James McClain Mansions that populate the hills of Santa Barbara and the surrounding environs — Montecito, Carpinteria, Hope Ranch — are famously known for their Spanish Revival and Mediterranean architecture, but there are also world-class modernist gems there, too, midcentury icons like Richard Neutra’s Tremaine House and the Erdman House by Lutah Maria Riggs.
And then there’s the shelter magazine-published Barton Myers confection, known simply as the Montecito Residence, which recently sold for $7.2 million.Though it sports plenty of midcentury hallmarks — soaring walls of glass, a functionally minimalist floorplan, seamless indoor/outdoor living — the Montecito Residence was built barely a decade ago, completed in 2009 for Chicagoans.
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