported in The Aspen Times on Jan. 7. On the ballot is whether or not to move Lift 1A, which serves the area where Apsen holds FIS World Cup ski races, 500 feet closer to downtown Aspen. Should the voters decide “yes” on the March 5 ballot question, then the J.M. Dixon house will be closer to the lift already one block away.
“The sale of this property illustrates continuous demand for Aspen properties that provide the quintessential Colorado lifestyle,” said Will Herndon, president of Coldwell Banker Mason Morse, in a news release provided by Laura Acker, vice president of Kreps DeMaria PR & Marketing.
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