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Post by Chuckie on Jul 23, 2015 10:14:04 GMT -5
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Post by nana on Jul 23, 2015 10:51:15 GMT -5
Three quick thoughts come to mind... 1: Sheer opulence, but very classy; 2: I wonder why it's for sale...did the son squander the family fortune? A sad tale of decline and despair? No family left to pass it on to? Proof that money cannot buy lasting happiness, I guess, and 3: Boy would I love to go through all those drawers and cupboards in that kitchen!!! Also the attic, assuming there is one.
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Post by Chuckie on Jul 23, 2015 11:46:58 GMT -5
Three quick thoughts come to mind... 1: Sheer opulence, but very classy; 2: I wonder why it's for sale...did the son squander the family fortune? A sad tale of decline and despair? No family left to pass it on to? Proof that money cannot buy lasting happiness, I guess, and 3: Boy would I love to go through all those drawers and cupboards in that kitchen!!! Also the attic, assuming there is one. Sounds to me like the guy is just getting old and wanting to "downsize". Also, when he divorced in the 2002, the upkeep on the place was like $450,000.00 a year--pretty princely sum even if you ARE wealthy! That's just MHO... CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by pooka on Jul 23, 2015 13:38:30 GMT -5
I'm sure there's a story there. A house like that is meant to be lived in by people who socialize & hold party's & functions on a pretty regular biases. They were meant as a stage to show off how wealthy you were. I think today, not near as many of the rich live that way anymore. There still are some. Mostly the "new" moneyed rich. I think the "old" money rich live on a smaller scale, & rent when they need a large space. As Chuckie said, the upkeep alone on a place like that is enormous. Most "old" money save their cash to live well on & to make more money than spend it on a big houses upkeep.
That stove is definitely from when the house was built. It reminds me of the stove I've seen in pics of the White House kitchen of the same period in 1901. I think Teddy Roosevelt was president at the time. There's one older pic out there that show the kitchen under Benjamin Harrison who left office in 1893. It shows a different stove. That tells me between 1893 & 1901 that stove was installed. I've seen another pic from 1933 with the same turn of the century stove. I know Truman put in a new modern kitchen. So they may have still been using it until then.
That stove in the mansion is functional I'm sure if your well verse in it. I'd doubt many chefs would care for it though. There's a program I've caught a few time on PBS with an older German chef. He travels to old estate kitchens with open hearths where the cooking is done over open fires. Many of his pans have long legs to set amongst the coals in the fire. He cook a whole meal with this method. I'm betting anyone who buys that place would probably put in a new state of the art chefs kitchen, but who knows..
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Post by karitx on Jul 24, 2015 9:31:41 GMT -5
That stove in the mansion is functional I'm sure if your well verse in it. I'd doubt many chefs would care for it though. There's a program I've caught a few time on PBS with an older German chef. He travels to old estate kitchens with open hearths where the cooking is done over open fires. Many of his pans have long legs to set amongst the coals in the fire. He cook a whole meal with this method. I'm betting anyone who buys that place would probably put in a new state of the art chefs kitchen, but who knows.. That's Walter Staib on A Taste of History. It's a great show and makes me want to build a fire pit so I can try cooking the way he does (but it also makes me grateful that I don't *have* to cook the way he does!). As for the house in this thread... wowza! And quite a bargain at $39,900,000. Although I would have guessed that 47 acres in San Francisco might sell for that without a house.
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