|
You are using an insecure version of your web browser. Please update your browser!
Using an outdated browser makes your computer unsafe. For a safer, faster, more enjoyable user experience, please update your browser today or try a newer browser.
|
|
News of castles, mansions, palaces and more… |
Albany is presenting with many of the symptoms of Hamilton fever. A themed tour of a historic home. A themed exhibit at a museum. And now it’s turned serious… there’s a self-guided Alexander Hamilton walking tour.
Hamilton… so much… Eliza… tickets impossible… Miranda… (Don’t worry, it’s only the fever talking.)
Walking tour blurbage from the Albany Heritage Area Visitors Center:
ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757-1804), one of the Founding Fathers of the … (View original article)
Charlie Sheen is enjoying success with real estate right now, as he’s just sold his Beverly Hills mansion for $5.415 million.
He originally purchased it for $4.8 million in 2012 from one of the Detroit Pistons owners, Tom Gores, for his estranged wife Brooke Mueller and their two sons.
Located in Mulholland Estates, the five-bed, six-bath home was built in 1991 and is 6,625 square feet.
The front courtyard features a fountain and lush foliage, set behind private g… (View original article)
Over 1700 Scouts from all over Scotland, the UK and the world will travel to Blair Atholl in Perthshire, to take part in the 35th Blair Atholl International Jamborette – the only Scout camp of its kind in the world.
Sixteen countries, including Ghana, Gibraltar, Spain, Hong Kong, the USA, Austria, Finland, Japan and Iceland, will link up with Scouts from Scotland at the ten day biennial camp on July 18.
Held in the grounds of Blair Castle, this is the biggest Jamborette to da… (View original article)
The five-star Dromoland Castle Hotel is on course for a record year, with revenues set to top €20m.
Newly-filed accounts for Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd — the operating company for the Co Clare hotel and the adjacent Inn at Dromoland — show a four-fold increase in pre-tax profits for 2015 to €1.29m.
Revenues increased 13% to €19.55m.
The company paid a dividend of €250,000 to its shareholders in 2015.
Last year marked Dromoland’s 52nd year in business, ove… (View original article)
That is according to the long-serving hotel manager, Mark Nolan who pointed out that the business also includes the Inn at Dromoland, which it acquired in 2012 for €2.1m.
Mr Nolan was commenting on new accounts showing that pre-tax profits at Dromoland Castle Holdings Ltd increased four fold last year to €1.29m.
This followed revenues at the firm last year increasing by 13pc from €17.3m to €19.55m in the 12 months to the end of December last.
Las… (View original article)
Published:
04:54 EST, 28 June 2016
|
Updated:
20:26 EST, 28 June 2016
Billionaire Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has annoyed locals on the Hawaiian holiday island of Kauai after he began construction a large stone wall around his $100million 750-acre retreat.
Zuckerberg bought the property in 2014 and later added two further parcels of land, including 393 acres at Pila’a Beach on the north shore of the island.
However, the Facebook founder is facing criticism… (View original article)
Image by Glynnis Ritchie via flickr
For many book lovers, there is nothing more exciting than the idea of a home library. What most of the city’s book lovers don’t know is that until recently, there was an affordable way to fulfill the dream of a home library—at least for book lovers who also happened to be handy with tools.
In the early to mid twentieth century, the majority of the city’s libraries had live-in superintendents. Like the superintendents who still live in many … (View original article)
In 1910, an attorney named Albert Barnes Boardman bought close to 10 acres in downtown Southampton, N.Y., and spent $250,000 (approximately $30 million today) to build a 24-room, four-story mansion modeled after the Villa Medici in Rome. There were formal gardens, fountains, sprawling lawns, a tennis court, and a gatehouse.
The original house, modeled after the Villa Medici in Rome. Source: Houses of the Hamptons/Acanthus Press Boardman owned it until 1927, after which the house suff… (View original article)
Published:
15:05 EST, 28 June 2016
|
Updated:
16:37 EST, 28 June 2016
With one last check for $2.5million last week, Bill Gates completed the land puzzle he’s been assembling in the small Florida village of Wellington.
The richest man in the world is now the proud owner of an entire street in the exclusive equestrian enclave.
Ever so quietly since March, the Microsoft founder spent a total $28million to buy the properties of his five neighbors on the horse-cr… (View original article)
realtor.com
Here’s a secret worth shouting about! Pennsylvania’s most expensive property, listed for $25 million, is a relative bargain, according to listing agent Janet Rubino.
The posh Philadelphia-area address has been on the market since 2014, and it’s at the top end of the upscale Mainline neighborhood, Rubino admits.
She’s been marketing it internationally, hoping others will recognize that the Philadelphia area represents a relative steal in terms of major… (View original article)