View sunsets over Long Island’s Noyack Bay for the newly reduced price tag of $10.5M! Click to enlarge; via Curbed Hamptons NORTH HAVEN, N.Y. —A 9,800-square-foot bluffside beaut has switched brokerages and has a brand new price tag: $10.5M, or $1.5M less than its initial ask. [Curbed Hamptons] EVERYWHERE ’80s pop star Belinda Carlisle is stepping into the home decor sphere with a line of textiles inspired by her trips to India. The blankets, cushions, and tabletop pieces are sold exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman. [Casa Sugar via Apartment Therapy ] THE INTERNET —In honor of National Open House Weekend 2012—which is exactly what it sounds like—Realtor.com whipped up a nifty infographic with stats about the properties being shown: $14.3B in total listing price, 78,693 total bathrooms, and 111,656 total bedrooms. Over here for more. [Realtor.com] BURR RIDGE, ILL. —Former White Sox and current Phillies slugger Jim Thome has just paid $4.6M for a seven-bedroom, seven-bath English manor on two acres at the end of a cul-de-sac. The property comes with a seven-car garage. [Curbed Chicago] NYC —The townhouse Marc Chagall once called home failed to sell for $20M, then $17M, so the property has been divided in two: $8.475M for the lower floors and $6.475M for the upper floors. [Curbed NY]
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Vero Beach, Fla. Price: $25,000,000 The Skinny: A relatively recent addition to the seemingly endless shoreline at Vero Beach, Fla., this estate stretches from the sand to the Indian River, on 15 acres divided by the highway. On the ocean side, a 22,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style mansion was built in 2008. The lushly landscaped property then sold, in 2009, for $11.4M, last year it was re-listed for $25M. That’s a sky-high asking price anywhere, and is especially curious considering few improvements to the property were made in the interim and that the river side of the estate holds but a single tennis court and an awkward driveway to nowhere. While there’s plenty of space back there to construct a second house, the estate already has eight bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, including a guest house and caretaker’s cottage, so the sellers will be hard pressed to find a buyer who needs even more space. Adding a bit to the odd nature of this property, Vero Beach has very few similarly-sized and styled estates, making the gate house and formal entry to this property stand out like a sore thumb. · 1920 S Highway A1a [Zillow]
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House of the Day: Sprawling "Ocean-to-River" Estate Aims for $13.6M Profit
Two separate mansions in Naples, Fla., have just sold nearly simultaneously for $42M and $47.3M: odd because the highest-priced homes in Naples tend to ask less than half that and because, well, it’s Florida. If the broker’s enthusiasm in Wall Street Journal’s comments section is to be believed, here now begins a Naples renaissance. [WSJ; previously ]
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Click here to view the full photogallery. Known for decades as a Los Angeles power family, the Chandlers —long-time publishers of the Los Angeles Times —held court at this dazzling Windsor Square estate, known as Los Tiempos. Built in 1913 to designs by a trio of architects that included Julia Morgan, the favored architect of another publishing baron, William Randolph Hearst, Los Tiempos was first occupied by Dr. Peter Janss, a prominent developer, before its purchase by the Chandlers. During their time in the house, they welcomed Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. That happy saga of power and pandering ended with the death of Norman Chandler’s widow, Dorothy Buffum Chandler, in 1997. The house then passed through a series of owners, was the subject of a legal dispute, and then enjoyed a lavish revamp at the hands of the latest owners. Now, after untold millions in renovation costs, Los Tiempos is listed for $11.25M. · Mindbogglingly Pedigreed Chandler House Hits the Market [Curbed LA]
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: St. Paul, Minn. Price: $2,450,000 The Skinny: Built in 1889 by Frank B. Kellogg, the Secretary of State under Calvin Coolidge and 1929 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, this red granite mansion would be where he lived out his years and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. While the house was subjected to some awkwardly ill-advised updating, much of the home’s historic virtue shines through, particularly in the wood-paneled foyer and the intricate moldings in the dining room. The unique wet bar and accompanying starry-sky ceiling treatment might not have been to Kellogg’s liking, and they probably won’t do much to expand the buyer pool, but that hasn’t kept the current owner from listing this personalized palace for $2.45M. · 633 Fairmount Ave [Easy Street Realty]
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House of the Day: The Estate of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Frank B. Kellogg
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman put his Texas mansion on the market about a year ago for $24M, making it the priciest listing in the state. Now you can buy the house for $14M—but only because the Hall of Famer divvied up the property into two parcels; the .9-acre, land-only portion is asking $11.5M. [ previously ; Candy's Dirt via Curbed DC ]
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Price: $1,150,000 The Skinny: Built in 1909 by the esteemed Delano and Aldrich, Gray Crag was once one of Tuxedo Park’s finest estates, a truly grand country home for lawyer and noted collector Forsyth Wickes. Unfortunately, in 1945, some misguided soul modified the original structure almost beyond recognition, knocking off the top two floors, adding a glass-enclosed swimming pool, and transforming a once superb example of Gilded Age architecture into a boring stucco box. That aberration sold at auction in late 2010 for just $2.25M, down from a previous asking price of $9.8M. Now Gray Crag’s carriage house has come up for sale. Though modified from its original use as stables, the former outbuilding retains the original Delano and Aldrich silhouette and is currently listed for $1.15M. Though sited particularly close to the road on 1.3 acres, the sleepy guard-gated community of Tuxedo Park probably doesn’t generate enough traffic to make that much of a bother. Instead, buyers will have to contend with a disjointed floorplan, separated into a three-bedroom in-law apartment—originally the staff quarters—and the renovated stables, housing another four bedrooms. · Wickes Estate Stables [Tuxedo Park Affiliates Realty] · Gray Crag [Beyond the Gilded Age]
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House of the Day: Intact Carriage House to a Modified Delano and Aldrich Design
The all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormed their way into households aplenty thanks to the ingenuity of Molly Erdman, whose Catalog Living blog points to styling curiosities within catalogs. Here now, Erdman does the same for shelter magazine photos. “I’m just saying, Martin, proving me wrong about there only being 9 steps could have been achieved in a less permanent manner.” Photo: Lucas Allen/ Country Living
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Photo: Contemporist · The Watersmark 35 House in Austin, Texas. [Contemporist] · The “thin-shell architectural forms of Felix Candela.” [Arch Paper] · Contemporary mansion with five-acre Japanese garden. [Homes of the Rich] · Tori Spelling rents in Thousand Oaks. [The Real Estalker] · Venice, Calif. home fit for hobbits. [Curbed LA] · A cute converted schoolhouse near Boston, $449K. [Boston.com] · Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sell Malibu beach house. [LA Times] · A house called “Skinspace.” Seriously. [Dezeen]
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Click here to view the full photogallery. Sure, the country’s largest house is the 90,000-square-foot Florida behemoth known as the American “Versailles,” but the construction on that misbegotten enormity was stalled and therefore the mansion hasn’t actually been finished yet. (Buyers can pay $100M for the completed structure or a lesser $65K for the property as-is.) Thus presenting the five other largest homes on the market in the country, here now. First up, the North Jersey Gilded Age mansion known as Blairsden, which presides over 34 acres of forest and formal gardens. Built by New York Yacht Club commodore C. Ledyard Blair in 1903, the manor is notable these days for being #5 on our list of the largest homes currently for sale in the United States. Measuring 50,000 square feet, the massive spread boasts 31 bedrooms and 16.5 baths, enough to have once served as a convent. The price is $4.9M, a bargain by most standards, and a price that some say is influenced by the spooky lore surrounding the property. After the mansion was sold by Blair’s heirs, it served as a convent. Local legend holds that the Mother Superior, either possessed by the devil or entranced by some pagan ritual, murdered her fellow nuns and today patrols the grounds as a ghost. The pragmatist would say that makes for a good deal, after all, who’s scared of a ghost, but the stream of ghost-hunting lookie-loos may put a few buyers off. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Coming in at #4, this unique 50,000-square-foot compound in the Hollywood Hills once served as a top secret film studio for the U.S. military, developing films of nuclear bomb tests and the like. Today, it’s been converted into a private home with extra space for artistic endeavors. The eight-bedroom, 12-bath property is currently listed for $5.75M. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Dominating a hilltop in the Denver suburb of Parker, Colo., #5 on our list is a 50,397-square-foot mansion that’s all about the big numbers: 11 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, a 70-acre lot, a 16-car garage, 10 fireplaces, and a $19.5M price tag. The extravagantly done interiors include an indoor swimming pool with spa and the furnishings seem to be included in the price tag. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Hidden in rural western Massachusetts, #2 is the 1888 French-style stone structure known as the Searles Hopkins Castle. Measuring 54,246 square feet, the seven-story mansion has 40 rooms, including 14 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms, accented by 36 fireplaces. One of those rooms, a Louis XIV drawing room, is decorated with gold leaf and original painted ceiling, while the music room sits beneath a 42-foot domed ceiling. After the original owner’s death in 1902, the home was operated as a girl’s school for a time and by the mid-1980s was operating as the John Dewey Academy, a school for troubled teens. The school put the house, located in Great Barrington, Mass., up for sale in 2007 with a $15M asking price that has since been chopped to $11M. ↑ Despite coming in at #1 on our list of the country’s largest homes for sale, Eschman Meadows might have some of America’s worst listing photos, so sorry about that. Just judging by the numbers—and the few small, grainy photographs—this 55,000-square-foot brick estate earned its title. Nestled on 200 acres in Newport, Ohio, near Columbus, Eschman Meadows was compiled and constructed by the CEO of the Longaberger basket company and includes seven bedrooms, 15.5 bathrooms, eleven fireplaces, and absolutely cavernous entertaining spaces. The remote estate, located not far from Longaberger headquarters, is listed for $15M. · 30 Blair Dr [Zillow] · 8935 Wonderland Ave [Zillow] · 10687 Evans Ridge Road [Zillow] · 389 Main Street [Zillow] · Nashport, OH [Zillow]
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On the Market: The Five Largest Houses Currently On the Market in America