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As I understood, the most expensive home sold in the State of Vermont was also by LandVest of the "Grosse Pointe" estate in Ferrisburg VT (on Lake Champlain) for $10 million in 1996. That was a uber magnificent 430 acre estate of what could only best be described as baronial from the massive mansion to stables, farms, staff cottages, et al

Reading Farm is a bit of an oddity. It comes up as once having seemingly been run as a quasi spa/private inn but today is the base for pure breed dog sellers operating there and California. An old web page for the estate shows it was a 400 acre estate not too long ago. So you wonder what is becoming of the 'extra' land not in the 200 acre offering.

Christie's says it is "on the market for the first time in almost a century" which is a true rarity.

Maybe my expectations are too high but the manor house's interior doesn't match what I was expecting to see. It is almost a let down when you see the level of detail presented of the exterior facade. Rather inside it is more suggestive of being a very small and somewhat bland farmhouse.

Not everyone's taste - although I appreciate it - is what the greater feel of the home suggests from the outside: as if it was once a stable complex, then morphed into a residence. ]]>Aug 22nd 2007 3:39PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2007/08/22/reading-farm-estate-of-the-day/http://www.luxist.com/2007/08/22/reading-farm-estate-of-the-day/Aug 22nd 2007 11:43PM