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Opulent country mansion for sale
by Simona Ganea, posted in Real Estate, on September 9th, 2011
When you say the words “country mansion” you usually imagine a modest house, maybe a two-storey residence, with a garden and maybe a deck or terrace, a traditional design and a simple décor. However, this is not the case for this particular mansion. Located on Sherbourne Hill, Stratford Upon Avon, CV35, this impressive residence is noth… (View original article)
STATS: A home of about 18,500 square feet, with eight bedrooms, nine full baths and two half-baths, asking $15.9 million, or $859.45 a square foot. The house was originally listed for $19.5 million. Property taxes this year are $116,322.
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120 S. Woodland St.,
Englewood, N.J.
Edberg Marketing
The chateau in Englewood, N.J.
DETAILS: While on their honeymoon in France 24 years ago, t… (View original article)
A 20,000-square-foot waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., is asking $74 million, making it the most expensive listing in the area.
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Palm Beach mansion
Juliet Chung shows us a 20,000-square-foot waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., yours for just $74 million. Plus, Mark Wahlberg is listing Beverly Hills house for nearly $14 million and Peter Sperling, son of the University of Phoe… (View original article)
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Living in Birmingham: The House
Birmingham Business Journal
Date: Friday, September 9, 2011, 5:00am CDT
Elegant is an overused word, but it exactly fits the Fould-Springer Collection that comes up for sale at Christie’s in Paris later this month.
Christie’s Images
Set of four, 12-light, 19th-century candelabras. Estimate: €200,000-€300,000.
The collection adorned the French neoclassical Abbey Palace of Royaumont near Chantilly, a late 18th-century mansion designed by Louis Le Masson for the Abbot of Royaumont, Henri Eléonore Le Cornu… (View original article)
Update (3:57 p.m.): Susan Holland, executive director of the Historic Albany Foundation, says winning bidder was a Ravena-based architectural historian who offered $275,000.
The Historic Albany Foundation alerted its members to a Thursday auction of a prominent — and quite historic — Queen Anne mansion at 1 Englewood Place in Albany (map).
The public auction occurred at 11 a.m. The bank-owned house, which faces Washington Park, had been listed for a reduced price … (View original article)
Coolidge himself has a couple of awkward paintings and a quite affecting lilac-wood sculpture on permanent view at the mansion. He and his friends would have appreciated “Art Encounters Preservation,’’ a sprawling exhibit of site-specific installations inside and outside the house, on property that is now a state park. Curator Allison Newsome has brought together more than 30 artists to make work that responds to the history and environment of the place. This mansion is par… (View original article)
The Archimedes Screw turbines, supplied by Southeast Power Engineering Ltd,
will be ready to operate from November. The company is working in
partnership with the Environment Agency, which is leasing the weir.
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: “I can confirm that the royal
household now has an agreement in place to purchase the energy generated by
the hydro scheme, implemented by SEPEL.
“We have been looking at this for a number of years. It is one of a
… (View original article)
8 September 2011
Last updated at 08:16 ET
A Staffordshire landmark has won an award for its educational workshops for children.
More than 10,000 children a year take part in the history sessions at Tamworth Castle.
They can learn about different periods in history such as the Saxons, Victorians and Tudors.
In giving the Heritage Education Trust Sandford Award, judges noted how the workshops were “explicitly tailored to the national curriculum”… (View original article)
The owner of this mansion on Mercer Island put it up for sale because he wanted to travel with his family.
“It wasn’t moving at all, so he decided after about a year to try to put it up for auction,” Caley Newberry, communications manager for J. P. King Auction Co., said Tuesday. Last week, none of the four registered bidders offered the $15.5 million minimum price.
Mercer Island mansion
None of the four… (View original article)