Wind Whistle

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Wind Whistle (1988) was built by James Stageberg, FAIA (d. 2010, age 85), as a holiday home for himself and his wife, Susan Allen Toth, a writer best known for her gardening and travel books. Stageberg was a notable Minnesota architect, receiving the AIA Minnesota Gold Medal in 1991. Wind Whistle was named after a pub the couple visited in Dorset, England. It features a couple of extra buildings originally built as artist studios, one was later converted into a guest house as Stageberg's Parkinson's set in. All the structures are whimsical in nature with bold colors used throughout.

The house and smaller buildings were featured on Travel Channel's "Amazing Vacation Homes." Toth and Stageberg wrote a book about the house, published in 1991 called "A House of One's Own: An Architect's Guide to Designing the House of Your Dreams."

Toth put it up on the market after Stageberg's death, initially for $750,000. The quirky property eventually sold for $479,000 to a couple consisting of a corporate lawyer and therapist.

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