I want this house so badly, it isn't funny!

[R.G. White]

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/6315-3rd-Ave_Kenosha_WI_53143_M88952-45904

I don't know much about the history, but it really shows the elegance of the Golden Era. Anybody wanna lend me a couple million?

 

[MissChloeCorville]

Wow! Lovely! What a chunk of change though :0! Great Charles Chaplin avatar too!

 

[Tomasso]

Nice! Move that crib twentysomething miles down the shore to Lake Forest (IL) and the price would quadruple , at the least.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Not bad. Here's my dream estate.
http://www.stanhywet.org/dynamic/default.aspx
Built for Frank Seiberling, the CEO of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1912. I've been here a few times when I used to live nearby, and can attest to it's grandeur. I highly recommend a visit if you get to the Akron area in Ohio.

 

[Nick D]

That is a very fine house. My tastes run a bit smaller/older though:
http://www.holderbros.com/project/details/15-Sixteenth-Century-English-Cottage

With a 2-story garage with an upstairs woodworking shop and a stone forge...sigh...

 

[AtomicEraTom]

That's a fine place, don't see too many like that these days, and in Kenosha, too!

 

[R.G. White]

That's a fine place, don't see too many like that these days, and in Kenosha, too!

Tom, you'd be surprised. If you're ever down here go for a drive through the Allendale district; It has some fantastic mansions!

 

[R.G. White]

That is a very fine house. My tastes run a bit smaller/older though:
http://www.holderbros.com/project/details/15-Sixteenth-Century-English-Cottage

With a 2-story garage with an upstairs woodworking shop and a stone forge...sigh...

Oh, I like that! It's a bit more logical than my choice anyway!

 

[Hercule]

Not bad. Here's my dream estate.
http://www.stanhywet.org/dynamic/default.aspx
Built for Frank Seiberling, the CEO of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1912. I've been here a few times when I used to live nearby, and can attest to it's grandeur. I highly recommend a visit if you get to the Akron area in Ohio.

I Love Stanhywet! I'm lucky that I'm onle a 1/2 hour away so I've been there several times in recent years. Think of irt as a "mini Biltmore"!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

That is a very fine house. My tastes run a bit smaller/older though:
http://www.holderbros.com/project/details/15-Sixteenth-Century-English-Cottage

With a 2-story garage with an upstairs woodworking shop and a stone forge...sigh...

I was looking through the rest of that site and those builders do some amazing work!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I Love Stanhywet! I'm lucky that I'm onle a 1/2 hour away so I've been there several times in recent years. Think of irt as a "mini Biltmore"!

I would love to be able to see all of it, the gatehouse, gardener's cottage, basement and tower of the main home, etc.
So cool that the Seiberlings bequeathed the estate to the public, unlike so many Golden Age millionaires that had their houses torn down after their deaths. :eusa_doh:

 

[scottyrocks]

Not very practical, but my dream house:

Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.

 

[Oldsarge]

Falling Water, like so many of Wright's work, looks lovely but is entirely unlivable. The people who had him design it moved out after only one year because of the noise and constant damp. His Prairie Houses are marvelous but so many of the others . . .

I want to live here.

Tichenor House by the Greene Brothers is now surrounded by other mansions but still stands on the cliffs above Long Beach.

 

[Tomasso]

The people who had him design it moved out after only one year because of the noise and constant damp.

Where did you come by this piece of information?

 

[adouglasmhor]

Mum and Dad's house in Glasgow. Built in the 1860s.

Dougy and Phil's house built 1910 (red door).

 

[Gene]

I want to live here:

 

[Tomasso]

I want to live here:

But so do Ben and Sally. Maybe you could work out a time share arrangement.....[huh]

 

[HadleyH]

Mum and Dad's house in Glasgow. Built in the 1860s.

My God!!!!! That is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!! I love it!!!!!:eusa_clap Is that really your parents house?

 

[Oldsarge]

A class in art history back in my upper division days in the late '60's. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Architecture, Art 2XXA & B, Professor Carrot presiding. He was a brilliant lecturer; suave, dapper ladies' man and first rate wit. RIP, Professor Carrot.

 

[Tomasso]

A class in art history ..... Professor Carrot presiding. He was a brilliant lecturer; suave, dapper ladies' man and first rate wit.

Well I'm sure he was all that and more but he was mistaken about the Kaufmanns feelings towards Fallingwater. They used it as a summer home (for which it was designed) for over a decade before Mrs Kaufmann committed suicide on the property, after which it went vacant for several years before being turned over to a foundation.

And I would stop way short of branding FLW's homes entirely unlivable; let's just say they were/are high maintenance properties.