A private home designed by the late architect I.M. Pei was listed for sale at $22 million, making it the most expensive publicly listed home in Fort Worth as of Apr. 10.
The property is notable due to its architectural pedigree and rarity, as Pei rarely accepted residential commissions. The estate’s appearance on the market is expected to draw attention from buyers both locally and beyond.
Commissioned in 1969 by oil heiress Anne Burnett Tandy and her husband Charles Tandy, the roughly 19,000-square-foot mansion sits on about four acres in Westover Hills. It has remained within the family for over five decades. The listing agent is Ashley Mooring of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty.
The mansion features seven bedrooms, three kitchens, multiple living and dining spaces, two climate-controlled wine cellars, a dedicated art gallery, a pool, and a putting green. A key feature is its garden room with a sloping steel-and-glass ceiling filtered through a wood lattice—a signature element of Pei’s design style focused on geometry and natural light.
Pei described his vision for the house as creating a space suitable for “two people — or two or three hundred,” according to an interview he gave House and Garden magazine in 1970. After Charles Tandy died in 1978 and Anne Tandy in 1980, their daughter Anne Marion lived there until her death in 2020.
Pei won the Pritzker Prize in 1983 and passed away at age 102 in 2019. He is believed to have designed only two other private homes in the United States: one still owned by his family in Katonah, New York; and another known as the William L. Slayton House in Washington D.C.
