Searles Castle Up For Sale

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6-18-2007 @ 9:41AM

Spectacular Bid said...

re: comments by Tim Butterworth

If Naumkeag, the grand Stanford White-designed house which I visit at least twice a year, was ever to be sold out of the Trustees of Reservations you'd see me shacked to the front door to prevent it. Never will it be sold back to private use. The same would go for Edith Wharton's home, et al.

As for privately held homes, you could hit in the 'teens' and maybe break $20M if ever High Lawn was placed on the market. Likewise for Blantyre although in both cased the price likely would reflect an interest to make (or retain in the latter example) them as commerical resorts.

I just don't see private homes - yet - fetching north of $10M in the Berkshires no matter how much culture, seasonal affluence, and relative easy to get to Boston or NYC. Spring Lawn didn't, the former DeSisto School mansion didn't, nor did the mansion of the late water engineer Milos Krofta now the "Lenox Athenaeum". All lovely estates needing restoration [as Searles would too] but none over $5M.

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