AMERICAN STABLES

“Frank Lloyd Wright couldn’t design an ordinary-looking building,” says producer Joel Silver, who restored the little-known Auldbrass, Wright’s 1939 plantation in Yemassee, South Carolina. A crushed-brick walkway leads to the barn. “By folding the roof down and the corners of the doors back, Wright created something origami-like,” Silver notes. 

Architectural Digest's selection of distinctive, well-styled Equine accommodations throughout the United States -- I just came across this write-up on American Stables.  While there's no relation to Los Angeles real estate, I found the stories and images refreshing and eye-catching and thought you would too.  For a bit of of a change from the norm, please read on and enjoy this beautiful part of the American landscape. 

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At Fred and Pam Rentschler’s Corral Creek Ranch in Montana, saddled horses stand before the stable, which was made out of recycled pine logs and native fieldstone. “It was crafted with basic tools: a chain saw, an ax, a sledgehammer and string lines,” says Harry Howard, who helped with its construction. 

“The main purpose of the ranch is to breed paint horses, but I don’t think of breeding horses as work—that’s a vocation,” says Mel Pervais, the owner of Chief Joseph Ranch outside Darby, Montana. “The barns were originally made for dairy use,” explains Pervais, who converted them into stables and offices. 

Ted Flato, John Grable and David Lake, of Lake/Flato Architects, renovated an 1853 spring house in Texas. “The owner is very proud of his polo ponies, and we all worked together to make a special shelter for them,” says Grable. The semi-open stalls were built from recycled oil pipes and corrugated metal. Working with the client, the architects designed the rolling saddle racks. “When you take the saddles off the horses, nothing touches the ground,” explains Flato. “Just like in the house, the owner wanted everything in the barn to have this incredible order, and yet it’s in harmony, not only with nature but with how it has to function."

Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, repeatedly called on architect Charles Gwathmey, who died in 2009, to renovate and expand their East Hampton, New York, residence. “Stylistically, the new stable relates to the barns and other outbuildings of the old farm,” said Gwathmey. “It’s an attempt in architectural terms to make visible, however ambiguously, the close relationship between past and present.” Its weathervane in the form of a rampant dinosaur pays whimsical homage to Spielberg’s film Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World.

When the beautiful horse barn at Faraway Farm in Kentucky was built in 1921, it was considered state of the art. The owners worked with the University of Kentucky’s department of historic preservation to restore the building precisely, including the stall of the famous American stallion Man o’ War.

Ike Kligerman Barkley employed Neoclassical and English precedents in creating a Virginia residence for interior designer Renée O’Leary and her husband. Inspired by architect Harrie T. Lindeberg, John Ike designed the barn as a steeplelike building, which houses the tack and feed rooms and 28 stalls for O’Leary’s horses, as well as a spiral staircase that leads up to an apartment for the groom.

Architect Edward Carson Beall and builder Jim Messersmith refurbished a ranch, set in the La Plata Mountains in Durango, Colorado, for the late author Louis L’Amour and his wife, Kathy. The couple built a pump house and improved the barn and the granary, but these steep-roofed structures look the way they’ve probably always looked—old and weathered and solid.

Byrnley Farm is actor Robert Duvall’s 521-acre property in the Virginia countryside. Pictured: Duvall leads one of the horses that roam his estate, which consists of two parcels of rolling meadows and green pastureland.

Centennial Ranch in Ridgeway, Colorado, has been owned and operated by Vince and Joan Kontny since 1992. “I wanted to restore this place to its historical significance and do what I could to protect the legacy of western ranching,” notes Vince Kontny. Roping saddles fill the tack room. An antique parlor stove faces seating made from stumps fitted with antique cast-iron wagon seats and horseshoe footrests.

“We chose a traditional style to complement indigenous architecture and to give the site a sense of history and time,” Susan Orsini says of Green Meadow Farm, the stable she designed for Gary and Carole Beller in New York’s Dutchess County. A gambrel roof and board-and-batten siding distinguish the main barn, which contains the owners’ wing and grooms’ apartments, as well as 12 stalls for the Bellers’ hunters and show horses.

Castleton Lyons is the Lexington, Kentucky, horse farm of Ryanair founder Tony Ryan. Upon purchasing the farm, Ryan immediately began making improvements, planting more than 2,000 trees, installing a timber-framed covered bridge over a lake on the property and renovating many of the barns. Pictured: The stallion manager and general manager inspect a horse in front of the stallion barn, which was originally built in the 1940s.

Rescued at auction by Henryk and Barbara de Kwiatkowski, Calumet Farm is back as Kentucky’s showplace for racing and breeding thoroughbreds. Located in Lexington, the property has 847 acres of lavish pastureland and more than 40 buildings, including a 14-room residence, 15 white barns with red-trimmed cupolas, a sophisticated veterinary clinic, an equine swimming pool and underwater treadmill, two racetracks, a gazebo and a modest log cabin. Pictured: The main stallion stable has a standing-seam metal roof and copper cupola.

Since 1984 a California ranch has been a restful retreat for actress and director Anjelica Huston. The tack room was designed by Jeremy Railton. “There I keep treasured chaps and a hatband that belonged to my grandfather Walter Huston,” she says. Huston’s late husband, sculptor Robert Graham, designed the studio, just beyond the tack room, in 1993.

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