Mansions

Tour the “True Blood” Mansion LXTV Come inside La Villa Contenta, the home featured on HBO’s “True Blood” as Queen Sophie’s mansion. This stunning $75 million property has amazing ocean views and a Romanesque indoor pool pavilion that is decorated with nearly one million reclaimed sea shells, creating the ultimate underwater … (View original article)

After a year, Gramercy Park mansion returns to market with $2M price increase July 07, 2011 07:00PM By Adam Fusfeld [Updated: July 8, 1:15 p.m.] A six-story story mansion overlooking Gramercy Park asking $23.9 million has returned to the market about a year after it was last listed, but not before the top three floors … Continue reading »

A wealthy, fast-driving, jazz-loving British-born baroness from Weehawken was highlighted in The Wall Street Journal for her role and acceptance in the jazz community. Pannonica de Koenigswarter, of the incredibly wealthy Rothschild family, was close with jazz greats like Theolonius Monk, WSJ reports. “The baroness is generally referred to as a ‘patron of the arts,’ … Continue reading »

From the time it was donated in 1919 until it was sold off for the housing development that today includes the streets of Pine Grove Road, Kingsbury Drive, Bartlett Avenue, Arnold Drive and Laurel Drive, Medfield was home to a 50-acre Bird Reservation and branch of the Animal Rescue League. In 1890, esteemed Boston physician … Continue reading »

SANDS POINT, N.Y. (CBS 2) — What qualifies as “Living Large” on Long Island? How about a multi-million dollar home with 13 rooms plus an indoor putting green and its own private dock and beach. CBS 2′s Emily Smith got an all-access tour of a 1930′s Sands Point Colonial mansion that hit the market at … Continue reading »

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL — A retired businessman whose plans to travel the world with his wife were delayed because their $5.5-million mansion wouldn’t sell has decided to gamble on an absolute auction, where there are no minimum bids required. Theoretically, it means that the five-acre estate once priced at $5.5-million in the Multiple Listing … Continue reading »

Maria Shriver is buying a $10 million mansion in Los Angeles in the aftermath of her break-up with former husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, the New York Post reports. Shriver’s new home is located in the Brentwood neighborhood, not far from the home she and Schwarzenegger shared during their 25-year marriage, sources told TMZ Thursday. The deal … Continue reading »

Looking for good news and workable solutions to Newark’s problems? I found both this week at what has been — for decades — a landmark to the city’s inability to get things done. The Krueger-Scott Mansion on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is a city-owned wreck, adorned with more than $6 million in custom-made … Continue reading »

Ron McCarty first came to Sarasota in the early 1970s to visit three favorite relatives who had winter homes at Point of Rocks on Siesta Key. “My uncle was a jazz pianist and recorded with Billy Holiday, Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon and many other orchestras,” he remembers. “And three aunts were … Continue reading »

Though the island city is not my favourite European destination, Venice offers at least two excellent reasons to come back again and again. One (in even years) is the Biennale of architecture, a relatively recent spectacle. The other reason (in odd years) is the older, much larger Biennale of art. I usually spend the hectic … Continue reading »