{"id":348051,"date":"2025-11-01T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:26:21","slug":"iconic-rachofsky-house-to-hit-open-market-for-23m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/348051\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Rachofsky House to hit open market for $23M"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iconic Dallas home<\/a> of art-collecting and philanthropic duo Howard and Cindy Rachofsky will hit the open market with a $23 million price tag.<\/p>\n

The Preston Road property<\/a> had been offered off-market and without an asking price since spring. Listing agent Faisal Halum with Compass informed The Dallas Morning News of the change Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a thoughtful private introduction, opening the listing allows more potential stewards to experience this landmark,\u201d Halum said. \u201cThe home embodies openness, and this step reflects that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo told The News in May the decision to sell the property was part of their estate planning.<\/p>\n

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They plan to travel more and spend time at their property in Napa Valley. They also didn\u2019t want to burden their children \u201cwith a house like that,\u201d the couple said.<\/p>\n

Designed by architect Richard Meier, the nearly 10,000-square-foot home was the site of the Two x Two gala, a joint benefit for the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.<\/p>\n

Since 1999, the gala and art auction raised $120 million for AIDS research and the Dallas Art Museum. The final gala<\/a> was held in October 2024.<\/p>\n

Iconic Rachofsky House to hit open market for $23M<\/p>\n

\"Dallas'View Gallery<\/p>\n

The couple cleared their massive art collection and furniture out to make way for the gathering.<\/p>\n

The event put Dallas\u2019 art scene on the map, and the event\u2019s guest list reads like a who\u2019s who of Hollywood glitterari. Actors Sharon Stone and Alan Cumming, as well as Dallas sports legends like Jerry Jones and Dirk Nowitzki have graced the home.<\/p>\n

Musical headliners at the swanky soir\u00e9e include Diana Ross, Ricky Martin and CeeLo Green.<\/p>\n

Howard Rachofsky wanted to live among his collection, and the house itself was a work of art. He once described the property as a tiny apartment sitting atop a museum.<\/p>\n

Built in 1996, the home at 8605 Preston Road resembles a white minimalist structure on a coal-black pedestal.<\/p>\n

The more than 9,000-square-foot home has two bedrooms and six bathrooms. It sits on more than 3.2 acres of land.<\/p>\n

Former News architecture critic David Dillon wrote that Howard Rachofsky hired Meier to design the home after seeing his High Museum of Art in Atlanta in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n

The home took 10 years to finish. There was no front stoop. The white panel front door was without a door knob. The property, at one point, also had the city\u2019s only champagne vending machine, according to News archives.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s art collection has been promised to the Dallas Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided now was as good a time as any (to sell),\u201d 81-year-old Howard Rachofsky previously told The News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic Dallas home of art-collecting and philanthropic duo Howard and Cindy Rachofsky will hit the open market…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":348052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,4329,10204,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-348051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-real-estate","11":"tag-residential-real-estate","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115474673909931326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}