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The coveted Sacramento neighborhood of South Land Park has long been a showcase for mid-century modern and tidy ranch homes, but a custom 1978 house for sale breaks the mold.
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Elevated on an all-wood frame and ringed by tall evergreens, the home feels like a slice of Lake Tahoe in the middle of a dense suburb. Built by renowned architect Roger Scott on a deep lot, the property leans more toward forest cabin than tract house.
“It’s just wood everywhere — wood floors, wood beams,” said listing agent LuAnn Shikasho of eXp Realty, who is marketing the home at 4520 S. Land Park Drive. “It feels like a cabin. (The backyard) is an oasis in the city where you can feel like you’re in the forest. It’s so quite here.”
Sacramento appraiser and housing market analyst Ryan Lundquist said the property fits the neighborhood’s design roots — while also standing out even in an area known for architectural character.
“On one hand, this property fits in well in South Land Park because the neighborhood is full of mid-century modern homes, but this is MCM on steroids, which makes it really unique,” Lundquist said via email and text. “The pilings in the rear of the house are not something we usually see in the neighborhood. It’s sort of a mid-century modern-meets-cabin type of property.”
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom house spans about 1,668 square feet, according to Shikasho’s team, and sits on a roughly 0.23-acre lot. With only one owner in 48 years, the house hit the market Friday for the first time. The asking price is $675,000.
The structure’s raised design and heavy use of wood set the tone from the moment you step onto the property, with sunlight filtering through mature trees and grounds that feel more like a walk in the woods than a typical city backyard.
“It was built specifically for the original owner — he had architect Roger Scott draw it up in the ’70s and it was finished in 1978,” Shikasho said.
Scott, a Sacramento architect whose work spanned the 1970s into the early 1990s, designed the home during a period when custom houses often reflected their sites more directly than the cookie-cutter floor plans that later became common in many suburbs.
Lundquist said Scott’s work in the region can push the mid-century modern aesthetic beyond what buyers typically expect — and that this home is an example of that approach.
“Roger Scott has other homes in the region, and some of them also take mid-century modern to the next level,” Lundquist said.
The trade-off, he added, is that buyers should be prepared for updates on this property.
“This house needs attention as it is mostly original, and it only has two rooms meant as bedrooms, but technical bedroom count is likely less of an issue here,” Lundquist said. “A buyer will see the vision of what this property can become.”
Shikasho said the layout reflects its era and its custom-built nature, describing a more open interior than many buyers might expect in a conventional suburban home. There are only a couple interior doors.
“It’s pretty open, with bedroom walls that aren’t closed — everything is kind of open,” she said.
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The setting remains one of the home’s most distinctive selling points: a mature, established pocket of Sacramento known for larger lots and long-time residents, near William Land Park, the Sacramento River and downtown dining.
South Land Park’s housing stock includes many mid-century homes — a style that has drawn sustained interest from buyers who want clean lines, indoor-outdoor flow and design details that feel intentional. Scott’s design here, Lundquist said, offers that sensibility in a more dramatic form.
“This home is not a bland stucco box like we see in so many areas, and the buyer is going to have bragging rights to own something a little different,” Lundquist said.
The entry sequence to the house screams originality, too. An elevated timber boardwalk, or gangway, guides guests to the front door. There are several parking spots in front of its woodsy front yard. A driveway curves around one side of the house and runs down to a generous carport in the back.
The home unfolds over three levels, with a sun-lit, atrium-like kitchen on the first level where there is a built-in bench and breakfast nook. A small set of stairs leads to a large living space staged for a dining and family room with access to a spacious balcony that overlooks the yard draws views of the neighborhood from above.
The primary bedroom and bathroom occupies the top level as copious loft over the living room. Attractive octagonal skylights brighten the stairway up to the living quarters. The geometric detail carries through to a unique eight-sided bedroom window. An enormous walk-in closet has enough room to put in a vanity or a work desk.
California Modern elements are found throughout, such as a hanging globe light and a red, rotary dial telephone on a kitchen wall.
Outside, the backyard offers a great perspective of the unique angles and distinctive roof design of the home. A paved path curves down to a spacious spot ideal for a fire pit, outdoor kitchen or hot tub.
For architecture-minded buyers, the appeal may come down to originality and provenance — not just finishes.
While newly built houses can imitate earlier styles, Shikasho said, they rarely replicate the quirks and ambition of a one-off home designed for a particular owner and site. In a neighborhood where many houses share similar footprints and rooflines, the raised structure, heavy wood presence, geometry and cabin-like feel make the property a standout.
It also presents a familiar Northern California equation: location and atmosphere — plus a project.
Lundquist said the right buyer will likely be someone who appreciates design and is willing to bring the home into a new chapter without stripping away what makes it different.
“A buyer will see the vision of what this property can become once it is renovated,” he said.
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