In the News

Selected articles, features, and media coverage about The Tower House.

Over the years, The Tower House has drawn attention from writers, editors, architecture observers, real estate publications, and arts journalists. These stories offer outside perspectives on its architecture, history, craftsmanship, cultural associations, and continuing evolution.

Featured Coverage

Mansion Global — September 6, 2017

A Quirky Woodstock Tower House With Plenty of Psychedelic History

A national feature presenting The Tower House as John Kahn’s handmade upstate New York masterpiece, with emphasis on its circular design and connection to Jim Henson’s creative world.

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Times Union — January 5, 2022

Quirky home with ties to Muppets and Grateful Dead for sale

A Hudson Valley feature describing The Tower House as a five-story, hand-built circular home in Saugerties, shaped by John Kahn’s sculptural imagination and woodwork.

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StreetEasy — May 31, 2017

LSD, The Muppets + The Dead Collide at This Trippy Tower House in Woodstock

A colorful feature exploring the house’s unusual history, handmade architecture, spiral layout, and cultural connections to the Woodstock-era creative world.

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Apartment Therapy — June 1, 2017

Peek Inside an Artist’s Quirky Tower House in the Catskills

A design-focused feature highlighting The Tower House as John Kahn’s largest sculpture, built from repurposed materials including slate, copper, and redwood.

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Buildings of New England — September 8, 2022

Trippy Tower House // 2002

An architecture-focused feature describing The Tower House as one of the most unique buildings the writer had encountered, emphasizing its repurposed materials, five-floor cylindrical form, and identity as Kahn’s largest sculpture and life’s work.

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Upstater — October 27, 2015

Saugerties Tower House, $675,000

A regional real estate and lifestyle feature presenting The Tower House through the lens of Catskills creativity, architectural whimsy, handmade design, and local character.

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New York Post — June 2, 2017

New York’s trippiest home could be yours for $1.2 million

A broader New York media feature covering The Tower House during its 2017 sale period and describing it as one of the state’s most unusual homes.

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Related Coverage

Hudson Valley One — August 31, 2023

Iconic artist honored in Hudson Valley gallery retrospective

A major profile of John Kahn connected to his retrospective exhibition, with background on his early artistic career and collaborators.

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Chronogram — September 1, 2023

Free Former: John Kahn’s “IKAHN: Arc of an Artist” Exhibition

An arts feature on John Kahn’s retrospective at MARS Creative Factory, situating him as a sculptor, inventor, and Jim Henson collaborator.

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