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Mystery bidder buys 18th century Grade I listed castle for knockdown price of £700,000 (but the repair bill will top £2m)
Castle Goring was designed to look like the nearby Arundel CastleBut the property has smashed windows and crumbling wallsSomerset family have owned the property since 1845Current incumbent Clement, 56, decided to sell as the problems spiralledHome near Worthing, West Sussex, sold for £200,000 over its asking … (View original article)
Article updated: 5/5/2013 7:55 AM
Public tours of Dunham Castle give glimpses of old glory
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Catherine Forrest of South Elgin photographs the interior of the reception hall at Dunham Castle in Wayne on Saturday.
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Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
The reception hall of Dunham Castle in Wayne, where the wall is covered by fabric instead of wallpaper. The fabric is tattered in some a… (View original article)
Chapultepec Castle (1889-1897)
Some of you were probably enjoying the Cinco de Mayo celebrations over the weekend.
I’m sure lots of margaritas were served.
I saw a woman in my building dressed up as an Aztec with bells on her legs.
You could hear her long before you saw her.
I grew up in Mexico City – grades 2 to 9.
I never saw any Cinco de Mayo celebrations until I moved to the USA years later.
In Mexico it is a regional h… (View original article)
Building of the Preston School of Industry started right away. The bricks for the building were made at San Quentin and Folsom prisons using sandstone that was quarried six miles from Ione. The bricks were then delivered by rail at 6,000 bricks per car. The cornerstone was laid on December 23, 1890 with 2,500 people in attendance.
The plans for the school were ambitious with the original plans showing 77 rooms on five floors. The building would be the most significant example of Roma… (View original article)
Out of a Fairy Tale
Photograph via Zillow
This stone castle in the middle of a forest clearing looks like something out of the pages of a Grimm fairy tale. Located on 20 private acres at 28523 Bacus Rd, Sedro Woolley, WA, the home is currently listed for $1.395 million.
Over the Bridge & Through the Woods
Photograph via Zillow
“What’s so striking to me, you come to this pedestrian gate and there’s this bridge … (View original article)
A DONSIDE laird has claimed his two horses have been deliberately poisoned, his tyres slashed and the body of a deer dumped on the doorstep of his mansion as part of a “cornucopia of bitterness” against controversial plans to develop his Aberdeenshire estate.
• An Aberdeenshire laird has claimed that he has been met with a “catalogue of abuse†over his plans to develop his Aberdeenshire estate
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Ron Bath | Business First
A long hallway leads to the reception area for the 10,000-square-foot Mansion area.
Churchill Downs racetrack unveiled its most exclusive area, The Mansion, on Wednesday afternoon.
The details long had been kept secret, but officials provided media representatives a first glimpse of the 10,000-square-foot space and its ornate flooring, Derby-inspired décor and overall feel of l… (View original article)
There goes the neighborhood! Reese Witherspoon ‘buys her third house in same exclusive Brentwood street as she plans to build mega mansion’
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Chelsea White
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22:19 EST, 7 May 2013
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UPDATED:
22:31 EST, 7 May 2013
Reese Witherspoon sure knows how to get along with her neighbours – do not have any!
On Monday it was revealed Reese had bought her third multi-million dollar house in the gated community of Brentwood Circle, California.
TROUBLED tycoons Chris and Mary Gorman have slashed the price of their Scots
mansion by more than £300,000.
The multi-millionaires quit Scotland for a new life south of the border last
year after Mary was accused in the US of assaulting a cop and possessing
cocaine.
She and her husband hoped to sell their eight-bedroom house in posh Bridge of
Weir, Renfrewshire, for £1.2MILLION, before dropping the price
to offers over £999,9… (View original article)
Editor’s Note: 2013 marks the 200th birthday of Millbury, whose 70-year-old petition to separate from Sutton was finally approved by Beacon Hill in 1813. This is the first of a series on Millbury’s history, with material excerpted from “The Centennial History of Millbury,” from 1915.
On any given Thanksgiving morning, Millbury football fans come together to watch their high school take on their rivals from Grafton High.
But a more fitting foe for the Woolies… (View original article)