There are a few threads about this topic elsewhere on here. Man, I went through the same dillema myself not long ago, seems all the really cool/architecturally significant mid-century moderns (i.e. those by O'Neil Ford, Milton Ryan, and uh, well, that's about it actually) are in Terrell Hills for the most part, and are WAY expensive, and NOT because they're MCM, just the fact that they're on super-valuable property (the majority are sadly being marketed as lots/teardowns). Northwood and Oak Park have a bunch as well, but yeah, like you say, they're pricey too (although Northwood Terrace ain't too shabby, and it's a bit less). Oak Hills and Oak Hills Terrace have a nice selection, and while not cheap, they're less than Terrell Hills. Castle Hills also has a bunch of cool MCM's, which I think are reasonably priced (compared to Terrell Hills that is). Another place that's really overlooked is the Forest Oaks area, it's outside 410 on Nacogdoches, I can't recall the cross street, but go past Mama's Cafe, past the Pizza Hut, and turn to the right, there's a rather large area with a few snazzy MCM's scattered around, and the area is really low-cost compared to inside 410 on Nacogdoches.
Hmm, what else? There's also an O'Neil Ford in Hollywood Park and few semi-MCM lookin' places scattered about over there (kinda mid-range pricey, but hell, what ain't pricey these days in SA?), also there are 3 Ford's and 1 Ryan in Bel Meade, which is where I recently bought a pretty cool MCMish 50's ranch, and yeah, I paid a hefty price IMO, but it's practically Terrell Hills in my eyes,
just outside the Alamo Heights school district (AHISD), and way less $$$ for this very reason, like about $250,000 less than my neighbor across Burr Road, who's literally 20 feet away, and who has a smaller, junked-out house listed at 585,000! My cousin also has a way cool late 50's MCM on Burr Road which was recently apparaised at 700,000, and it's only 2000 sq ft! INSANE. She also sold her restored O'Neil Ford in Northwood to buy it, which is also quite INSANE in my eyes.
There are also plenty of smaller tract-ish MCM's all over SA. I've noticed many in East Terrell Hills, and several other areas that I don't know the name of, but unfortunately after you've seen the Terrell Hills moderns, these are just downright depressing. I myself grew up in a horrid 50's MCM-ish tract subdivision and wouldn't recommend it (Dellview), but that's probably just me trying to escape my lowbrow roots
Anyway, I digress, as far as current modern-types (and I'm pretty out-of-touch with contemporary modern, being that I'm an MCM-obsessed nutcase) all I can think of is Lake-Flato, and they're PRICEY as hell. And I kinda think their stuff is too "Dwell"-ish in my mind, which ain't really my cup o' tea (at least compared to MCM).
I guess it comes down to how much you want to spend really. BTW, someone on this board not long had or has a very reasonably priced (185,000 I believe?) Milton Ryan in far Terrell Hills for sale, at the very end of Morningside at Harry Wurzbach, this house is discussed in another forum - and really, for my buck, Milton was THE father of San Antonio Modernism, NO one else can touch his cutting edge mid-century work (not even O'Neil Ford in my mind, who was quite the society schmooze and got the huge glitzy commisions versus low-key Ryan, who pretty much just built smaller spec homes.).
Man, I would LOVE to have the dough to buy this Terrell Hills Milton Ryan, but, good lord, that price-tag is UNREAL (albeit, it's all original, but it's still a big fixer-upper in that the also-original-in-not-a-good-way roof, foundation, and electrical surely need some majorly expensive updating):
http://realestate.mysanantonio.com/S...d=10467-653190
BTW, prettyhatemachine, you still looking for your dream MCM?
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