$3 Million Homes in South Carolina, New York and Arizona

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Honored by local historical association and preservation groups for its sensitive updating, this property retains its original heart-pine floors, blown glass, hand-carved mantels, decorative ironwork and an ingenious dry-well system that has prevented flooding through centuries of tempests. The system, designed by the building’s 18th-century architect, John Fenwick, has proved to be effective over centuries. There’s an absence of standing water in the basement and gas lanterns have burned in a passageway under the building during the worst weather. (You still need flood insurance if you want to get a mortgage, though.)

The house is in the South of Broad neighborhood, a block above the Battery and its waterfront promenade and the photogenic White Point Garden. It is a block west of the shops along East Bay Street and less than 10 minutes on foot from Broad Street and its boutiques and restaurants.

Size: 5,905 square feet (total for both buildings)

Price per square foot: $507

Indoors: Beyond the small entry vestibule is a large, skylighted parlor with exposed-brick and plaster walls that were uncovered in the renovation and finished by a master artisan. The aged floors were steam buffed and oiled to retain as much of the wood fiber as possible. Windows have original pocket shutters or fanlights, and a fountain-like niche contains vintage statuary. The fireplaces here and throughout the house could be restored to a functional condition but are currently decorative.

In the adjacent dining room, where china closets are built on either side of the fireplace, the dazzler is a huge crystal chandelier. A door next to a large casement window with a fanlight leads into the kitchen. Here, the flooring is stone tile imported from France, and simple black cabinets are topped with granite slabs. Long, open shelves are mounted on an exposed-brick wall above them, and an AGA stove sits in a corner, near a farmhouse sink trimmed in Moroccan tiles.

The bedrooms begin on the second floor, starting with a master that has a fireplace, glass doors opening to the balcony and a private bathroom with a claw-foot tub, a standup marble shower and a vanity with turned legs. A nearby sitting room with a black marble fireplace also has balcony access.

Ceiling heights begin to descend as you reach the third floor, where both bedrooms have a fireplace and share a hall bathroom with a marble walk-in shower and a double sink. There is also a laundry room.

On the fourth floor, the roofline removes headroom but adds character (if any more were needed) to the final two bedrooms.

Outdoor space: The gas-lighted under-house passageway is introduced by a historically significant wrought-iron gate and leads to a brick-walled rear courtyard surrounded by garden beds and mature trees. The carriage house — which includes a kitchen and living room, as well as two bedrooms and one and half bathrooms — also opens to the garden.

Taxes: $12,249

Contact: Paul J. Quigley, Century 21 Properties Plus, 843-343-5061; century21.com

Grace Knowlton, a sculptor famed for her minimalist spheres produced in a variety of sizes and materials, lived on this property carved from an estate in Snedens Landing, an enclave on the Hudson River, 12 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. Ms. Knowlton, who died in December at 88, occupied the converted barn and rented the other outbuildings to fellow artists, who made use of the studios and kilns. Her own works ornamented the main house and grounds; several orbs remain and are available to buy.

Snedens Landing, a small, historic neighborhood in the hamlet of Palisades in Rockland County, has long attracted creative people. In the last century it was a summer colony for writers, actors and musicians, including John Dos Passos, Aaron Copland and Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. More recently, Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray and Uma Thurman have been among the disproportionate number of famous people with houses there. The area is purely residential, but convenient to businesses in Piermont, N.Y. (about four miles north), Orangeburg, N.Y. (about five miles northwest), and Closter, N.J. (about five miles southwest).

Size: 5,191 square feet (combined livable space)

Price per square foot: $578

Indoors: In 1968, the architect Hugh Hardy renovated the wood-sided barn building as Ms. Knowlton’s living quarters. The structure has a large, open space on the main level. The interior walls and ceiling are white-painted clapboard or stained-wood or molded paneling, and the flooring is wood planking or ceramic tile.

Cabinetry with butcher-block countertops defines the perimeter of the central kitchen, which has a vaulted ceiling. A wood-burning stove on one side anchors an informal dining and seating area. On the other side, the area flows into a living room with a ceiling-high bookcase and a second wood stove.

The main level also includes a dining room that Ms. Knowlton used as her studio. Light pours in from a mullioned wall of glass and an assortment of other windows, including a pair of octagonal portholes. The primary bedroom is on this level, along with an en suite bathroom with variegated shades of square, brown tile on the bathtub wall.

A second bedroom with a skylight occupies its own level, halfway up the staircase. Sections of the upper level are lofted over the main floor, including a bedroom that overlooks the living room and has open beams and a skylight

The property also includes a two-bedroom, one-bathroom gabled 1880s house that was rebuilt in the 1980s after a fire. The open-plan lower level has wide-plank floors and a wood-burning stove.

The remaining outbuildings include a brick machine shop that now contains multiple art studios; a workshop building with a pottery; and a small clapboard house that was used as a yoga studio.

Outdoor space: The four-plus acres were originally part of a Civil War-era estate called Seven Oaks and occupy a bucolic hilltop setting with gardens, seasonal river views and outdoor kilns.

Taxes: $65,662

Contact: Amy Samett, Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty, 845-596-0777; sothebysrealty.com

This house in the Shadow Estates subdivision in West Sedona offers 360-degree views of red-rock mountains. It is near the top of Soldiers Pass Corridor, less than five minutes on foot from the nearest trailhead and a mile and half north of a bicycle park that encourages all sorts of flashy maneuvers. Sedona’s central business district, with its boutiques, cafes, breweries and crystals, is about three miles southeast.

Size: 5,998 square feet

Price per square foot: $499

Indoors: The home was built for a distributor of cabinets, who used it as a showcase for his various lines. In addition to its lavish amount of storage, it has mostly foot-thick exterior walls and radiant-heated travertine and Australian cypress flooring.

Glass pocket doors between the living room and family room provide a sense of flow even when closed. Both rooms have gas-burning fireplaces with mantels constructed from gnarled alligator juniper. The family room opens to a kitchen with paneled wood cabinetry (a lot of it) topped in reddish granite, including an island with an embedded cooktop and a wine cooler, and a sidebar with a heated counter and a second sink. The appliances are from Wolf (including two convection ovens), Bosch (including a built-in countertop food processor) and Sub-Zero (including a camouflaged refrigerator-freezer). Seating is at the island or in a windowed breakfast nook. There is also an adjacent formal dining room with a crystal chandelier.

Another set of glass doors connects the living room to a deck, creating an enormous, indoor-outdoor space.

Off the family room is a library with ceiling-high bookcases. Double wood doors lead to a carpeted media room furnished with a wall of cabinetry that holds a 75-inch curved Samsung television and leather reclining chairs. The library also connects to a half bathroom with purple plaster walls and an alligator juniper vanity with a glass bowl sink.

The master suite is on the main level. The bedroom includes a private terrace leading out to the pool and a gas-burning fireplace with a travertine hearth and a copper hood. A stand-alone copper tub in the master bathroom fills from a shower head embedded in the ceiling 10 feet overhead. Matching vanities line opposite bathroom walls, with a travertine-faced shower between them. The walk-in closet is wrapped in floor-to-ceiling cabinets and has two granite-topped storage islands.

Also on the main level is a large office that walks out to a private deck.

The two guest bedrooms are part of a self-contained apartment on the walkout lower level. Each has an en suite bathroom and use of a shared kitchenette and an exercise room. (One of the rooms also has its own wet bar.) A secure room that is about 100 square feet holds a safe. An elevator with a cherry-wood interior runs between floors.

Outdoor space: There are five decks in all, including one with a fountain sculpture shaped like a trio of dolphins that deposits water into a 45-foot-long lap pool. Parking is in a three-car garage.

Taxes: $11,370, plus an annual $760 homeowner fee

Contact: Dennis Tribble or Janie Tribble, Redstone Sedona Properties, 928-300-6984; redstonesedona.com

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