The property of overdue famed photographer Ansel Adams is up on the market at a $5.4 million asking value.

The house has 4 bedrooms and 3 and a part baths and is within the picturesque West Clay Park house of San Francisco. The house, which was once in-built 1902, the similar yr Adams was once born, features a salon annex that the photographer designed himself and added in 1929. Adams lived on the San Francisco house till shifting his circle of relatives to the Monterey Peninsula in California in 1957.

“All over Adams’ possession and the next years, this room transported the spirit of the nice residential salons of Europe thru its existence as a gathering level for town’s inventive skills filling the room with classical tune and operatic music. This wing of the house has a loft-like, romantic artwork studio with sitting room and the main suite with a sitting house and outlooks to the lawn,” the Sotheby’s checklist for the home reads.

The three,810-square-foot house options an outside dwelling house, a wooden burning hearth, terrace, glass atrium eating house, and a loft-like artwork studio, the checklist describes. The lengthy driveway resulting in the house is surrounded by means of “a terraced lawn design by means of the famend panorama architect Topher Delaney.”

Adams was once famend for his panorama images, however he was once additionally a grasp of method. With Fred Archer, Adams advanced the Zone Gadget, which can be utilized to seize a large scale of tones inside of a unmarried symbol. His sharp eye and a spotlight to element in every shadow and spotlight is a part of why he’s remembered as one of the crucial influential panorama photographers in historical past.

It’s now not exhausting to consider the foundation Adams may have taken within the very house up on the market lately. Only a brief stroll to each the water and the Presidio of San Francisco, a countrywide park, he would have get right of entry to to San Francisco’s good looks just by strolling out the door. Even inside of the house, the solar shined during the lobby, huge home windows let in tons of herbal mild and perspectives of the Golden Gate Bridge, which was once first made out of 1933 to 1937 whilst Adams lived within the San Francisco house.

Adams passed on to the great beyond in 1984, however stays well known for his iconic pictures.

Symbol credit: Images courtesy of David Duncan Livingston