Mushroom House

And Just Like That, The Mushroom House Is Gone

By Karen Eubank / January 7, 2026 /

A year after news broke that auto mogul Clay Cooley and his wife, Lisa, quietly assembled three architecturally significant Park Cities properties, demolition has begun on the most distinctive of them all — Highland Park’s so-called Mushroom House. We all knew demolition was imminent, just not how imminent. I realized this week it had been…

Wednesday WTF: Howdy Podnah, Want a Mushroom?

By Bethany Erickson / November 1, 2017 /

This week’s Wednesday WTF has me conflicted. I mean, the house is definitely unusual and shaped like several mushrooms, but it’s also really kind of cool. Meet the Mushroom House. Located in Pittsford, New York, it is 4,100 square feet of IDK and 68 square feet of WTF, and was built between 1970 and 1972,…