A Stone and Glass Contemporary
Five Miles from Aspen Slopes

What: Five bedrooms, five bathrooms in more than 10,000 square feet on 14.8 acres.

Where: Castle Creek, Colo., about five miles west of Aspen.

Amenities: Media and exercise rooms, gourmet kitchen, library, three-car garage, pasture for horses, wine cellar, 30-foot-high, pitched roofs on most rooms.

Asking Price: $14.5 million

Opening Bid*: $13.9 million

Listing Agents: Terry Rogers, Snowmass Real Estate Co., 800-898-4535, Ext. 101.

Due Diligence: This property consists of 10 small units -- the owner calls them "pavilions" -- connected by enclosed glass links or walkways. Each unit, with rusticated limestone exteriors and blue stone interiors, is a single room of between 400 and 1,000 square feet. Owner Doug Rivers, a 49-year-old professor of political science at Stanford University, and his wife, Sarah, bought the property in 2000 and says the house took about three years to build. Mr. Rivers, who also runs an Internet polling and market-research firm near Palo Alto, Calif., declined to say how much the land or house cost. Washington, D.C., architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen -- a former draftsman for Philip Johnson and the designer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's home on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts -- designed the contemporary home. It includes floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the surrounding forest. The home is a short drive to the Aspen and Aspen Highlands ski resorts. Mr. Rivers says the couple is selling the property because work keeps them in California much of the year.

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