We are asked all the time about the house jutting out from the rock overlooking Wildcreek GC. How long has it been there, and how was the foundation constructed?  If you’ve ever played Wildcreek Golf Course, you’ve seen it, and if you ever worked here you’ve been asked about it.

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The wood house sits on a rocky cliff just north of McCarran Boulevard overlooking Wildcreek GC with a view so gorgeous, you’ll think you’re soaking in every inch of the Truckee Meadows at once. 5334 Valley Vista Way, Sparks, NV is 3,813 sq ft and was built in 1976 by Wayne Nolan Capurro. The land, including much of the golf course, was a dairy farm owned by Wayne’s father, John. As a child, Wayne hiked the rock hill and sat atop, looking down on Reno and Sparks. As developers moved closer to the property, the family sold much of the farm and Wayne built the home atop the same rocks he climbed to as a child. “It was a very special home,” said Sheilah Capurro, who lived there for 16 years and was married to Wayne before he died in 1999. The house was never without attention. Thousands of cars drive that stretch of north McCarran daily, seeing the home on the rocks. “That house had more rumors than anything and none of them were true,” she said. “There were never snakes in the walls. It was never unstable or blowing in the wind.”

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David Masterson, a Sparks tax preparer, bought the home in 2000, the year after Wayne Capurro died. “(Wayne) could take care of anything and I just wasn’t able to do that,” Sheilah said.  The home went on the market for $500,000 in 2000, according to a Reno Gazette-Journal report. The reports described the home as a “hilltop dream” and “combination of human technology and Mother Nature at her rugged best.” Masterson has owned it since, but about two years ago he entered a lease-option agreement with Mike Anderson. Anderson said he gets weekly visitors driving up the hill from Wedekind Road to High Rock Way asking if they can look inside the home. Anderson put the house back on the market in 2013 for $1.675 million. The two-acre property literally is on top of rocks with a bridge walkway taking visitors from the driveway to the front door. It was constructed by a San Francisco architect with ceilings made – at all levels – of wooden two-by-fours laid on end. This home last sold for $795,000 in October 2017.

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It is a remarkable 42-year-old house that is rich in history, not only the house itself but the land it sits on.   Sources: Emerson Marcus, RGJ – Published/PT April 18, 2013, Zillow.com