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The $10million Manhattan mansion… with a 30,000 gallon swimming pool in the living room
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Daniel Bates
Last updated at 3:31 PM on 15th June 2011
If the flat screen TV is a bit old and the sofa needs to be replaced, there is always another option to spruce up your living room – a30,000 gallon swimming pool.
A luxurious apartment has gone on sale complete with a 30ft long swimming pool in the space where the lounge …(Read more)
The house sits on Lake Conneware, which is connected to the ocean. MORE PHOTOS
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WANTED: a devotee of French provincial architecture with $9 million to spare, or brides-to-be with notions of a romantic, vintage European wedding.
Since this French-style Victorian mansion was put on the market last year, the most interest it has generated has been from couples wanting not to buy it but hire …(Read more)
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Cuneo Mansion and Gardens Hosts Ribbon Cutting for New Pavilion
A rendering of the new Pavilion at Cuneo. At 5,550 square feet, with 16-foot ceilings, the building can host up to 300 people, and includes a beautiful terrace overlooking the formal gardens.
This weekend, Loyola University Chicago’s Cuneo Mansion and Gardens will unveil its new Pavilion at Cuneo, a beautiful 5,550 square…(Read more)
Charles Lewis
Jun 14, 2011 – 5:20 PM ET
| Last Updated: Jun 14, 2011 6:01 PM ET
The three-storey Victorian mansion on Park Street in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is considered one of the town’s prized possessions, a treasure of unique architecture, craftsmanship and exquisite detail.
The top of one of the towers is a “cozy den which might be used as an observatory, so grand a view of sky, land, and sea does it command,” an area columnist wrot…(Read more)
This reality star diva, Kim Kardashian definitely knows how to pamper herself as she has moved into a luxurious $4.8 million mansion located where else then in Beverly Hills. Apparently, celebrities don’t mind spending big bucks for their comfort and neither does Kim Kardashian. It seems that her reality show, in addition to several endorsements have paid off well as this villa isn’t your average one. Since a diva needs to sleep in style, the Tuscan-style 5 bedroom mansion provides Kim all …(Read more)
South Dakota first lady Linda Daugaard says public tours of the Governor’s Mansion in Pierre will resume on June 22.
The summer tours each Wednesday were to begin June 1. They were suspended so officials could focus on the battle against Missouri River flooding.
The 30-minute public tours will be conducted each Wednesday the rest of June and in July and August.
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— Available soon: nine palaces in lakeside complex frequented by visiting kings and dictators, beautiful molded ceilings and light fixtures, many bidets, Saddam Hussein mural and former prison cell. As is, with Tomahawk missile damage. Contact: U.S. Army.
Thus might read a real estate ad for the Victory Base Complex, one of the many properties the U.S. military is vacating as the Dec. 31 deadline for its withdrawal from Iraq approaches….(Read more)
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The Milestone Hotel Offers Live Like Royalty Package
The world’s most notable newlyweds are soon to unpack their belongings at Kensington Palace, and to mark the newly dubbed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s marital milestone The Milestone Hotel is offering traveling twosomes the opportunity to, as their new package states, Live Like Royalty.
The King’s Speech star Colin Firth is heading to Buckingham Palace just months
after collecting an Oscar for his portrayal of King George VI.
The actor will receive his CBE after being recognised in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours.
It caps a memorable year which saw Firth pick up a string of awards, most
notably the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as the stuttering monarch.
His emergence as Hollywood royalty comes 16 years after he achieved instant
h…(Read more)
J.K. Rowling is so rich from her creation of the Harry Potter books, movies and merchandise that she recently purchased a $1.3 million home next to her $3.3 million mansion just so she could tear it down.
Rowling wanted to put in a garden where the “cheaper” home was residing and after purchasing the property she received permission from the city council to raze the house and put in her dream garden.
With a personal net worth estimated at $867 m…(Read more)