Nestled into the woodlands of upstate New York, the house is a glittering ribbon of glass and steel. The midcentury home has enough drama to be on TV and, now that you’re taking a closer look, maybe it looks a little familiar.
That’s because if you’ve seen “Hunters” or “Fallout” — both dramas from Amazon Prime — you’ve already seen the 4,002-square-foot residence at 104 Marlborough Road in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Built in 1957, the three-bedroom, four-bathroom residence sits on almost 2 acres and is on the market for just under $3 million.
Roy O. Allen, an architect and partner at the global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, designed the house for his family. Before he died in 1992, Allen worked on a number of the firm’s skyscrapers and towers, some rising more than 50 stories tall. But this personal project remained a low-slung single-story.
Despite changing hands over the years, most recently in 2018 for $1.75 million, the property “still feels very authentic,” explained Sotheby’s International Realty’s Joanna Rizoulis. Rizoulis is listing the open-plan home that sits on a fully fenced-in lot with a saltwater pool alongside her partner, Amy Smith-Sroka. “A lot of that is because there are several elements to the original home that remain.”
Thanks to a glass-pavilion design, the home seemingly hovers above the ground below. White brick encases just one room: a former carport converted into a living space, and now media room with blackout shades. The home’s original details include a floor-to-ceiling marble dining room wall sourced from the Rockefeller estate, a butter-yellow midcentury bathroom vanity, a chrome towel rack in the primary bathroom, and the original bar setup near the entrance — still equipped with a record player.
Even the extensive renovations that the current homeowners undertook, which included carving a guest suite out of existing space, hewed closely to the original design. Hand-crafted fluted vanities echoed the walnut-clad bar, lush marble installed in the bathrooms calls to the original dining room wall, custom lighting mimicked existing forms in the home, and specialized light switches from Buster and Punch dot the walls throughout the house.
“These pieces, which were exorbitantly expensive, still made it feel like a midcentury modern, but took it up 10 notches,” Rizoulis said. Even with sumptuous upgrades, she continued, “it’s a very warm home. You can come on in, keep your shoes on, bring your dog. It’s very easy living, but it’s very sophisticated.”
That balance is catching the eye of a wide swath of potential buyers, Rizoulis said. The residence is near a train station, meaning it has drawn interest from Manhattanites looking to decamp upstate or for a manageable suburban commute. “And they we have midcentury modern lovers,” she continued. “They’re not driven by geographics; they’re driven by style to come look at it. It’s been an incredible mix of people.”
The residence also offers a unique potential income stream, should a buyer show interest. After several film and television studios wanted to use the residence as a location for shoots, the sellers implemented a filming location fee agreement with streamers Amazon, Apple and Netflix. In "Fallout," a post-apocalyptic action show released in 2024, the Allen residence takes center stage in the very first scene. For the 2020 thriller "Hunters," actor Al Pacino kills a Nazi in the home's living room.
If the next owners wanted to continue the tradition, "it would be very easy to pick that up," Rizoulis explained.
Ultimately, the love and attention that the sellers lavished on the home could pay off: “We’re finding a lot of our buying public today, they don’t want to do a lot of work,” Rizoulis said. “And this is truly, you know, pack your overnight bag and your toothbrush and move in.”