Comments by "Miles High" (@mileshigh1321) on "This House" channel.

  1. Ken, this was a great one as it was about a Hollywood stars home with lots of history! But what made it even better was your inclusion of Marion's bio and that letter to her friend, saying William gave her the feeling she was worth something to him ! I never heard that before, and it puts to bed the idea she was just a gold digger! Please do more like this!
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  2. What a beautiful house and a great success story! So glad the house was preserved and serves a purpose that Sarah would have wanted!
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  3. Its great that a family member lived in the place long enough so it was preserved instead of being sold to developers! I bet it was more stately and had appropriate furniture when it was first built! I would like to see it now and how much has been restored!
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  4. He moved to Canada and lived out his life here, as he still retained the KFC restaurants too. When Kentucky Fried Chicken changed to KFC, the quality and food items it was know for went out the window in my opinion. They closed one here, and most people I know don't eat it as its basically just crap now...used to be local chicken...now its all factory farm, barely developed chicken....ughhh. His house in Ontario, was a nice little comfortable bungalow!
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  5. The detail and woodwork in that house was amazing! The one fireplace mantle with the statues...I hope that was saved! The amount of work put into these places, only to have it destroyed a short time later is tragic!
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  6. A lot of these big money family's also had lavish private railroad cars they used to get to summer homes etc. It would be interesting to see a video on those too!
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  7. I think the house interior design was ahead of its time! Most of the homes were dark inside, unlike this one! Also the tufted ceilings are beautiful! Ken I wish this house was still standing so you could give a tour of it!
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  8. Best part was that it was saved! So many great rooms and ornamentation! Of course that 3rd floor ball room is stunning!
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  9. This was a good one showing all the houses and many you have made videos of! I have been to the Henry Frick house in NYC in the 80's on a school art trip! It was amazing and I still have some post cards from it! So much great art work and the rooms brought from France and reconstructed was very cool! I think there was a Louis IV room with all the furnishings too! The William Clark house would still be nice to see now !
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  10. Too much money spent too quickly on un-needed extravagance! Her choice to save her diamonds cost her own life! The house was beautiful inside and out! Amazing craftsmanship!
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  11. I thought Lynwood Hall would be on the list. But its a bit smaller at around 70k Sq feet! The amount of craftsmanship lost when the big places where taken down is tragic!
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  12. It's nice to see photos with the actual people who lived there! Gives the place more life, if you know what I mean!
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  13. Both places are magnificent! Not only the location and scenery but the interiors of the first house too! Glad to see the Bavarian Village is still remaining and in use!
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  14. The outside is beautiful! Interior has some nice rooms, but with the side rooms being pie shaped and crammed it seems like he tried to put a square house into an octagon !
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  15. I think the winter garden was the nicest room! So glad it was saved!
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  16. An amazing and beautiful house, built on blood money in many ways! When I visited The Frick in NYC, I probably saw some of the art work from this house!
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  17. Their legacy lives on because of photos and drawings and great informative videos like yours Ken!
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  18. Beautiful and the whole place should still be standing! Too bad he didn't get his will in order!
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  19. I have seen some recent urban explorer tours of Lynnewood Hall. A lot has been stripped but there is also some really beautiful rooms and details still in place! The cost of upkeep and things like having to replace the roof can be a deal breaker. It would be great to see it turned into something that would keep it intact!
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  20. The view of the front door over the reflecting pond is beautiful! I like the way the house is built on top with the gardens down the hill! Nice to hear its still standing and being restored !
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  21. What is not to like about this house, inside and out! Spectacular and we can see how places like this where emulated in the US!
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  22. Frederick Jr.'s house was beautiful inside and out! Glad both places still stand!
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  23. The gardens were magnificent! I loved the overall Japanese decorations! The one room only had a few "Trinkets" like the 3 foot tall Japanese statue up on the mantle haha! Too bad it burned, but at least the car collection and grounds are still there!
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  24. Ken i think its 'Mon-dale' and not 'Mondal' in your pronunciation, but I could be wrong as I live in Canada lol
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  25. The house is more like a museum in some ways with its big entrance gallery! Although some of the rooms are very nice. So glad its been preserved! I would love to tour it or see photos of what it looks like now inside! Thanks Ken
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  26. Ken, in Toronto is "The Keg Mansion" Its a steak house that used to belong to the Massey family from Massey Ferguson the farm equipment maker. Its in almost original condition also with a Morish room! Great history and worth covering!
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  27. Singer Castle is so beautiful! The exterior and location!
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  28. I like the lines and look of the place! Like to see how the interior looks today. Hopefully still as nice as when it was built!
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  29. So glad it still stands! I am glad they have photos of how it looked! I have always like the Louis XIV furniture and how ornate and stylish it is! These huge ornate palaces where great Ideas at the time! But little thought was given into future costs and how descendants would pay for them !
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  30. What an incredible and beautiful house! The drawing room was magnificent! And also the grand entrance! I love all the big gas light fixtures ! I was waiting to hear, all the art work and that amazing statue had been lost! Thankfully it wasn't, but alas, this and so many other grand homes perished!
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  31. Probably one of the nicest Manhattan Mansions I have seen yet! The interior details where stunning! I am so glad the 500 yr old Courtyard was saved! Hopefully a lot of the other details where also!
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  32. Great old house with an interesting history! The photos of the interior seem to be when the house was in need of repair and was beyond its heyday ,but was still beautiful ! Glad it has been preserved!
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  33. Everything about this place was perfection! Too bad it was ripped down.
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  34. What a beautiful house ! I wonder how much of the furniture was Frank's! I hope its protected and on the historical list! There will never be another voice like Old Blue Eyes!
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  35. Beautiful! I see why they were more comfortable living here than in any of their marble palaces!
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  36. What a beautiful house and grounds! I have seen it in many movies and tv shows. Especially that long cascading fountain ! I read that he had a room just for that giant christmas tree that was permanently decorated!
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  37. The whole house was beautiful with its terra cotta and openings to terraces! The whole place had a light and airy look to it! Sounds like they couldn't wait to tear it down!
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  38. The new house was still like a castle inside. I wonder what the first house looked like!
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  39. I would love to go on the self guided tour! On the TV show, they didn't have to change much when filming in some of the rooms! Glad the beautiful place is still around to enjoy!
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  40. The exterior and gardens seemed nicer than the actual house. Based on the photos, it was more like a museum than a comfortable house! Too bad it's gone and the once great gardens are just a memory!
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  41. Beautiful well lit rooms! Too bad no library pictures, I am sure it would be as nice as the other rooms! Thankfully it survives!
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  42. The music room was pretty spectacular! Hope the new owners restore it !
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  43. Ken, I would have to go with the incredible looking Hopkins Mansion! Not only because of the exterior but also the beautiful interior! So much was lost in that 1906 earthquake!
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  44. My like of the house was tainted, when you mentioned the hypocrisy of its first owners!
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  45. Nice to see a big grand house that actually still stands! Lovely place! Thanks for the history!
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  46. Some really beautiful rooms and spaces, the craftmanship was unreal, especially that fountain carved out of one piece of marble! I wonder if that survives somewhere! Interesting history too. I wonder to what extremes they went through, to clear their name!
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  47. Beautiful architecture! The interior has some cool different elements! I would love to get a tour of it now!
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  48. I can see why it is one of your favourite houses! The front hall was beautiful! And the rest of the house was just so ornate and incredible too! I just can't believe they let a dunderhead developer with more money than brains, go and destroy the place without taking out the incredible interior first! A real travesty!
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  49. Great idea! This place was monumental until it was "restored" It looked amazing from the outside!
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  50. Lots of great History and homes in Toronto! Thanks for showing this one!
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  51. Beautiful! I want one! 😄
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  52. Beautiful house that really look more like a comfortable home than some of the bigger more ornate houses did! I agree it needs to be restored, and opened to the public. Military should put some money into, in the name of history and preservation!
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  53. This is one house that I like every room and how its comfortable without being over stated! Even the outside does remind you in some ways of the river boats like you said! So glad its preserved! I waited with baited breath because I feared it might have been lost! So glad it survives!
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  54. What a lovely house and property! I could see myself living there instead in one of those big palatial museum like homes!
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  55. I thought you had maybe covered this house before. But I think your updated version is great too!
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  56. Ken, this really was an informative and enjoyable video! Love to visit his house and cat's ! Even in his early 50's Ernest looked like he had done a lot of living!
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  57. The louis the 14th style salon...Wow!
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  58. I love San Simeon! It stands on such much land, that at one time it took 20 minutes to drive from the entrance to the house!
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  59. The first house was amazing! When are we moving in Ken! 🤣
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  60. So excellent that the house still survives today!
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  61. 7:28 that room with the Buffalo mural is pretty cool! Glad the whole place and grounds have been preserved!
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  62. I hope a lot of the chairs and other antiques had been sold off before the boiler explosion! I can't imagine Louis XV furniture burning up! That would be heartbreaking !
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  63. That is great that he turned the house into luxury apartments and retail space! Pretty smart idea that helped the house live on a long time!
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  64. What a warm and beautiful house, both inside and out!
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  65. Beautiful and comfortable house! I like the blending of styles of the interior furnishings!
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  66. The house is so nice and bright inside! Lovely details and craftsmanship!
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  67. Great history and beautiful house that I am glad still stands!
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  68. Very interesting history! What an incredible life Mr. Jennings had! Dolly Madison wasn't very nice to say the least! Glad the house and it's history are preserved!
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  69. What an incredible place! The fireplace in the ballroom! I wonder if it was saved or maybe it was just too big! As beautiful as they are, these houses where excessive and really took a lot of money to keep up!
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  70. Lovely place! I liked the staircase and how the stained glass window lit it ! Lots of great wood in that house! Glad it still exists!
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  71. Beautiful! I love the wood paneling! Library was great! Prob your fav too Ken lol
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  72. So many great houses! The Stone house being the most interesting looking I think!
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  73. That library and it's unique furniture! A philanthropist maybe, but saving that dogs life goes beyond money!
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  74. If there was one house that should still be around today this should have been it! Tragic a fire had to destroy that place! At least some of the Glass was saved! But imagine what was lost!
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  75. The hand painted wallpaper! At first I thought they where tapestries !
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  76. Please delete if not allowed but his YT clip from the official oscar site, shows Pickfair and a very old Mary accepting an honorary academy award back in 1976. The camera goes right into the house, and you get some great views of different rooms! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXhqrbSeOE
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  77. Amazing architecture! Toronto Old City Hall built in 1899, by Edward James Lennox, was done in the Richardsonian Romanesque style ! That is why Glessner House looked so familiar to me!
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  78. The museum should give the dining room set back, so its in its rightful place!
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  79. Each one is a masterpiece! No one does it like the European's !
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  80. The Port of Missing Men house was a real retreat! The pool was amazing! I like that we get to see you at the beginning of the videos now too! Its more personable and not AI crap lol
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  81. Wonder how many of the rooms still look like they do in the pictures! Incredible that one family has managed to keep it going!
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  82. The Emerald Bathroom....Just change the wallpaper, the shower curtain and the seat cover!
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  83. The house was a bit of a museum, but did have some beautiful elements! I would like know where some of the salvaged interior went to!
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  84. The Elks lodge should be ashamed of themselves for letting the house go to rot!
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  85. Each one is beautiful ! I could live in any of them!
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  86. Southside was nice, both inside and out! Ocher Court looked more like a museum inside! Congrats on the sponsor!
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  87. Anything Moorish! The smoking room is incredible and I am so glad it got saved! Thanks for sharing the history!
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  88. When buying a historic or older house, you have to look out for a bunch of important things! Is the foundation intact! Are there any leaks or cracks that are evident! The roof is so important! How old is it...are there any leaks! The wiring...is it new....is there any old knob and tube...is it aluminum or copper wiring, what amperage is the panel? Get a home inspection from a valid and accredited inspector! Its worth every penny!
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  89. The tragedy of so much amazing architecture lost! No reason to visit Columbus it seems now!
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  90. Be nice to see how much of the interior still exists as shown in the photos! Interesting family history, and great house!
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  91. On a high school art trip to New York, we saw a replica of Frank's studio or library at the MOMA I think it was! Impressive with so many amazing elements !
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  92. Probably the most famous and also beautiful architectural houses in America!
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  93. The one word that seems to have been the demise of many amazing houses..."Developers" Money wins over everything it seems!
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  94.  @ThisHouse  Let's never talk about the pronunciation of 'Sabotage" lol esp being from Canada haha!
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  95. The redwood woodwork and details are what make this house great! Most of the current furniture shown does it no justice haha!
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  96. The bastards ripped it down for a golf course...Pathetic!
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  97. The whole place is stunning! Inside and out!
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  98. Ohhh that Morish smoking room is amazing!
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  99. From a distance it really looked like a castle! I was more impressed with the outside than the inside, but thats just because of the lack of available photos.
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  100. I am not too fond of the architectural style of the house. Although the interior does have some beautiful rooms!
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  101. Lovely place, inside and out! I wonder how stripped it is though? Hopefully they kept some of the ornate features and rooms and mainly only changed kitchen, bathrooms,, took out servant rooms etc. Wishful thinking on my part !
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  102. Nice one Nelson Rockefeller for donating the house and lands! Nicely done with the history information Ken!
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  103. Mortemar was beautiful especially from the outdoor views! Some great rooms too! I assume most of the houses besides this one are still standing!
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  104. Each residence was beautiful! Hard to choose one, especially because I have always liked Art Deco!
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  105. Amazing in this day and age that a house so historical and beautiful could be allowed to be demolished! Who got paid off? The usual bs that its all about money! So pathetic and sad! I was going to comment how I would love to visit it, and it looked like 20's mansion that had been bought and added too by Liberace!
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  106. I think my favourite part was Mary Pickford running down those monumental stairs at the front entrance!
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  107. Both houses where beautiful ! Amazes me how they built and lived in the Algerian Court, but got tired of it lol and built another that was so different!
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  108. Probably elements from different houses to get what he needed for the story!
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  109. Ken, I wonder if any of the reassembled rooms where removed and saved or used elsewhere. I know I saw some at the MOMA in NYC. Most had been removed from big mansions.
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  110. What a place! The ornamentation and detail are amazing ! Does Seaview Terrace still exist with the interiors of Aladdin's palace?
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  111. Maybe dark wood paneling and a coffered ceiling with a big ornate stone or marble fireplace! So tragic the place is gone, so we will never know!
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  112. Beautiful place inside and out! You opened the door on unusual names! My friends aunt was 'Pussy Maggot" ! Last name was pronounced like 'Ma joe ' But you can see the issue hahaha!
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  113. So many great rooms in this house! The use of big plants really makes some of the spaces too!
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  114. Another house with amazing hand crafted rooms! So much artistry going into building those palaces and then its all lost! Thanks TH !
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  115. The Drawing Room, with its Red Silk Damask covered walls ! And of course the Library!
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  116. It's kind of a given, that you can have a modern kitchen and a bathroom,in a historic house! Just keep it so it fits in and matches the rest of the house!
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  117. Nice to see you do a house from Canada Ken! Some beautiful rooms and a grande facade ! Maybe you could check into Casa Loma in Toronto. Scottish castle brought over stone by stone and rebuilt! The original owner ran out of money before it was completed!
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  118. The house was nice enough, but nothing really stood out to me! It's too bad the family fought over the will, even after she gave them so much!
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  119. OMG that Georgia house, there was a fire, but the grounds and the part of the house untouched, you could restore this place to be a real classic home again! Prob cost a Million though lol
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  120. Magnificent ! The statues and details, wow! There is another french Chateau' currently being restored, Château de Purnon. They have a channel, and the transformation is amazing to watch! Ken you would enjoy it and they have recreated some amazing wall paper from the 1780's from examples found in the chateau' !
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  121. I found that it was a bit like a hotel, more so than a house! It has the same 3 or 4 common factors with other big houses, the owner only gets to enjoy it for a few years, or no years like this one, the wife lives in it for a bit until they can't afford it, they sell it to a contractor who rips it down to build apartments or houses. Often the 1929 stock market crash can add to that!
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  122. Great tour! Amazing house with so much history!
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  123. What a stunning beautiful, yet comfortable house! Inside and out one of my favourite ones yet!
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  124. I thought that was very cool too! But in the updated photo, the pipes have been removed above the fireplace, so I assume the whole organ is gone. At least the fireplace is intact!
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  125. Beautiful house and property! I did not find much inside appealing though!
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  126. Thanks Ken! Having lived in Toronto and visited Casa Loma, I knew you would do it justice with a great video!
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  127. The townhouse of Harris F. Jr was my favourite!
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  128. It makes you wonder, when the wealthy where travelling through Europe and the Middle East, buying up furniture and objects, how did they get them shipped home safe and secure? Your in the Casbah and buy rugs and hookahs, but now you have to trust the seller to ship them...or somehow figure out if a ship was available etc!
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  129. It is a hodge podge of architecture on the outside! As a country home, maybe not as ornate as a city home! The gothic ballroom with the amazing castle fireplace and stained glass was nice!
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  130. Magnificent! Especially with 16 acres of manicured gardens!
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  131. Incredible story! He sounds like a power hungry charlatan! Amazing how a religion can still exist today, based on made up ideology from someone else!
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  132. This is the first time I have heard the real story Ken! Is the house still spewing the fictional story? Seriously if not, the true story should be made mandatory to tell at the house!
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  133. At least there are photos of them!
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  134. Gorgeous! Everything about it!
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  135. Ken, if I win the lottery this weekend we are going on a road trip to this incredible house! I can see how his interior design knowledge influenced the Dupont house interiors!
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  136. What a place! And it had some of the murdered Stanford White's furniture! It survived until the 70's! It should still be here now!
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  137. What a bunch of bs that was! The house had been totally restored after Mary died and was in great shape! There should have a grade listing put on it so it couldn't be altered. But you know how Hollywood is, they don't really care about the past!
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  138. stunning architectural and interior details! Nice to see it open as a museum, but really a wedding venue is ok too, to keep it going!
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  139. Great history in that house! Amazing they have preserved it! I know in downtown Toronto, they moved the William Campbell house across a road to build a new subway.
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  140. Wow he was larger than life it seems! Some great places that didn't take a lot to maintain, like many of the huge houses built for the other rich ones! The La Colina Solana house appeals to me for the big windows and rounded architecture features! But really all his places are nice...and I love that they are all still existing!
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  141. Yes! Thankfully we have photo's and Ken!
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  142. I wonder what the interior looks like now, and how much of the original exists!
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  143. I Wonder how much of the original interior is still intact!
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  144. Beautiful Palace, but with a dark history! Being forced into statehood and now I have heard the islands are getting too expensive for the native people to live ! I guess it must be great to go there on vacation, and have your Denny's and Mcdonalds and screw the native culture!
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  145. The Potter Palmer mansion look beautiful and incredible!
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  146. So was there a big auction of all the items and art work? The marble and the woodwork alone was spectacular, I wonder if it was saved too, Hopefully the rooms from the Chateau's ! Maybe the MOMA has them I remember seeing some, that had been taken from some NYC mansions.
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  147. The lovers description, wouldn't boyfriend or partner be a bit more appropriate! Just my opinion. Thanks for your notes!
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  148. I read that the estate being so huge, that originally it took 20 minutes to drive from the Gate house to the castle!
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  149. I would be into watching that, but I think it could have its own channel. I like how this channel features magnificent houses from a specific period!
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  150. What a gorgeous house! Thankfully another one that still stands and you can still visit!
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  151. I liked the library in the first house, but I really liked most of the second house better!
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  152. That spiral staircase was incredible! The whole house is a living museum! Is it owned by the same family, or open to the public ?
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