Tasteful friends, the Crocker Mansion of Bergen County

Bathrooms too modern. Otherwise fetch me my petticoats, let's go.

Beautiful. Love the indoor pool and the intricate woodwork.

The picture top right looks like an oversized musical organ. Pass.

It’s a bit much.

Looks like a high school in an affluent upper middle class post world war one suburb.

I agree. Might as well have been the Betty Crocker mansion.

Wow, almost 27 million - lot of money but worth every cent, its glorious (and staged properly too for once). Some of those rooms are perfection, I do agree with R1 that some of the bathrooms are too modern though.

Far too big to be practical, unless its shared with a number of like minded people

Not crazy about the updates but the original stuff is beautiful. If that’s a pipe organ I am in.

Without looking at anything besides specs: 21 bedrooms/26 baths, unknown but enormous sq footage on 12.5 acres at only $26.9M,

Something has to be wrong with a property with so much acreage and home features that goes so cheap?

It would make a lovely boutique spa hotel.

It's a glorious house that's been for sale for years. Agree that the modern bits are jarring. The real problem for me is why pay $27M to live in a massively oversized house Elizabethan Revival house in New Jersey.

One could buy a proper Elizabethan house in the UK with fantastic architecture and a more useful size, plus an incredible 17thC house in Spain, plus a incredible 17thC house in Italy, and have half of that $27M left to furnish and enjoy them -- without ever having to set foot in the US.

It would be a clear choice for me.

What R11 says. Also who has paid to heat this mansion since the 1970s, when heating started to cost money. It's mind boggling that people have continued to live in this relic. I've never heard of this mansion and I have quite good knowledge of all the gilded age mansions on the east coast.

What r5 said

I like how it says 21 bedrooms and then further down it says single family home.

At any rate, none of the bedrooms are shown nor the kitchen.

Amazing property; perhaps not as a home, but a retreat

For the land

This is Betty's place? The house that cake mix built?

House history

Oh silly me I should have googled this. The mansion was NOT a private residence for decades.

From 1927 to 1984, the mansion was occupied by a Catholic institution, the Immaculate Conception Seminary.

Too much ornamentation-strip that ridicules gingerbread..

A Catholic Seminary for almost 60 years! If the walls could talk.

The price has dropped to $22M. Now I want to know what's wrong with it.

[quote]From 1927 to 1984, the mansion was occupied by a Catholic institution, the Immaculate Conception Seminary.

Well, at least they've had 40 years to remove the nacreous layer of permacum.

Clearly haunted.

Did they bring the interior wood from Europe?

Tear down! Land value only!

Redfin says it's "only" $22M

This place makes me want to sit near the cold fireplace in the Great Room and put together jigsaw puzzles by the dim light of a single lamp.