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News of castles, mansions, palaces and more… |
Posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:32 pm
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Updated: 11:24 am, Sun Feb 26, 2012.
A couple’s two-year effort to transform a Chandler mansion into a lavish events center has failed in the face of neighborhood opposition.
Chandler’s City Council rejected plans for Chateau de Vie, a Tudor-style mansion on a property that dwarfs even the pricey homes around it. Owners Nick and Shelly Goodman had proposed a bed-and-breakfast and a bistro on a 10…. (View original article)
25 February 2012
Last updated at 04:31 ET
A community appeal is aiming to raise funds toward the £5m needed to restore a Victorian mansion in the suburbs of Cardiff.
The Insole Court Trust said it hoped to generate at least £10,000 through the appeal, which is launched on Saturday.
Campaigners want to demonstrate the enthusiasm of the local community for preserving and improving Insole Court, which was built in 1856.
They are als… (View original article)
BRISTOL City Council is looking for an expert to come up with ideas for the future of Ashton Court Mansion House.
Last autumn the Evening Post reported that £300,000 was to be used to investigate the treasures within the 16th-century building, which has fallen into disrepair.
A £155,000 grant from English Heritage was matched by funding from Bristol City Council to carry out a study on what the future could hold for the historic house.
And now the coun… (View original article)
Nicholas K. Geranios/AP
The exterior of 34-room Copper King Mansion is seen Dec. 24 in
Butte, Mont. The century-old home is now a bed-and-breakfast.
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS The Associated Press
Associated Press
Sunday, February 26, 2012
A scandal over the fortune of reclusive mining heiress Huguette Clark has renewed interest in the life of her father, copper magnate Wil… (View original article)
Eat your heart out, Gatsby! A glimpse inside Tory Burch’s Jazz Age Hamptons mansion (no wonder her latest collection was Twenties-themed)
By
Daisy Dumas
Last updated at 9:54 PM on 22nd February 2012
If any were in doubt as to the success of the Tory Burch label, look no further than to the business woman’s sprawling new Hamptons mansion.
The Jazz Age Southampton estate features in this month’s Vogue, where its palatial rooms, impec… (View original article)
A luxury Queenstown Hill pad has sold for the highest price of any resort residential property in the past four years.
A six-bedroom, eight-bathroom house on Queenstown Hill has sold for $5.25 million, according to a January 2012 sales report by the local branch of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.
New Zealand Sotheby’s International last year listed the house at $6.25m.The 950sq m house, in The Peak gated estate, was built and designed in the mid-2000s by … (View original article)
When it comes to real estate, there are oodles of incredible luxury estates across America. And then, every once in a blue moon, something comes along that is in a category all its own. Case-in-point –
The Bradbury Estate, a $78,800,000 mega-mansion that just hit the market in the semi-secret millionaire enclave of
Bradbury, CA.
While it’s not as well-known as
Beverly Hills,
Bel Air,
Brentwood and other Southern California luxury h… (View original article)
Impressive 19th century chateau in Central Park now on the market
by Simona Ganea, posted in Real Estate, on January 27th, 2012
Contrary to the common belief, chateaux are not found only in France and are actually not that rare. They can also be seen in places such as Manhattan. This impressive chateau is located in Central Park and it has become an official landmark in Manhattan. Of course, it’s easy to see why.
The building is a 19th… (View original article)
Anyone who spends any length of time in Warsaw cannot remain indifferent to the Palace of Culture and Science. Grotesquely outsized (231 metres in height, 212 metres in width at the base) and unambiguously phallic, the tower (surrounded by a vast and windswept ‘Parade Square’) is impaled into the belly of Poland’s capital. A ‘gift’ from Comrade Stalin to the Polish nation, the Palace was hoisted between 1952 and 1955 onto a sixty-acre plot then still strewn with… (View original article)
A palatial mansion on a more than 500-acre estate in Penn Valley was home to its owner, his wife and their two sons who lived a life of wealth and privilege. The mansion was also home to another group of people: more than 50 employees who worked in the mansion as live-in servants as well as the dozens, including live-in veterinarians, who worked the dairy farm and tended to a prize herd of Ayrshire cattle imported from Scotland.For years Percival Roberts and his family led a charmed life i… (View original article)