Well, tasteful friends, here is something you surely don't see every day. A 1492 stone and timber English Tudor that was dismantled piece by piece in 1923, and eventually wound up reconstructed by the Wanamaker department store outside of Philadelphia. In 1945 it was dismantled once again and brought to a 300-acre parcel of land in the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs. Whether you like it or not, imagine the painstaking craftsmanship that went into piecing this all back together! It was laid out like an English feudal village, with a covered bridge, guest houses, sheep barns and a gatehouse amongst other outbuildings. The house is now on 13.5 acres, and it's hard to tell what remains, but what a fascinating place. Cole Porter, Joan Crawford, and Gloria Swanson were all guests at one point. The estate was subdivided in 1957 and is now for sale again. What say you, DL is this a place you could call home?
Tasteful Friends: Reconstructed English Tudor Edition
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 13, 2019 12:36 AM |
Not enough pictures at the listing link, but at first sight the place looks pleasant and interesting.
But I can only imagine how drafty and impossible to heat it must be in Ohio winters, with all those single-paned leaded windows...
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 11, 2019 7:58 PM |
I'd like to host a dinner party in that dining room. Possibly in Elizabethan costume.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 11, 2019 9:46 PM |
could be cozy. that area of Cleveland gets BIG lake effect snows
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 11, 2019 11:25 PM |
you lost me at Ohio
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 11, 2019 11:43 PM |
And you can buy it for the price of nice 1 bedroom or OK 2 bedroom condo in Manhattan because: Cleveland
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 11, 2019 11:56 PM |
Love it. Just like home. I’m in the UK
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 12, 2019 12:04 AM |
Love it. Didn't expect to but love it.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 12, 2019 12:22 AM |
There’s already been a thread on this OP. Would it have killed you to have done a search first before you posted this? I mean really? What’s wrong with having a little consideration for others and doing a search first? Would it really have been that hard? Would it?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 12, 2019 12:23 AM |
I like the Ye Olde Poole.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 12, 2019 12:58 AM |
Ye Olde Poole needs some rethinking. Gorgeous woodwork
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 12, 2019 3:06 AM |
R2 Imagine! You and your closest eldergay frenemies all dressed up as Queen Elizabeth I. Not an Essex to be found.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 12, 2019 3:38 AM |
It would be interesting to see the original building before it was redesigned.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 12, 2019 3:48 AM |
Nice. Like the history. Though definitely modernized and am curious how much is original. Clearly some woodwork and one low ceilings room. But that triple height room was either re assembled differently or just used wood to create a new room.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 12, 2019 4:11 AM |
Is the a Ye Olde Gifte Shoppe in it?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 12, 2019 5:34 AM |
It's too dark.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 12, 2019 12:08 PM |
R15... usually I feel the same thing about that style and this is only one I've seen that I like... the ceilings, even where comparatively low, still feel high enough for me that the place is cozy rather than dim and cramped.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 12, 2019 1:18 PM |
Creepy as fuck.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 13, 2019 12:36 AM |