Check out Lake Norman’s mansion of glass, which sold for millions
Ted and Beverly Corriher have sold their glass Lake Norman mansion after two years on the market.
Marty Lee, a longtime real estate investor in North Carolina and Texas, bought the three-story, 6,500-square-foot home for $4.2 million on May 29, Catawba County property tax records show.
The mansion graces the tip of a Lake Norman peninsula on Harbor Circle, off Kiser Island Road and N.C. 150 in Terrell, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte.
The home is a Lake Norman landmark, an oasis and “architectural marvel” known for its 153 panes of glass, Lee told The Charlotte Observer this week.
The mansion is the only one on the lake that offers views of the sunrise and sunset each day, because of the home’s northeast position on a peninsula, Corriher previously told the Observer.
Lee also noted its six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and rooftop deck with a covered hot tub. The home has heated floors, an elevator and a chef’s kitchen with “top-of-the-line” appliances, he said, along with an enclosed boathouse with a wet bar on the grounds.
”This home is a true masterpiece, and I am honored to be its new owner,” Lee said.
Lee said he and his family look forward to staying regularly at the home, which he envisions as a potential future business use: “an exclusive, high-end Lake Norman destination for events and corporate functions.”
The Corrihers originally listed the home for $5.5 million.
Lee thanked broker-agent Mike Toste with Southern Carolina Homes and Anthony Faulkner of Faulkner Law Firm in Mooresville for their work through the lengthy sales transaction.
96 tons of steel
In a 2022 interview, Ted Corriher told the Observer that he started building the home in 2016. His parents, Charles and Lillian Corriher, had a much smaller, more modest “lake house” on the same lot in the 1970s.
Corriher said he spent three years envisioning the design of the mansion.
Corriher, who served as general contractor on the home, built the mansion with 96 tons of steel and 240 yards of concrete, and added a million pounds of Miami limestone Rip Rap coral on the shoreline.
“Yes, all hauled from Miami,” he said about the Rip Rap coral. “20 trucks.”
The home also has a 2,400-square-foot dock with palm trees.
Because of its million pounds of window glass, the mansion has 24 air-conditioning systems, Ted Corriher said.
Curious boaters can’t peep in, because the windows are a special glass, tinted instead of glazed, he said. You get a blue mirror effect looking in from the outside. The home also has 156 HunterDouglas custom blinds the couple controlled with their phones.
Ted Corriher, who turns 60 in September, said he and his wife decided to sell the home because he was nearing retirement. He owns a Conover tractor-attachments company called Everything Attachments. And the couple planned to build a similar but larger glass home on their longtime property in Jamaica.
