This home is in mint condition and was updated in 2003 with new kitchen appliances, wood floors, lighting fixtures, custom blinds on all but one windows and four flagstone patios were added in the front and back. It sits on a picture-perfect lot in desirable Uptown Sedona, an easy walking distance to shops, restaurants, spas & hiking. And it's GREEN with natural materials galore, lots of tree coverage around the house to keep it cool in the summer & because of its central location, you can leave your car at home.
You enter the front yard through a wrought iron gate that announces your arrival with a ring from the gate bell. A picket fence surrounds the property and frames the park-like setting that gets its lush beauty from the flower gardens, pond, wonderful shade trees and green grass. A covered flagstone porch provides views from the front of the house . This is one of four well placed flagstone patios that offer a wonderful place to sit out or dine and enjoy the Sedona lifestyle. The largest of the four patios is in the back yard and it has a convenient BBQ (with gas line).
The pine tongue-and-groove ceilings and flooring really make this house a home adding warmth & richness to the ambiance. The exceptional wood burning rock fireplace is the heart of the home in the spacious great room and it brings the outdoors in. The large windows look to red rock views and a professionally landscaped yard. There is a beautiful built-in cabinet to your left as you leave the living room and go into the kitchen and there is a door off the living room to the flagstone patio adjacent to the master bedroom. This home has an open floor plan - the great room and kitchen share a wooden breakfast bar and the dining room is off the great room.
The kitchen is very pleasing to the eye with natural pine varnished kitchen cabinets and countertops. There is a narrow wooden shelf for your knickknacks and a band of head casing to show off all your wares. The kitchen is light & bright with a nice sized skylight and you look out a multi-paned window at the sink into a large private courtyard.
There is a large walk-in pantry off the kitchen combined with the laundry room which leads out to the back courtyard. The spacious master bedroom is accessed from this side of the house. It has French doors leading out to its own flagstone patio, a built-in headboard with shelves, picture windows framing the headboard and faux painted walls that contrast nicely with the warm pine floors & ceilings. The master bathroom is a sunny yellow color with tiled counters & floors and a shower opening to a sunken tub. There are his & her sinks and convenient built-ins.
The dining room leads to both the guest suite through a Dutch door with stained glass windows and a large office room through French doors. Both the guest suite, which offers its own private bathroom and office, can be conveniently closed off from the rest of the house. The split floor plan and layout allow for effortless opportunities to create “private spaces” throughout. The second bedroom looks out through pleasing multi-paned windows into a picturesque yard.
The office has doors leading out to the back patio which is partially covered. This room is spacious with built-in shelves along one wall and a central skylight. A studio, family room or media room is also an ideal use for this room. It opens to a light & bright eclectic in-law apartment that features a fully equipped kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. This apartment has a wonderful feel and offers the same warm, inviting elements found in the rest of this one-of-a-kind home. There is a flagstone patio with easy access to a Jacuzzi off the apartment.
Historic Significance of this Home
This home is designated as the City of Sedona Landmark No. 13 - Dr. Williamson House, 1949. It is perhaps the first to be built in the “Sedona Sub-division”. The “Sedona Sub-division” was developed by Earl Van Deren and is recognized as Sedona’s first sub-division.
Lee Van Deren, cattleman, arrived to put his children in the
Dr. Williamson was retired when he moved to Sedona but because there were no other doctors in town at the time, he occasionally saw patients in a make shift office in his garage.
The Williamsons lived in the home until 1968 when Mrs. Williamson, then widow, sold to Oma Bird. Oma and her husband built the Oak Creek Tavern in 1945. Mrs. Bird used the house as a home for her brother and mother for a few years and then sold. A series of owners held property until 1992 when actress Deborah Walley move in, living there until her death in 2001. Walley is best known for her “Gidget” films and roles in several Disney films and teen “beach blanket” type films in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The builder and masons are unknown although two anecdotal memories by people living in the area at the time are of Elmer Purtymun as builder and the Cook brothers as the masons. Both the Purtymun and Cook families are significant Sedona Pioneer families who built many native rock structures. The Dr. Williamson home is an excellent example of the vernacular architecture style of Sedona homes built in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
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