lap pool

The rest of the small backyard holds a raised deck outside their kitchen, an office space where both Hannah and Hayden work, a narrow lap pool and postage-stamp-size lawn of St. Augustine grass where Silas and dog Dizzy can play.

It is undeniably lavish: Five bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms, with high ceilings, polished countertops, hardwood floors, and a stately patio on the bank of a lap pool.

Besides transforming the adjacent stables into a four-bedroom guesthouse and installing a lap pool on the sloping two-acre grounds, his main concession to modernity was upgrading the kitchen, which sits at the rear of the house on the first floor, beside the dining room — and adding a bathroom on each of the four floors.

During the pandemic, when Miriam Leitko couldn’t swim because pools were closed, the lifelong swimmer built a lap pool at her home in Willis, Texas.

Like all 21c properties, the 10-storey hotel will double as a contemporary art museum, with 14,000 square feet of exhibition space, a museum shop, two restaurants and an athletic and swim club, along with a lap pool, hot tub, sauna and steam room.