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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

HOUSE TOUR: Famous Architect’s Only North Fork Creation For Sale

Andrew Geller, famous for building off-the-wall modernistic vacation homes on Hamptons beaches in the 1960s, died this past Christmas — and his rare design in Mattituck is on the market.

One of the rarest designs from renowned Brooklyn-born architect Andrew Geller, who died on Christmas day at 87, is currently on the real estate market. The $450,000 three-bedroom home is located on the corner of Grand Avenue and Knollwood Lane in Mattituck. The house was built in 1960 and was used by the designer for one year before John and Auriele Stack bought the house in 1962, first as a summer residence, then a full-time home after an addition — also designed by Geller — in 1982. The original barn-like structure features a one-of-a-kind great room, with angled walls, cathedral ceilings and plenty of natural light through huge windows — almost as is someone grabbed the roof of a log cabin and stretched the entire structure toward the …

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