Huge mansions in US...post pictures or web links

Yeah, but look at the crummy neighborhood they live in.

 

Not "far" from Silicon Valley.. can be had for just under 44 Million! Just send me your bank account details

36,000 sq. ft. main house with 5 bedrooms!
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Wow, looks amazing. Looks like an early 1900s house (exterior at least), but probably not close to being that old. Any more details on it?

 

It seems that American's have always had mixed emotions regarding the mansions of the wealthy. To wit:
"Yet even after the secondary functions of the home had been transferred to factories, schools and offices, after the machine age had wrought a profound revolution in the habits and tempo of live, men continue to erect imposing houses as a means of crowning their success in life. Many cities and towns in this country are lined with these grandiloquent and slightly ridiculous structures that today await the crowbar of the wrecker. In our dynamic era they are as obsolete as a dinosaur on a flying-field. They are obsolete today because they were built only to fulfill a vain wish to impress the community, the passerby and the public at large. The uniform curtains and draperies which one glimpsed at every window indicated that these mansions were decorated to impress someone outside looking in."
P.T. Frankl: The Home of yesterday, today and tomorrow
ANNUAL of AMERICAN DESIGN 1931

 

I would love to have a 25 yard lap pool. You can keep the rest.

 

I don't know the particular house, but agree on age.

It's probably 1920-1930 pre-depression vintage - English and French styles were popular with the millionaires of the day and this house has all of the typical characteristics.

 

Agree completely - and the chimney in the lower shot is a direct lift of a Sir Edmund Lutyens chimney from the Daneshill Brickworks. If you're gonna crib, might as crib from a really good source!

 

I'm don't doubt that Lutyens was a popular source in those days...he was at the height of his career and his work had been published all over the place.

Here in Dallas, with new megamansions continuing a 30 year run, any archirect doing trad styles has a least half a dozen books on Lutyens in the office library.

I've a few, now gathering dust on my shelves. I did get a couple out to look at with my wife after we'd watched the first season of "Downton Abbey". The characters were his typical clients, brought to screen life.

 

I did a Google search using that first image and found the house:

http://www.christiesrealestate.com/PropertyDetails/113097/#slideshowButton

Built in 1992! Looks very well done (75 pictures in the link above). I was in Newport, RI last week and saw the mansions on Bellvue Ave...all I could think about was how expensive it would be to run and possibly update those homes given they are 100+ years old. They were very beautiful, though, as was the entire town for that matter.

 

Good find, thx for posting!

I would have lost my shot at $1mil. if asked the age based on the exterior.

Interiors are an instant giveaway on the actual age, a real disconnect. They are for the most part quite ordinary and lacking in the expertise shown on the exterior. I guess they had to run short of funds at some point.

In the mid-'90s, I had the the upper design hand in a similar but smaller scale house and grounds here in Dallas. No expense spared for the most part...all stone exterior from Bath, England, lots of nice interior work but our clients also cut corners on some of the finishes.

I may have a few pics in a folder somewhere. If I can find them, will post.

 

Yes, please post photos if you can! I love those style homes especially the interiors, which that one missed on a few of its rooms for sure.

Here is the location of it...if it was secluded on the top of a hill/mountain or waterfront, it would be a lot easier for them to sell at that price.

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=835+Chiltern+Rd,+hillsborough,+ca&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x808f9e0553f6e253:0x693ccb702a470ff,835+Chiltern+Rd,+Hillsborough,+CA+94010&gl=us&ei=ptbUT5-xHpOk8gSkpYDEAw&oi=geocode_result&ved=0CA4Q8gEwAA

I rather have this at less than 1/2 the cost ($17mm): http://www.luxist.com/2011/01/03/fairholme-estate-of-the-day/

 

Lots of trees around the house. This may add to the impression of it being a very old house.

When you look at historical photographs or paintings of old mansions or castles then often there is not much vegetation around them. 100 years later they are almost overgrown in the middle of a dense wood.

 

I couldn't find any pics of the stone house, must be stored away on disk somewhere.

Great place, and the interiors are up to quality. Relatively uncommon exterior design for 1875. Most of the huge mansions of that era were of classical, victorian, or Queen Anne look. IIRC, English and French inspired styles got going around 1910 and were dominant in the '20s and '30s.

This is one I did about ten years ago. Not nearly so grand but along the same stylistic lines and on a great 2-acre site in Charlottesville, VA.
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I like it!

 

Thanks!

I've some interior shots somewhere...will look.

 

Beautiful home! I'm familiar with that town and the home matches the area...very nice place. Hopefully I will be living there if I can find work in the UVa hospital system in the next year or so.

 

Good job. It looks like it was built pre-war.

 

Bellevue Ave area is Disneyland for gilded age extravagance. A unique street in all the world. Everyone should visit it at least once in their lifetime and tour some of the homes. Not only are the homes and grounds incredible and unlikely to ever be duplicated but the rocky cliff sea setting adds to the experience. Springtime is the best.

 

Thanks!

Believe it or not, I've never been there, worked entirely off pics, site/environment information sent me by the client, and research into the area. Followed locally-approved building codes, of course.

I did a house for the same client in Dallas around '83-84, then one in Charlottesville in '92, the one pictured in '02.

It does sound like a very nice place, good luck with your prospective employment.

I much appreciate your observations!

Apparently, I did my job as requested and had sufficient skill to pull it off.

 

http://detroit.curbed.com/tags/detroit-8th-precint

While it never was a "house" It could easily be one... Another beautiful structure in the malaise of Detroit built in 1900-1901 by Architect Louis Kamper

It is available for $299,000
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What!? 300k!? I paid more for my townhome..

 

That is really a lovely building. Too bad about it...

 

I grew up in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, called Oakwood. All of 10,000+ people. Once was called the real Peyton Place. If you graduated from Oakwood High School, Harvard, Yale, automatic acceptance.

Orville Wright, of the Wright Brothers, both from Dayton, built his home in Oakwood in 1914. The houses surrounding this....home.....are similar.

This is Hawthorne Hill today:
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Stunning!

 

Holy smokes, I just stumbled across this listing: BATON ROUGE Real Estate - Residential,11001 HIGHLAND RD, BATON ROUGE, LA 70810

11001 HIGHLAND RD, BATON ROUGE, LA 70810 - Google Maps

EDIT:

This property is currently on the tax rolls with a market value just under $10M and the annual property tax is $105K! Wow.

I can afford the house just not the taxes. Or is it the other way around?
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