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News of castles, mansions, palaces and more… |
Saturday, 23 July 2011, 07:45 GMT
Visiting Saladin’s hometown
The Kurdish Globe The famed Arab leader had roots in Kurdistan
The minute you leave the Pirmam town in Erbil city, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on the left side of the main street, there is a narrow side street that goes through Armawa and Zrgos villages.
Driving 10 minutes from Zrgos, you will see castle ruins on a top of a mountain on the left side of the street, and on the … (View original article)
If a gateway to Hell did exist where would it be. Many people including ghost hunters and paranormal investigators say that Houska Castle is the place where the gateway to Hell exists. It is surrounded by sandstone mountains and their is no source of water except a bottomless well that is also supposed to be a gateway to the bottomless pits of hell. It was turned from a Gothic castle into a Renaissance Chateau in the 16th century. The Nazis used the castle as their headquarters during the se… (View original article)
Fate had put it up to me this time. I had been dreaming about buying the Chateau de Saux in the south-west of France for years. And now it was up for sale. Viewing was by appointment only, but I didn’t need to view it. I had been gazing lovingly at it for a decade.
It was a stone’s throw from where we went every summer. Sure, didn’t we get married down here? Didn’t I “live” down here for six months? (Well, OK, three.) Haven’t we been coming here for years? Saux? Why, I’m practically… (View original article)
Eagle Rock’s largest estate is on the market again for $4.45 million, less than a year after being listed for $5.99 million.
“The Chateau,” as it is called, is set on almost three acres of land. The grounds have three guesthouses, a greenhouse, a croquet court, a football/soccer field, a fully operational restaurant, a picnic park, and an outdoor park. These unusually lavish features come in addition to the extra-large swimming pool, acre of garden paths, a … (View original article)
Wednesday, July 20, 2011, by Rob Bear
In Sands Point, N.Y., one of the many “inspirations” for The Great Gatsby, the vaunted architecture firm of McKim, Mead, and White designed this imposing French Norman masterpiece in 1927. Over the years, the place had descended into a measure of disrepair, with wood-framed screens obstructing the view from the colonnade. Now, the palace has been on the market for too long to be messing around with staging. It’s been touc… (View original article)
Monday, April 18, 2011, by Rob Bear
On Saturday, a Long Island developer made good on his promise to demolish Land’s End, the Gold Coast estate said to have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. CBS News was there to catch the gruesome act on camera and interviewed owner and developer Bert Brodsky, who waxed poetic about the house and its history just minutes before a metal claw tore through the fine woodwork. The grand columned mansion had certain… (View original article)
SELLER: Citibank (formerly owned by Nic Cage)
Place: Los Angeles, CA
Value: $ 2,782,500
SIZE: 6,312 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms
Your Mama understands really nicely that several of the young children can not bear another spilled believed or diatribe about the seemingly ceaseless actual estate woes of financially embattled Oscar winner Nic Cage. But Your Mama, youngsters, just can not appear to steer clear of the head-shaking… (View original article)
If you long to gaze daily on the view enjoyed by visitors to Mount Vernon, you may want to consider owning the spectacular home at 7808 Southdown Road just south of Alexandria. This classic Colonial-style mansion, built in 2006 by Bart Boucher, rests on two-thirds of an acre overlooking the Potomac River.
Though Old Town Alexandria is just minutes away, the property feels like a luxurious country retreat, and your most frequent visitors will be hummingbirds, woodpeckers, rabbits, fox… (View original article)
Group Looks To Sell Mansion To Aid Local CharityPortion Of Profits From Sale Of La Jolla Mansion Will Help Passion 4 K.I.D.S., Company SaysPOSTED: 8:21 pm PDT July 21, 2011UPDATED: 1:22 pm PDT July 22, 2011SAN DIEGO — A local charity looking to find a new home for toddler Izaiah Wallis and his family could get a huge boost from real estate company’s unique fundraising effort.Izaiah, 2, was critically injured by a teenage drunk driver and now requires constant care.A plan to sell a nearly $1… (View original article)
The Kennedy home in Kalorama.
(Larry Morris/ Getty Images)
We’re sorry. You waited too long to make an offer, and Ted Kennedy’s Kalorama mansion is gone — sold, for $6.5
million, to the Republic of Gabon.
The senator’s widow, Vicki Kennedy, quietly shopped the stately columned house for several months before officially putting it on the market last July. Asking price at the time: Just under $8
million.
Highlights: Six bedr… (View original article)