Architecture - let's talk buildings!

[Phoenix520]

The one the got me curious is the throne carved out of a tree. I couldn’t tell which building it was in -the one with the frosted basement.

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And also the gigantic safe.

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I’ve tried to remove the dupe pic but I just screwed it up worser.

[Chilidog]

The throne room is in the gazebo. It's a stand alone building. Supposedly it was a "Liberty Tree planted in the early 1800s. Did you notice the American flag motif in the stained glass cupola windows?

[Chilidog]

HOW MANY KITCHENS?



Based on the zillow photos:

MAIN HOUSE:

Kitchen #1: (original house) Images 42 -44 First Floor: black refrigerator, stove and dishwasher. Cast iron sink by the refrigerator, brass bar sink. this is more like a warming kitchen / bar,

Kitchen #2: images 46 – 52 First Floor: directly adjacent to kitchen # 1. Wall oven micro set up, range top with ceramic tile countertops. Small pantry section behind the range and the devil’s own staircase leading up from the back of the kitchen.

Kitchen #3: images 53 to 56 adjacent to kitchen number 2. First Floor. This looks like it was the original “summer kitchen” or at least an enclosed porch that was filled in. this is the odd area on the left of the back side main house (see image 9). This is not a full kitchen, but it has a small fridge, a microwave and a dishwasher.

Kitchen #4: Images 79-80: there is a sink and dishwasher a microwave and a small, one pot induction range top. The images don’t show the fridge.

Kitchen #5: Images 83, 87-90. Third floor, behind the chimney at the porno studio. Full sized kitchen with induction range top, double micro electric wall oven, dishwasher, AND a trach compactor.

Kitchen #6: - images 110 to 114. Basement. (Adjacent to the bar) this is the large eat in kitchen with the island the fake fireplace and the fake skylight.

CARRIAGE HOUSE / M.I.L. HOUSE

Kitchen 7: images 138-145: first floor. This is my favorite. A large, well laid out eat in kitchen with a commercial cooktop / range/ oven, and a fridge you could hang a side of beef in.

Kitchen #8: Images 159-161 second floor (?). small auxiliary kitchen eating area overlooking the main floor great room.

Kitchen #9: Images 167*168 third floor. It’s a coffee nook, really. A mini fridge, a sink and a microwave.

Kitchen #10: Images 190-191, 193 basement: kitchen bar combo. stove range micro, fridge, and dishwasher. Not much prep / workspace.



TRAIN DEPOT

Kiitchen #11 images 205-206 small service kitchen

GAZEBO

Kitchen #12: Image 210. Coffee nook with sink micro and mini fridge.

[Phoenix520]

This house would cost much more in California. I’m so jaded about prices here, when I look elsewhere on Realtor or Zillow I get so excited and want to move… anywhere cheaper… immediately.

This would be a good Fogbow Meeting House, huh?

[Chilidog]

I looked it up on Google Earth.

It's surrounded by mostly industrial use property.
Except for a small tract of historical marker land signifying that the general area was the site of the battle of Carthage one of the first major battles in the Civil War.

It's not where I would choose to live.

The cult vibe is strong here.

[AndyinPA]

Really weird house(s). Generally speaking, I like the wood used in the house, but there was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much of it. I'd be interested in the history of the house. I can't imagine why anyone would build so many kitchens in a house.

[Phoenix520]

South Pasadena has a number of examples of houses like this, but not in an industrial area.

One house took up an entire block and has since been sliced and diced into three enormous homes. It had 5 fireplaces just on the first floor. You could see all but one from the foyer. A chapel on the third floor, a luggage room (think steamer trunks), 5 kitchens, an INDOOR KOI POND, eight bathrooms, and more.

[AndyinPA]

There's a mansion we drive by about ten miles from us. It's a Tudor mansion, and it's landscaped in the hills so that you really can only see all the chimneys above the hills. It has a large garage, swimming pool, tennis court, mini golf course, and two horse barns that are as gorgeous as the house seems to be. You can see them from the road, better than the house itself. The two of them must hold dozens of horses. They are huge. The house and property are in a suburban area in Washington County, south of Allegheny. People move there for big houses and lower taxes. We looked it up one time out of curiosity and got a better look at it than you can see from the road. The last time it changed hands, about ten years ago, it sold for about $4,000,000. It's not in an industrial area, but the road to the side of it now goes to a fracking site. I wonder if that has hurt its value. I've been in some huge houses in California, and I'm sure this, with all the property, would sell for many times more there.

Washington County is a lovely area. It used to be a lot of farmland, but over the last 20-25 years has become the go-to place to build McMansions.(The Tudor is not that.)

[Chilidog]

This property listing has been getting a lot of attention from the Facebook group "architecture shaming"

The exteriors of the buildings are nice....

Parts of the interiors are nice, but, as you click thru the pictures (all 222 of them) you start to notice little, odd, disturbing details in the layout and the interior decorating....



And then it gets really wierd....


https://www.realtor.com/realestateandho ... 8qToObYuDM

There’s some culty-looking things in the “other” category…

Based on the Catholic nature of the saints and the Madonna statues...

And the stained glass window with the cross in a circle...

I'm going to say "Opus Dei."

[Chilidog]

OK. Here is another one.

The exterior is quite nice.

The interior.......

Well, I like the wine cellar.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandho ... 8062-53655

[Phoenix520]

Yikes!
Yikes!
Oh dear dog.

Chili, where do you find these things?

[MN-Skeptic]

OK. Here is another one.

The exterior is quite nice.

The interior.......

Well, I like the wine cellar.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandho ... 8062-53655

Oh dear Lord. No. Just... no.

That green carpet...

[AndyinPA]

Whoa!

I love green, but not that much in decorating. I love wood, but also too much. That's a lot of house on an .38 acres.

[Chilidog]

I'd spend all my time in the wine cellar.

[northland10]

I was looking at the first photos and thinking, well, that's a simple thing that could use some tightening up of the outside. Then, I scrolled down.

OMG.. my eyes.

I have a friend who used to live not that far away from that house. I should ask him if he had heard about it.

[Whatever4]

Just needs a bit of updating. And downsizing.

[Volkonski]

The leaning tower of San Francisco.

Leaning San Francisco skyscraper is tilting 3 inches per year as engineers rush to implement fix
The 58-story, 645-foot tall Millennium Tower is now tilting 26 inches north and west at in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/le ... d_nn_tw_ma

The engineer trying to stabilize the Millennium Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper in San Francisco that is sinking into the ground and now leaning over two feet off of center, said the building is now tilting three inches per year.

Structural engineer Ronald O. Hamburger made the comments Thursday at a city hearing in which he pitched an updated fix for the building's foundation, NBC Bay Area reported.

The 58-story, 645-foot tall tower — opened to residents in 2009 — is now tilting 26 inches north and west at Fremont and Mission Streets in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district, the NBC News affiliate reported.



But efforts to stabilize the sinking and leaning skyscraper seemed to worsen matters. Engineers halted construction on the fix in summer 2021 so they could “determine why increased foundation movement was occurring and how this could be mitigated.”

[RTH10260]

The giant sinkhole that swallows skyscrapers

[roadscholar]

Is a tilt of 0.18 degrees really an emergency?

[RTH10260]

When your coffee spills....

[Estiveo]

The entertaining thing about the poor Millennium Tower debacle has been that everything they try to fix it just makes it worse. It's a slow-motion disaster film.

[pipistrelle]

The entertaining thing about the poor Millennium Tower debacle has been that everything they try to fix it just makes it worse. It's a slow-motion disaster film.

My reco: take it down before everyone dies.

[RTH10260]

How far down to the bedrock? Will they reach China when they drill for it

[Foggy]

I suggest we place some nice fluffy pillows where it's going to land when it finally tips over.

I know of a guy who has a bunch of pillows he needs to unload ...

[June bug]

I suggest we place some nice fluffy pillows where it's going to land when it finally tips over.

I know of a guy who has a bunch of pillows he needs to unload ...