ADDRESSS: 14 Cluny Drive

NEIGHBOURHOOD: Rosedale–Moore Park

AGENT: Dorothy Mason and Sandra Mason-Grossi, Royal LePage Your Community Realty, Brokerage

PRICE: $12,375,000

THE PLACE: This Rosedale mansion is equal parts old-world villa (with its stone, wood and iron accents) and modern spa (with its marble floors, a deep soaker tub in the master bedroom and indoor pool).

BRAGGING RIGHTS: The downstairs pool features… (View original article)

Published: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 10:57 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 11:04 a.m.

When North Carolina seceded from the Union in 1861, nearly half of Wilmington’s residents weren’t consulted on the issue.

Out of a population of 9,552 in the 1860 federal census, 3,777 of those living in Wilmington were slaves. Another 573 were listed as “free persons of color,” but African Americans were not allowed to vote in ant… (View original article)

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Reese Witherspoon has been spotted getting a tour of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s $14m beachfront mansion in Malibu.The 35-year-old Oscar winner and hubby Jim Toth viewed the Californian dream home with her two children – and apparently it was their favourite of the five places that they viewed.

X17online quoted a source as saying that they “seemed extremely interested and visited the house for close to 45 minutes”.

The property consists of two hous… (View original article)

A strange crop used to grow on the grounds of a mansion on Cemetery Street in Frankfort.

JoAnn Maneen, the current owner of the sprawling Victorian residence turned bed-and-breakfast, is quick to tell the story of how a passerby in the late 1800s believed the brown, mushroom-like structures sprouting from the yard to be an unusual agricultural experiment. A Frankfort resident corrected the man: “No, he’s growing balloons; it’s a balloon farm.”

Th… (View original article)

August 31, 2011, 4:06 pm

A Chance to Peek Inside Yaddo

By CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN

For more than a century, Yaddo, the private artists’ colony on 400 acres of woods in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has been a haven for writers, painters and composers. In cozy studios there, Patricia Highsmith wrote “Strangers on a Train,” Aaron Copland created his “Piano Variations,” and authors like Eudora Welty, Truman Capote and Langston Hughes spent produc… (View original article)

The lush surrounds of Gary Ablett’s and Lauren Phillips’ new riverside home.
Source: Herald Sun

Lauren Phillips can’t wait to furnish the home with her boyfriend, Gary Ablett. Picture: Fiona Hamilton
Source: Herald Sun

GARY Ablett and Lauren Phillips have snapped up a slice of paradise on the Gold Coast.

They splashed out $2 million for a ritzy … (View original article)

CHICO — A wider circle is being built inside the entrance of Bidwell Mansion, to lessen the near-collisions that take place most days.
Bikes, pedestrians and cars traveling every which way have long caused chaos at the location, used for U-turns and as a through-way to the Chico State University campus.

State Parks Superintendent Michael Fehling said the intersection becomes especially messy when students come and go from Chico High School at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Vehicles… (View original article)

Despite hiring specialty auctioneers who flew out from Gadsden, AL, and setting a minimum bid at about half the asking price Tuesday afternoon, one of the state’s priciest properties failed to draw a bid at auction inside the 13,650 square-foot Mercer Island mansion.

Managed auction firm J.P King said four unnamed, registered bidders had handed over $100,000 personal checks before they arrived. One had parked his black Lamborghini in front of the six-car garage at the bottom of a ga… (View original article)

Beckenham Place Park

Bring Beckenham mansion back into community use urge campaigners

by Kate Nelson, Reporter
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

4:55 PM

Campaigners want a historic mansion set in 200 acres of parkland to be transferred from council management to a community trust to bring the buildings back into full use.

The Beckenham Place Park Community Trust is proposing that Lewisham Council… (View original article)