Conan Doyle home is saved: Mansion belonging to Sherlock Holmes author will not be converted into flats

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The mansion designed and built by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been saved from being converted into an eight-house development.

The Grade II-listed property, called Undershaw, in Hindhead, Surrey, was where the author wrote many of his Sherlock Holmes sto… (View original article)

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Foster Township recently sold the James B. Neale mansion in Buck Run, seen in August 2008, to a Virginia man who grew up in the village for $7,500.

by peter e. bortner

Buck Run’s grandest house officially has a new owner, as Foster Township has sold the James B. Neale mansion to a Virginia man who grew up in, and wants to return to, that village.

Joseph J. Roperto, Gainesville,… (View original article)

Nearly a year after her untimely death, Amy Winehouse’s family is putting the late singer’s Northwest London mansion on the market. The family made the tough decision to sell the 2,500 square foot home after concluding that it would be too difficult to inhabit a place that she loved so dearly and passed away in last summer, according to the Associated Press.

“It was not practical to keep it empty while paying the costs of its upkeep,” Chris Goodman, a spokesman for the family said, n… (View original article)

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally-friendly abodes, The North Shore is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes.

Each week, Patch features one ‘Wow House’ that caught our attention. This week, take a peek inside a $2.4 million, 4,300-square-foot English Tudor in Evanston that dates to 1926.

Located in the city’s Lakeshore Historic District, 1140 Lake Shore Boulevard has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and lakefront views in near… (View original article)

First look at the new Munsters’ Mansion for ‘Mockingbird Lane’ at Universal Studios

by Christine on May 29, 2012 · 1 comment

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Thanks to one of our readers, Dennis, we have a first look at the Munsters’ Mansion being built at Universal Studios for the upcoming NBC series Mockingbird Lane.

Executive Producer Bryan Fuller recently dis… (View original article)

12:11pm, Wed 30 May 2012London News in Brief
Campaigners win fight to preserve Conan Doyle mansion

Last updated Wed 30 May 2012
The building has fallen into disrepair. Credit: London Tonight.Campaigners have won their legal battle to block the development of a Surrey mansion where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

The Victorian building near Haslemere – which is known as Undershaw – was purpose built for the author, who lived there from 1897 to 1907 comp… (View original article)

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IT IS not often you can walk away from a $12 million property deal thinking you have snagged yourself a bargain.

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