This strange SLC house once belonged to an eccentric Utah artist. You could buy it.

Just like the Christian School artwork he dedicated his life to creating, Ralphael Plescia’s Glendale home stands out.

The periwinkle-blue house with a matching mailbox turns heads. It also has all the markings that make it clear that it is the late artist’s.

The white cross on top of the house. The sprawling statue of the “Heavenly mother and God’s only begotten son” to the left of the entryway. The more you look, the easier it is to spot the subtle imprints of Plescia’s unique artistic style.

Plescia died in August 2022 and dedicated his life to creating artistic interpretations of scriptures from the Bible. Most of that artwork was housed at the Christian School on State Street, which was demolished earlier this summer.

His house will most likely see the same fate, according to his daughter, Neena Plant-Henninger.

“That’s all dependent on the buyer,” she said. “It’s an old house. There’s so much work that needs to be done.”

The 1,725-square-foot house at 1048 W. California Ave. was listed for sale on July 10 for $311,000. Since then, Plant-Henninger estimates she’s had around 50 inquiries about the property. The property extends back beyond the house itself and includes two shacks, one of which Plescia converted into a feral cat colony.

After three years of cleaning, Plant-Henninger, an artist herself, and her brother hosted an estate sale last weekend where they liquidated household items, like a brass bed and antique dressers. The line was wrapped around the block, she said.

Someone bought a few 8x10 drawings, but most of her father’s artwork has been rehoused with The Utah Arts Alliance. The arts nonprofit also has most of the 2-D and removable sculptures from the Christian School at the Art Castle in Salt Lake City.

Plescia left his mark on the house. He moved around light switches and changed the floor plan to his heart’s content. Now, it’s a bit of a maze, with doors and windows everywhere, making for small but cozy rooms.

The first additions he made to the house were the stone walkway outside and the “red room” where there is red carpet and red painted walls, Plant-Henninger said.

There’s a custom built fireplace and a cover for another that echo his art style from the Christian School. Outside, there are three sculptures of horses, one of which the Arts Castle will collect.

Currently, the house is scattered with leftover stuff from the estate sale — stacks and stacks of books that Vonna Rae, Plescia’s wife who died in March, collected over the years; some of her clothes, bought from local manufacturer Pykettes, remain in a back closet.

For her part, Plant-Henninger has a collection of faded memories from living in the house for 11 years. She remembers running around the front area with her siblings. She said they used to play “musical rooms,” often switching up which room they slept in.

But it won’t be difficult to say goodbye to the property.

“Since I hadn’t lived here for so many years,” she said, “I don’t really have an emotional attachment to it.”

As Plant-Henninger showed a reporter around the house, prospective buyers toured the property with a realtor. One stopped Plant-Henninger and inquired about her father, mentioning the Christian School.

The prospective buyer recognized his art style, particularly from the two fireplaces, even though she never went inside the school on State Street.

From outside, a concrete, hand-crafted inscription Plescia created is visible through a window. “Abode of Vonna Rae and and Ralphael Plescia,” it reads.