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2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
2 Charlie's Lane, Shelter Island. CHRIS FOSTER FOR SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY
On Shelter Island, the midcentury modern Snyder House has hit the market.
Architect Bertrand Goldberg designed the waterfront house for John Snyder, the CEO of the Pressed Steel Car Company, according to Sotheby’s International Realty. At 2 Charlies Lane, the house was built in 1952.
The home offers panoramic water views of West Neck Harbor and Long Island Sound. Sotheby’s stated that the house is considered a “must-see” and was a “demonstration house” that many onlookers traveled from New York City by amphibious airplanes to experience.
According to the official Bertrand Goldberg website, the house was originally built with prefabricated components from Goldberg’s Unishelter program. A Unishelter ad from the 1950s states, “When modern industry needs housing-in-a-hurry for working in far off constructions sites Unishelter is the answer!”
It was Snyder’s company that manufactured Unishelter homes and Unicel freightcars.
“The focal point of the house was a dramatic cantilever, composed of the prefabricated units” and jutting out over the water, bertrandgoldberg.org states. However, the cantilever no longer exists.
The current owners rebuilt the house on its original footprint in 2002, maintaining the midcentury modernist design while bringing it to up 21st century standards. It is 6,000 square feet, all on one level and sited on 3.4 acres.
It has six bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, a cook’s kitchen, and numerous seating areas.
The original stone fireplace has eight flues. Stone floors contrast with the interior glass walls looking out to water and nature.
Among the outdoor amenities are a 74-foot-long heated saltwater gunite pool, a private beach and a 235-foot deep-water dock.
The asking price is $13.95 million. Nick Brown of Sotheby’s International Realty’s East Hampton brokerage has the listing.
Goldberg, who died in 1997 at age 84, was from Chicago and is best known for the Windy City’s Marina City complex, two 60-story concrete towers completed in the early 1960s.
On Long Island, he designed the three-building Stony Brook University Hospital complex that was completed in 1980.
Staff Writer on Mar 1, 2023