410 Hudson Road

Hudson Road gives up almost nothing. A gap in the tree line, barely wider than the drive itself, and then six hundred feet of pavement bending back through hardwood canopy. You pass a neighbor's lily pond. You cross a wooden bridge over the creek. Only then does the house appear.

Behind it, a second bridge, this one on foot, over granite and running water to the pool. Two miles from Haywood Mall, and you would never believe it standing at the railing.

“Hemingway meets Contemporary.” That is the owner's own description of the house she designed, and she was being precise rather than clever. The shell is light and volume: vaulted white ceilings, walls of glass under transoms, custom narrow-plank oak, stained darker at the room edges, carrying the light from room to room. The weight comes from a fieldstone chimney that climbs two full stories under a hand-hewn timber mantel, and from an antique bar downstairs that started life in an English pub.

Six thousand five hundred and fifty-six finished square feet across three levels, and more than a thousand more outside it in deck and covered porch behind glass railings.

Built in 1986 and held by one family since 1993. The owner holds more than eighty patents and is the largest individual patent holder in South Carolina. Among them, the free fall ride, the mechanism behind Tower of Terror, Giant Drop and Demon Drop. For years the property opened for fundraisers across Greenville, and the music happened beside the pool.

The numbers

• 4 bedrooms
• 6,556 finished square feet across three levels: 4,375 on the main, 1,000 upstairs and 1,181 finished on the terrace level
• 3.00 wooded acres, a flag lot with twenty feet of frontage on Hudson Road
• 1,000+ square feet of deck and porch
• 3-car garage
• Built 1986, one family since 1993
• No HOA or review board; county restrictions only
• County water and public sewer; three HVAC systems, all heat pumps; roof replaced 2023