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By Paul Owers June 4, 2012 10:27 AM
Miami Heat forward Mike Miller wants to sell his Hillsboro Shores mansion and says an auction is the best way to do that.
He’s holding an auction June 30 at the six-bedroom oceanfront home in Pompano Beach near Hillsboro Mile. There are no minimum bids, and the home will sell to the highest bidder regardless of price.
Miller, whose Heat is tied 2-2 with the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals, said… (View original article)
4 June 2012
Last updated at 17:31 ET
Beacons have been lit in Lancashire as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations continue.
Thousands have been lit across the UK, with Clitheroe Castle in the Ribble Valley was one of the chosen locations.
The celebrations started when mayor Ian Sayers hoisted an official Jubilee flag from the castle keep.
The castle keep will also be floodlit with red, white and blue and the Clitheroe Pop Choir performed a … (View original article)
by Peter Corbett – Jun. 1, 2012 04:51 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com
A Camelback Mountain castle that has been a financial nightmare for its owners has sold for $1.45 million.
Robert Pazderka bought the 7,900-square-foot Copenhaver Castle on the southwestern flank of the mountain and expects to spend $3 million to $5 million renovating the unusual stone fortress with its secret passages, dungeon and a spa the size of a moat in the living room.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in Bellefonte, Pa., as ex-Penn State defensive coach Jerry Sandusky stands trial for allegedly abusing at least 10 young boys over 15 years.
Published on Friday 1 June 2012 09:00
A SPECIAL tour of Lancaster Castle will coincide with the Diamond Jubilee celebrations from June 2 – 5.
The Duchy of Lancaster, in partnership with the Lancashire County Council Museums Service, said the tour will enable visitors to see inside the female penitentiary for the first time.
Built in 1821 by Joseph Gandy, the panopticon prison tower was designed to allow people to observe … (View original article)
Republican candidate and loyal Amercian Mitt Romney is having held a fundraiser last night at this insane historic chateau on the San Francisco Peninsula, and you better believe it’s owned by Republicans! Also, a couple of teenage girls were abducted there and later tortured (one of them murdered) in 1985.
The house, the Carolands Chateau in Hillsborough, was built by a Francophile rich lady by the name of Harriet Pullman Carolan in 1914 at the highest elevation in the vici… (View original article)
In a tasting of some top Bordeaux wines from the celebrated 2009 vintage in early March this year, I was stunned by the superb quality of the Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, one of the most famous Bordeaux estates from the Pauillac appellation. Its perfumed aromatics, freshness, complexity, subtle depth and elegance made it my first preference, despite stiff competition that included such other renowned fine wines as Léoville Barton and Lynch-Bages.
The o… (View original article)
The Carolands, also known as “The Chateau”, was constructed around 1915 and was considered to be one of the finest examples of the French classical style of architecture in America. The home was built in Hillsborough by Harriet Pullman Caroland, the heiress to the Pullman railroad car fortune and her husband Francis J. Carolan. French architect Ernest Sanson was commissioned to design plans for the 100-room estate on the 554-acre site. A renowned local architect, Willis Polk, was hired to se… (View original article)
Thursday, May 31, 2012, by Adrian Glick Kudler
All the real estate gossip this morning is laser focused on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, who TMZ reports have both pocket listed (i.e., not MLS-listed) their houses–many people are assuming this means they’re moving in together, but neither of these listings is particularly shocking. Kardashian actually moved out of her hideous faux-Tuscan place in Beverly Hills (which she bought in 2010 for $3.4 million) mont… (View original article)
