Courtesy of Keith York

The San Diego-area property was photographed by Julius Shulman shortly after its completion, then it disappeared for decades. Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California
Year built: 1960
Architect: Jon Antelline
Specs: 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,775 square feet, 3.56 acres
Price: $3,500,000

Located 20 miles northeast of San Diego (and about four miles inland), the affluent and bucolic enclave of Rancho Santa Fe was developed in the 1920s under the supervision of a young architect named Lilian J. Rice. One of the first women to graduate from U.C. Berkeley?s architecture program, Rice designed the town?s civic center in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, and the vast majority of Rancho Santa Fe?s homes followed suit. One notable exception is this striking mid-century modern abode, now on the market for the first time since the ?80s. Known as the Antelline Residence, the four-bedroom ?statement home,? as the listing puts it, was designed in 1960 by Jon P. Antelline for his father, Fred Antelline. Jon Antelline was just 19 at the time.
Though not formally trained as an architect, the younger Antelline grew up working in his father?s general contracting and engineering firm, and evidently gained quite an education on the job. It also seems safe to assume that the Antellines had a subscription to Arts & Architecture, since they commissioned the magazine?s best-known photographer, Julius Shulman (famous for his images of the Stahl House), to shoot th...