The listing for this 25-room townhouse at 7 East 67th Street describes it as “classical and chic,” and for once, that’s not so far off from the truth. The gorgeous 19th-century home is in a landmark district and retains its original 1900 Beaux Arts facade, which was designed by the architecture firm Clinton and Russell (the duo behind the Apthorp and the Hotel Astor, among other lovely buildings). The owner, hedge funder Charles Murphy… (View original article)

SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Demolition work has started at a historic mansion once owned by tobacco heiress and socialite Doris Duke.

AP FILE PHOTO

In this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 file photo, a portion of the sprawling main mansion of the Duke Farms estate that tobacco heiress Doris Duke once called home is seen in Hillsborough Township, N.J.

Crews were at the Hillsborough Township site on Saturday, a day after a state judge rejecte… (View original article)

Where We Live: Pittock Mansion
Pittock Mansion’s current exhibit documents The Oregonian newspapers early days

Ken Boddie and KOIN 6 News Staff
Published: March 13, 2016, 5:59 am
Updated: March 13, 2016, 11:54 am

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — High above downtown, in Portland’s west hills, sits Pittock Mansion, the 23-room house that was once home to one of Portland’s most prominent families.

Henry Pittock was an Englishma… (View original article)

Property magnate Nicholas van Hoogstraten’s own country pile looks in need of some TLC as it stands unfinished – 31 years after work began.

The mansion has been branded the Ghost House of Sussex after locals complained construction had long since ground to a halt on the £40million folly.

Since Hamilton Palace, near Uckfield in East Sussex, was started in 1985 the controversial businessman has passed many of his assets into his children’s names.

He has long held ties t… (View original article)

During Winnipeg’s great boom years leading up to the First World War, the city boasted it had nearly as many millionaires as Toronto.

Men such as George Galt, Chester Stovel and James Ashdown built fine new homes for themselves during this period, but none was larger or more opulent than Alexander Davidson’s 10 Ruskin Row.

ARCHIVES OF MANITOBA, PERSONALITIES COLLECTIONAlexander Davidson, who came to Winnipeg in 1906 and had the mansion built six year… (View original article)

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03:04 EST, 12 March 2016
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Updated:
08:25 EST, 12 March 2016

A $13 million dollar mansion has been demolished in the most dramatic way imaginable: being set ablaze and burned to the ground.

The sprawling 45,000 square-metre property, hemmed in by cliffs and scenic hillsides on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island, was engulfed in flames for a Fire Service training exercise. 

Extraordinary images from the islands shore shows the firefighters working to exti… (View original article)

Fire destroys part of the building of the former Saudi Arabian embassy, March 12, 2016.
James Park / Ottawa Citizen

Arson is suspected in a massive fire on Aylmer Road early Saturday that destroyed a historic mansion once owned by the grandson of lumber baron J.R. Booth.

The fire broke out just after midnight at 478 Aylmer Rd., a sprawling stone building that had most recently been used as the home of the Saudi Arabian ambassador.

Gatineau firefighters spent hou… (View original article)

THE Gala Mansion  was the site of legendary parties, sometimes with a full orchestra playing.

There are buenas familias galore, many of whose faces one sees in the party pages of magazines and newspapers. The Ordoveza family is a good family of achievers, leaders and philanthropists, but rather than see and be seen at socials, the members, particularly those who formed a working committee, poured their time and resources into the publication of “Casa Ordoveza: The Stor… (View original article)