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Santa Monica Oasis Auction
Frank Damavandi hired notable California architect, Christopher R. Sorensen, to redesign the home, fusing the cottage into the design to make the rebuild seamless. Nestled into just under half an acre in the middle of Santa Monica, entering through the heavy wood entry gates is an oasis of vegetation, pools, fountains and sounds of moving water. Sensual in every aspect, from its 500-year-old reclaimed teak to its swim-up bar in the courtyard pool, Sam Francis would have loved this artistically inspired home. Now at 12,500 square feet, the combined homes have eight bedrooms, thirteen baths, three steam rooms, glass walls, chef’s kitchen, vaulted ceilings with skylights and trails through the vegetation and water features. The tropical property is only five minutes to the beach.
Two homes, 8 bedrooms, 13 baths, 3 steam rooms, glass walls, 5 minutes to beach in Santa Monica. Was $18,750,000, now going to auction on January 30th.
Baseball Hall of Fame's Tom Glavine
Tom’s home is on 1.95 acres in the exclusive gated community, Country Club of the South - a Hotlanta celebrity hotspot where Usher and Whitney Houston also once lived. At 10,222 square feet with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, the style includes columns, curved staircases and large crystal chandeliers. In addition to the formal rooms, there is also a large recreation area downstairs with a black granite wet bar, a wine cellar, a billiard area, exercise room and a putting green. Also included is a media room, a second kitchen and a library/office. The attractively landscaped grounds include a swimming pool. Rumor has it that the Glavines may be moving just down the road. They paid $620,000 for another home in the Country Club of the South community in 2001 and that lot now sports a new home with a baseball diamond in the backyard.
Alpharetta, Georgia home of new Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Tom Glavine, price currently pitched at $1.995 million.
Historic Mississippi Inn
Today, Cedar Grove is an inn and restaurant where many go for a vacation retreat. Now there is the opportunity for the next entrepreneur to fulfill their dream of being an innkeeper, or for the not quite so energetic, it could be converted back to the original elegant single family home of the past. Now hosting weddings and special events, at 49,780 square feet, there are also 33 guest rooms spread between several buildings. The inn conveys fully furnished and equipped, making it completely turnkey for the new owner.
Historical Cedar Grove property, currently operating as an inn and restaurant in Vicksburg, Mississippi, previously listed at $2.9 million, reduced to $1.495 million.
Texas Y.O. Ranch
Almost two-thirds of the ranch is for sale, which includes 29,000 acres with main lodge, historic log guest cabins, chuckwagon eatery, auction barn with holding pens and arena, a 100-year old school house, and an 1850’s stagecoach stop that was the first Wells Fargo post office from nearby Boerne. In addition there are five residences, equine facilities, staff homes, waterfall pool and spa with cabana, RV camp and an adventure camp. For private airplanes there is a 2,110-foot runway.
Established in 1880 by Texas Ranger Captain Charles A. Schreiner, the Texas legacy Y.O. Ranch, originally priced at $85 million, now reduced to $75 million.
Historic Shangri-La Sold
Libbey Ranch was originally built in 1923 for Edward Libbey of glassware fame, as a stable. In following years the ranch evolved and has also had other illustrious owners such as Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters) and Kathryn Ireland, fabric designer and decorator to the stars. Taking into account that it was designed by Wallace Neff with later additions designed by Austen Pierpont, its history alone is intriguing. Its ambiance also attracted Frank Capra who used it as the setting for Shangri-La in his film, Lost Horizon. While Ireland filled the home with her colorful textiles, Reese came in with her own decorator, Kristen Buckingham, who gave it a neutral palette of earthy textures that accentuated the true architectural beauty of the home and blended it into its natural surroundings. The heavy use of stone in the large fireplaces, huge exposed beams, Spanish tiles and century-old hardware that was forged on site, takes one back to gentler times when life was slower and each day meaningful.
With a total of 5,481 square feet between the main house and three guest cottages, the estate contains nine bedrooms and nine baths. The main house consists of four bedrooms, four baths and includes large spaces for entertaining. The kitchen also has its own stone fireplace for coziness as well as for the serious cook who enjoys having the ability to cook over a Tuscan-styled grill. In addition to the three guest cottages are a carriage house, swimming pool and spa, horse stables and barn, blacksmith’s shop, four-car garage, acres of pasture and organic gardens.
Reese Witherspoon's Ojai ranch that was the setting for Shangri-La in Lost Horizon sold for $4.98 million. Originally listed at $10 million, she realized a 14 percent loss from her 2008 purchase price of $5.8 million
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