The Novato Round House, visible from Highway 101, is being marketed as part of a two-acre Harkle Road property with seven dwellings and a $3.3 million asking price.

On Harkle Road in Novato, the house most people know is the one they do not stop for. From Highway 101 it reads as a round roof on the hillside, a few seconds of peripheral architecture between exits, then it is gone. The listing now attached to it is slower and larger: KGO-TV reported (external source, opens in a new tab) that the two-acre property is being offered for $3.3 million, with the rotating Round House bundled into a seven-dwelling sale that also includes the structure known as the Potato Chip House.

The Round House is still the piece that pulls the eye. KGO-TV dated the build to 1963 and described a three-bedroom, two-bath home whose circular frame can turn as much as 320 degrees. Angelo Baglieri, the Marcus & Millichap agent on the listing, gave the station the machinery under the spectacle: old washing-machine motors driving a belt, an old railroad track below the house, and utilities routed through a swivel at the center so the building can move without being cut loose from its services.

The hill has a longer Harkleroad vocabulary than one rotating building. In an earlier Eichler Network feature on the Round House (external source, opens in a new tab), Sam Harkleroad appears as a self-taught Marin designer-builder whose experimental homes gathered above Novato. That account also gives the everyday consequence of a landmark seen from the freeway: people come looking, and Harkle Road has limited parking for the attention the house draws.

What changes now is not the silhouette. It is ownership and scale. Harold Pozzi, Harkleroad's grandson and the current owner, told KGO-TV the property has become too much to maintain. Baglieri told the station the likely audience could include builders looking at the land, investors looking at rental income from the other homes, and architecture buyers looking at the round house itself.

Tomorrow morning, the freeway view will probably be unchanged: roofline, hillside, gone. Up the road, the more important fact is that a family-built cluster of homes, not only its most photographed one, is being priced for whoever takes the hill next.