What You Get for ... $1.3 Million

WHAT: A three-bedroom midcentury modern with two and a half baths, and a two-bedroom guesthouse

HOW MUCH: $1,300,000

SIZE: 6,800 square feet (total, with 4,000 square feet in the main house)

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $191.17

SETTING: This house is 14 miles from downtown Atlanta in Amberwood, a residential neighborhood known in part for its midcentury modern architecture. This 1962 house, behind a row of towering trees on a winding main road, is by Robert Green, who had been an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright. There’s a shopping center a mile away, and two more in nearby Toco Hills, a larger neighborhood with more commerce. Several schools, public and private, are also within a mile of the house.

INDOORS: The main house is an angular one-level structure featuring open common areas with an abundance of windows and extensive use of both stone and Tidewater red cypress. Most of the floors are poured concrete with a dark-red stain, a detail Green borrowed from Wright. The layout was designed to resemble an arrow, with a narrow corridor of rooms opening to a large, arrowhead-shape great room. Two rows of angled built-in bench seating in the great room face a large stone fireplace set into the middle of the room like a column; on the other side of the fireplace is a wet bar and a dining area. The cypress ceiling is pitched.

Cypress bookshelves and cabinetry are built into the walls of the hallway leading from the great room and kitchen to the three bedrooms. The master has an en-suite bathroom reached by a narrow hallway; its tiled shower is off another little hallway, several steps down. In the 1970s, a carport was converted into a family room with tiled floors and French doors opening to a courtyard and pool.

The property has three other buildings clustered around the pool: A garage with a stone-floor recreation room above it, a pool house with a sauna, bathroom and full kitchen, and a two-bedroom 1,700-square-foot guesthouse.

OUTDOOR SPACE: The property has a professionally built playground in the back, and a broad front yard. Trees on the lot include Japanese maples, crepe myrtles, hardwoods and magnolias.

TAXES: $6,849

CONTACT: Michael Redwine, Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, (404) 394-4071; atlantamoderns.com

GRAFTON, VT.

WHAT: A four-bedroom bowed-roof cape, with two bathrooms, on 35 acres

HOW MUCH: $1,290,000

SIZE: 3,064 square feet

PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $421

SETTING: Grafton is a town of about 600 people near the Green Mountains of southern Vermont, 40 miles from the state’s border with Massachusetts. The town’s historic character has been carefully preserved. Nineteenth-century houses line streets around the town center, where a steepled white church stands a half-block from a general store in operation since the 1840s, and a nearby factory has been making hand-crafted cheese since the 1890s. This house is encircled by 35 mostly wooded acres. Neighboring houses are also on large lots. Basic shopping can be done in town; for more ambitious grocery trips, the owners drive 25 minutes to Springfield, Vt.

INDOORS: The house, a two-story bowed-roof cape, was built in 2002 by its owner, who runs a reproduction and restoration business focusing on 18th-century architecture. Virtually every detail in the house was made by hand, including planed wide-plank pine floors and door hardware. Even the kitchen’s slate floors were split by hand. Portions of the house use framing reclaimed from an 18th-century house in Cornish, N.H., including joists and ceiling beams.

Period details include raised paneling in the front parlor’s fireplace wall, wainscoting and a built-in hutch in the dining room. The family room was modeled after an old-fashioned keeping room and has a six-by-five-foot fireplace with a baking oven. Kitchen appliances are stainless steel, and the counters are a dark soapstone. The four bedrooms are upstairs. The master has an en-suite bathroom.