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Donald Trump, mogul and TV personality, sold his 80,000 square foot mansion in Palm Beach, Florida for a whopping $95 million dollars, in July of 2008. The buyer was one Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian fertilizer businessman who is worth about $12.8 billion dollars. Rybolovlev, who was number 59 on Forbes’s list of the richest people [...]
Posted by bigoak on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:20 am
Filed under All Houses, Strange Mansions · Tagged 24 carat, abe gosman, Bathroom, baths, beach, business holdings, carat gold, dmitri rybolovlev, dollar renovation, donald trump, elena rybolovleva, garden, home, house, kendra todd, list of the richest people in the world, maison de l amitie, mansion, media attention, million dollars, ocean, oceanfront estates, oceanfront mansions, oceanfront paradise, palm beach florida, renovations, square foot, square foot mansion, tv personality, winner of the apprentice, young models
Want the convenience of apartment living but don’t want to give up on things like your garden or sunlight? Then there is a perfect apartment for you in lovely Rotterdamn. Referred to as the Cactus House, the twisted design allows for large balconies which aren’t directly overlapped by upstairs neighbors. The end result is a [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Filed under All Houses, Apartments · Tagged apartment building, apartment living, art, balcony, cactus, convenience, garden, home, house, large balconies, shoe, Star Wars, star wars reference, strange, tall, unique, weird
This majestic piece of real estate near Lexington, Kentucky was originally built to be a single-family home. Construction began in 1969 by one Rex Martin and his wife Caroline Bogaert Martin. They had traveled a bit in Europe and were stunned by the architecture, so they decided to try to recreate it on some prime [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Filed under All Houses, castles · Tagged Acre, architect, architecture, art, Bathroom, bogaert, castle home, castle post, castlepost, dining hall, driveway area, fountain courtyard, garden, grand ballroom, home, home construction, house, lexington castle, lexington kentucky, martin castle, massive renovations, medieval times, million dollars, museum, post castle, price tag, prime acreage, renovations, rex martin, setback, single family, tennis court, tourist attraction, turret, turrets
The Whaley House was built in 1857 on land that formerly held gallows. It is not only the most haunted house in America, it was even haunted before it was built. The first ghost to roam the area where the rooms would be built was that of James “Yankee Jim” Robinson. But we’ll get to [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 12:38 am
Filed under All Houses, Strange Mansions · Tagged amelia, art, bricks, brickyard, corinne, delirium, Design, eloise, gallows, garden, gold rush, haunted house, home, house, jim robinson, New York, noises in the night, personal joys, personal tragedies, related articles, San Diego, San Francisco, strange, strange noises, thomas jr, thomas whaley, United States, United States Commerce Department, whaley family, Whaley House, whaleys, yankee jim
We posted a pic of this before, but here you have a guest post on the Toilet House! What happens when you combine an architect, activism, and a latrine? Don’t be alarmed. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that is a toilet-shaped house and it’s real. Sim Jae-Duck, an architect from Seoul, Korea, is the mastermind [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 8:00 am
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else, Strange Mansions · Tagged activism, architect, art, Bathroom, births, BP, Dana Bashor, Drinking water, fog, garden, general assembly, glimpse, guestrooms, house, House (TV series), latrine, masterpiece, Nature, night visitors, organizing committee, pun, Seoul, seoul korea, sim, Singing, summer olympic games, suwon, tall, toilet, world cup
We don’t usually delve into celebrity news and scoops, but when I saw the specs on Perry Farrell’s Venice, CA home that went up for sale several months ago, I know I just had to write it up here. The home sold on May 25, so unfortunately you can’t count on me for the latest [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 7:30 am
Filed under All Houses, Celebrity Homes, Shaped like something else · Tagged art, cactus garden, california bungalow, Environment, garden, home, house, Janes Addiction, lollapalooza, perry farrell, rock, rock musician, rooftop deck, sliding glass, solar heat, southern california weather, venice ca