The Bailey House by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg Listed for $2.7 Million
Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 4 Interior: 384 m² / 4,133 sq ft Lot: 16.19 ha / 40 acres
Amenities: 40-acre avocado grove with 900+ trees, 360-degree views, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, site-sourced stone walls, sculptural timber beams, handcrafted woodwork, multiple fireplaces, built-in furniture, mature rural setting northeast of San Diego.
Kendrick Bangs Kellogg’s Bailey House in Valley Center, California, has entered escrow after being listed publicly for the first time with Agents of Architecture for $2,695,000.
Set high on a 40-acre parcel northeast of San Diego, the residence sits within a mature avocado grove planted by the original owners after they purchased the land in 1972.
10650 Old Castle Rd is a rare example of Kendrick Bangs Kellogg’s organic architecture, a highly expressive approach that sought to merge building, land, and craft into a single architectural experience.
Known as the Bailey House, the home was designed by Kellogg in 1984 and took six years to complete.
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The residence spans approximately 4,133 square feet, with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and expansive floor-to-ceiling glass framing 360-degree views across the surrounding landscape.
Kellogg was a Southern California architect whose work developed outside the more polished conventions of mid-century modernism. Born in San Diego, he became known for a highly sculptural form of organic architecture, often using timber, glass, stone, and irregular geometries to create buildings that appeared to grow from their sites.
His work is frequently associated with buildings that blur the boundary between architecture and landscape, including the Doolittle House in Joshua Tree, the Onion House in Hawaii, and other custom residences across California and beyond.
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His houses are frequently associated with the landscapes of Southern California and the American West, where architecture, terrain, light, and craft are treated as part of the same composition.
Rather than sitting apart from its site, the Bailey House appears to grow from the hillside, with sweeping timber forms, irregular geometries, and rock walls sourced from the surrounding property.
Inside, the architectural language continues through curved woodwork, sculptural joinery, and a fluid sequence of spaces. The home’s timber beams, stone walls, built-in furniture, and large expanses of glass create an interior that feels both handcrafted and deeply connected to the land around it.
The Bailey family purchased the raw land in the early 1970s with the intention of returning to their agrarian roots, planting more than 900 avocado trees across the property. Kellogg was later commissioned to design the residence, creating a home that responded directly to the hillside, the grove, and the broad views of inland Southern California.
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Its first public listing brought renewed attention to one of Kellogg’s lesser-known residential works, highlighting a property that combines architectural significance with an unusually intact rural setting. Now in escrow, the Bailey House stands as both a private residence and a rare document of late 20th-century organic architecture in Southern California.
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