Author Archives: Castles of the Realm
Take a tour of Galveston’s historic home – Beaumont Enterprise
 The mansion is opening for tours for the first time since Hurricane Ike. Read more at HoustonChronicle.com. Photo: Nick De La Torre, Chronicle  The mansion is opening for tours for the first time since… Open Gates mansion was built by noted architect Stanford White for George and Magnolia Willis Sealy. Photo: Nick De … Continue reading
‘Spiky’ N.Y. Mansion Built by Dansk Founders Listed for $5.5 Million (House of the Day) | AOL Real Estate
‘Spiky’ N.Y. Mansion Built by Dansk Founders Listed for $5.5 Million (House of the Day) By Curbed | Posted May 6th 2013 6:00AM By Sarah Firshein When Theodore and Marsha Nierenberg, founders of the Scandinavian tabletop firm Dansk International Designs, needed to build a house atop their scenic, 22-acre slice of land in Armonk, N.Y., … Continue reading
Rod Stewart snapped up Grade II £4.65m listed mansion in the heart of Essex | Mail Online
Another country pile for his collection! Rod Stewart snaps up Grade II £4.65m listed mansion in the heart of Essex By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:46 EST, 5 May 2013 | UPDATED: 03:25 EST, 6 May 2013 Rocker Rod Stewart seems to have caught the nesting egg late – by snapping up a £4.65million mansion … Continue reading
Adler-designed lake mansion inspires decorator in all of us – DailyHerald.com
Designers who can update a 1916 Italianate villa and make its 15,000-square-feet warm and welcoming can surely answer some of your decorating quandaries. David Adler designed the home, chosen as this year’s Lake Forest Showhouse, with arches and columns inside and an enclosed courtyard outdoors where most of us have front yards. Advertisement If you … Continue reading
Opulent Great Gatsby style 7-bedroom red-brick estate with sandy beach, private pond and two guest cottages offered up for sale at $16M | Mail Online
Mansion that remains untouched since Gatsby’s roaring twenties: Long Island tycoon’s $16m home that could be plucked from novel By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:03 EST, 3 May 2013 | UPDATED: 02:56 EST, 4 May 2013 An exquisite mansion nestled in the Long Island enclave of Glen Cove is being offered up for sale for … Continue reading
Petition to have Welsh flag flying at Flint Castle – North Wales Weekly News
Petition to have Welsh flag flying at Flint Castle 2 May 2013 10:39 Hundreds back the plan including local MP and AM A PETITION will be launched by campaigners who want to see the Welsh flag flying above Flint Castle. Hundreds of people have shown support for the plan after the ‘We want the Welsh … Continue reading
Medieval manuscripts written in Oxford castle crypt | The Oxford Student
Medieval manuscripts written in Oxford castle crypt By Ally Leigh Oxford Castle was this week discovered to have played a crucial part in the construction of the medieval myth of King Arthur. It has been confirmed that the ancient St George’s Chapel, the crypt of which is still standing, was where one of the earliest … Continue reading
Castle in flames – or so it seemed to onlookers | This is Kent
FIVE fire engines, including one from Maidstone, were sent to a false alarm at Dover Castle after the Great Tower appeared to be up in flames. Two crews from Dover and one from Whitfield attended the scene following reports of smoke issuing from the top of the keep on Wednesday evening last week. BREACHED KEEP?: … Continue reading
Essex County mulls $1.43M plan to rehabilitate Kip’s Castle in Verona : page all – NorthJersey.com
Essex County is considering a $1.43 million plan to rehabilitate Kip’s Castle. The project would include window restorations, handicapped accessible ramps and repairs to the castle’s roofs and gutters. ADAM ANIK / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Kip’s Castle, in an 11-acre property on Crestmont Road in Verona and Montclair, was purchased by Essex County in 2007 with … Continue reading
Sprawling New Mansion on Georgica Pond for $30M – Insane Asks – Curbed Hamptons
Thursday, May 2, 2013, by Laura Euler Granted: we are not the target market for a $30 million house. But why must these large, expensive homes feature cavernous living rooms with all the warmth of a hotel lobby? We appreciate the parquet de Versailles in the living room, but we don’t want to live in … Continue reading