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A New Mexico ranch built on sprawling land once owned by fashion designer Tom Ford, 60, has hit the market for $8.95million.
The stunning property is located remotely outside the village of Youngsville, about a two-and-a-half hour drive around the Valles Caldera National Reserve north of Albuquerque.
Known as The River Ranch or ‘Estancia de Rio,’ the rustic house has four bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths spread over 4,500 square feet.
It stands on a 1,000 acres of valleys, rivers, and desert mesas, and was built ‘to take advantage of the pink and red hills and valley of the Piedra Lumbre land grant,’ the Sotheby’s listing reads, ‘which was memorialized by internationally acclaimed artist Georgia O’Keefe.’
The luxurious house was built between 2011 and 2012 after Ford sold the property in favor of his massive 20,662-acre Cerro Pelon ranch, which he owned until selling it last year for $48 million.
Estancia de Rio is being sold by musician Fred Haas, according to the New York Post, who said he was selling the ranch so his horses could be closer to Santa Fe.
‘I love it here and bought it for the peace and quiet, to just be in nature and as a get away,’ Haas said, ‘It’s so beautiful, I hate to sell it.’
A New Mexico ranch built on sprawling land once owned by fashion designer Tom Ford has hit the market for $8.95million
The house, known as The River Ranch or ‘Estancia de Rio,’ has four bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths spread over 4,500 square feet
The house was built between 2011 and 2012 after Ford sold the property in favor of his massive 20,662-acre Cerro Pelon ranch, which he owned until selling it last year for $48 million
On the southern border of the valley where the property is located and visible from the house is Cerro Pedernal mountain, which was featured in one of Georgia O’Keefe’s most famous paintings
Georgia O’Keefe’s famous painting of Cerro Pedernal mountain, which is visible from the property now for sale for $8.95million
The gorgeous four-bed home first hit the market in 2019 for a cool $12million.
The house’s steel and concrete frame is coated in a façade of stacked stones, and features large picture-windows which bring the New Mexico landscapes into each room.
As well as the main property, the listing also features a number of separate guest houses – ‘casitas,’ as the listing calls them – which are joined by landscaped stone paths.
The unique houses were designed by Santa Fe architect John Wolf, and ‘each structure is a stand-alone piece of artwork, capturing the essence of the environment through light and form, while interweaving the comforts of a high-end luxury retreat,’ the listing reads.
And the luxury home also features a large soaking pool and hot tub on the patio overlooking the sprawling landscape and the Rio Chama.
The house’s steel and concrete frame is coated in a façade of stacked stones, and features large picture-windows which bring the New Mexico landscapes into each room
The property also features a number of separate guest houses – ‘casitas,’ as the listing calls them – which are joined by landscaped stone paths
The house was designed by Santa Fe architect John Wolf, and ‘each structure is a stand-alone piece of artwork, capturing the essence of the environment through light and form, while interweaving the comforts of a high-end luxury retreat,’ the listing reads
Estancia de Rio is being sold by musician Fred Haas, according to the New York Post, who said he was selling the ranch so his horses could be closer to Santa Fe
A typically sprawling view from the kitchen of the New Mexico ranch house which sits on 1,000 acres of valleys, rivers, and hlils
Alongside the quaint property is sprawling 500 acre parcel of land also for sale.
To the northwest of the home is the Chama River Canyon Wilderness area, and to the northeast across the Rio Chama is the Carson National Forest.
On the southern border of the valley where the property is located and visible from the house is Cerro Pedernal mountain, which was featured in many of Georgia O’Keefe’s most famous paintings.
‘She called it her mountain,’ Haas said, ‘And you can see it from my doorstep.’
The spectacular New Mexico ranch is being sold by Associate Broker and Realtor Gary Bobolsky. He can be reached at gary.bobolsky@sothebys.realty
The property is located remotely outside the village of Youngsville, about a two-and-a-half hour drive around the mountains north of Albuquerque
To the northwest of the property is the Chama River Canyon Wilderness area, and to the northeast across the Rio Chama is the Carson National Forest
It stands on a 1,000 acres of valleys, rivers, and desert mesas, and was built ‘to take advantage of the pink and red hills and valley of the Piedra Lumbre land grant,’ the Sotheby’s listing reads