House of the Week: a $14-million, Versailles-like estate in the Bridle Path that’s up for auction
House of the Week: a $14-million, Versailles-like estate in the Bridle Path that’s up for auction
Address: 40 Park Lane Circle
Neighbourhood: Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills
Agent: Concierge Auctions in conjunction with Barry Cohen, Re/Max Realtron Realty Inc., Brokerage
Price: Depends. It’s due to be sold at auction on November 26. The last list price was $23,000,000, but the house is currently on MLS for $13,980,000.
The Place: A not-quite-finished, Louis XIV-inspired compound in the Bridle Path that will be sold at auction on November 26 (register to bid here).
Bragging Rights: If the Versailles of Vaughan didn’t impress you, this place may just do the trick. With indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court, a grand ballroom, eight bedrooms, fourteen bathrooms and a theatre, this house personifies opulence.
Big Selling Point: A ton of room. The house is on 2.4 acres of land and has 27,000 square feet of indoor space.
Possible Deal Breaker: For all its grandeur, this Xanadu isn’t actually finished. Given that you’re going to have to endure some construction, you may prefer to start from scratch (and a similar-sized plot nearby is priced at a mere $8.75 million).
By the Numbers:
• Previously offered at $23,000,000
• 27,000 square feet
• 30-foot-tall Corinthian columns
• 14 bathrooms
• 8 bedrooms
• 2.4 acres
• 2-storey front foyer
• 1 set of architectural drawings available
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- This Bridle Path estate takes inspiration from the Palace of Versailles and Palladian architecture. The property is 2.4 acres
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- The exterior of the house is adorned with custom cartouches, friezes, and rosettes, as well as 30-foot Corinthian columns
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- The front portico
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- The interiors await finishing touches from the new owners
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- The house was designed by architect Jacques Dinel, who calls it "a jewel in the making”
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- The conservatory, which, along with the living room and dining room, was designed for large-scale entertaining
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- A detail of highly-ornamented interior
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- One of the home’s 14 bathrooms
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Bragging Rights: If the Versailles of Vaughan didn’t impress you, this place may just do the trick. With indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court, a grand ballroom, eight bedrooms, fourteen bathrooms and a theatre, this house personifies opulence.
Big Selling Point: A ton of room. The house is on 2.4 acres of land and has 27,000 square feet of indoor space.
Possible Deal Breaker: For all its grandeur, this Xanadu isn’t actually finished. Given that you’re going to have to endure some construction, you may prefer to start from scratch (and a similar-sized plot nearby is priced at a mere $8.75 million).
By the Numbers:
• Previously offered at $23,000,000
• 27,000 square feet
• 30-foot-tall Corinthian columns
• 14 bathrooms
• 8 bedrooms
• 2.4 acres
• 2-storey front foyer
• 1 set of architectural drawings available
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wow that’s ugly… guess they ran out of money for landscaping
It’s not the landscaping that’s the real problem, it’s the architecture: that’s just about the most ostentatiously vile front wall in the whole city. Ungainly and unbalanced, its bizarrely squared off roofline looks like the false fronts of a old Wild West townscape, now updated for the insecure vulgarian trying to buy their way to some delusion of respectability. Totally grotesque.
$14 Million is a high price – But then again all houses on The Bridge path, Toronto start at 7$ Million.
Architecture of this house is rather strange I agree, Not the modern chic look but more of an older style palace.
But then again if your looking for a chic look you can always get a condo in downtown toronto for almost over $20million. Talk about high end Toronto real estate.
Natalie Zwenka,
Toronto Condos
http://www.torontoscondolife.com
it’s so ugly, who the hell is gonna by this?