A 40-foot glass wall
The glass folds away on summer evenings, opening the room to the sunset and Main Street below.
Three lots, three residences, one roof
MuleHaus is a family compound in Old Town Park City, steps from the Town Lift, with ski-in, ski-out access to Park City Mountain and Main Street a few minutes' walk from the front door. Old Town was built on narrow lots, one cottage to a lot. MuleHaus sits on three of them, with three separately deeded residences under one roof: 8,620 square feet, seven bedrooms, ten baths, an elevator to all five levels, and a heated garage for eight cars. You will not find that combination anywhere else in Old Town.
It was designed by OZ Architects and built by Magleby Construction to work as one home or as three. Each residence has its own entrance and full kitchen, so parents, adult children, and grandchildren each get a place of their own, and a guest room locks off with its own garage entrance. Any layout from one bedroom to seven works, and steel headers are already in the walls, so it can be opened into one house for good.
Two steel fabricators spent about a year on the custom steel alone: the doors, the floating stairs with nothing under them, every cabinet pull, and the laser-cut aspen leaf ski lockers in each residence. Ipe hardwood, among the hardest woods in the world, runs inside and out, hung without a visible nail. The architect designed the dining table for the room, and it stays with the house. The home is LEED certified with a living sedum roof, and interior glass panels carry daylight down to the lower floors.
On a summer evening the 40-foot glass wall of the great room folds away, the sunset fills the room with Main Street below, and dinner runs late until the shuffleboard table takes over. It was built for its exact spot overlooking the ski run, and after midnight it becomes the bar. When the disco ball drops, the living room turns into a private nightclub with lasers and a smoke machine. The rooftop deck has a spa and a fireplace facing the ski runs. Five fireplaces and two fire pits carry the colder nights, and the office deck takes the morning calls as the sun comes over the ridge.
In winter, ski straight to the house, where an exterior stair takes skis and boots into the ski room, so nobody tracks snow inside. The 2,386-square-foot garage holds the cars and the gear. In summer, walk to a show at the Egyptian Theatre and ride the trail system from the front door. Salt Lake City and its private terminals are 35 minutes away, and Heber Valley is closer still.
MuleHaus is offered as one home: three lots in the middle of Old Town, three deeded residences under one roof, a year of custom steel, and ski-in, ski-out access a short walk from Main Street. It cannot be replaced.