Joe Montana's former Wine Country estate hits market for $7M

A 20-acre property at 18345 Highway 128 in Calistoga is listed for $6.95 million and includes four structures. The main home has two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, with tall barnlike ceilings, a dramatic formal dining room, and a primary suite featuring a gas fireplace and a glassed-in bathroom with a deep soaking tub. A multilevel patio connects to a pool and an outdoor kitchen. A separate pool house provides one bedroom and one bathroom and includes retractable glass walls. A third building, designed by William Turnbull Jr., appears externally like a vintage barn but contains modern living space with one bedroom, one bathroom, and art studio space.

"Resting on 20 Wine Country acres, 18345 Highway 128 in Calistoga offers a compound fit for a Hall of Fame football legend - in this case, the one and only Joe Montana. But Montana's former vineyard estate, which is on the market now at $6.95 million, is more than a sports fan's dream; it's also a property that should entice lovers of history and iconic Bay Area architecture."

"The listing describes the property as including four structures. Among those four, the main home is a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom abode with soaring, barnlike ceilings, a dramatic formal dining room and a primary suite with a gas fireplace and a glassed-in bathroom featuring a deep soaking tub. Outside, a multilevel patio leads to a pool, an outdoor kitchen and the second structure: a one-bedroom, one-bathroom pool house with retractable glass walls."

"Both the main house and the pool house share design sensibilities with the third building on the estate. In an email, listing agent Henry Schlangen of Corcoran Icon Properties told SFGATE that this building, which from its exterior looks like a vintage barn, is in fact another living space. The work of "starchitect" William Turnbull Jr., the inside of this barnlike dwelling is modern, offering one bedroom, one bathroom and "art studio space.""

"Turnbull, most famous for his work on Sea Ranch, created structures that worked in harmony with their settings, as this "barn" - added to the estate's pastoral acreage in the 1990s - certainly does. Commune Design explained the "serenity" in Turnbull's work was influenced "by his upbringing on a New Jersey dairy farm," and that his buildings showcase the functional yet graceful characteristics we might ascribe to a barn. Turnbull's buildings are "humble, frugal, natural, and purposeful, sitting on land as if nature had made a place for them there all along," wrote Commune Design in a 2024 post."

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