After 59 years, family selling one-of-a-kind northside mid-century-modern
Some people called the mid-century-modern residence at 252 W. Beverly Dr. in Butler-Tarkington "the Woods House" in a nod to architect Clyde E. Woods and his family, who have owned it for 59 years. The family simply referred to it as "252." And then the neighborhood kids weighed in. Tickled by the way the pyramidal rooflines echoed a certain fast-food restaurant's 1980s architecture, they christened the residence "the Pizza Hut House." "We would walk home from [School 86 across from Hinkle Fieldhouse] and they would tease me because I lived in a house that looked like a Pizza Hut," said Dr. Aubaine Woods-Staples, 51, Clyde Woods' daughter and a pediatrician. Those with an eye for standout architecture will beg to differ. Inspired in part by Japanese architecture, the 1967 mid-century-modern home has three bedrooms and three bathrooms and a mint green and stone exterior. The house easily nestles into its woodsy surroundings near a ravine. A footbridge leads to the front door, and a balcony extends beneath the treetops. Woods-Staples calls it a "literal treehouse" – one that's on sale for the first time, listed at $425,000. She has fond memories of the house where she grew up. "It was
