The real deal….
https://apple.news/AeUaJPAFzQMW5wOfQxyPF9Q
How about a nice island home:
https://www.redfin.com/NY/Kings-Poin.../home/20582043
Comes with a nice dock. Good place to look longingly across the water towards a green light.
-jk
Also, if all the amenities the Uber rich can put in their home, why so many bowling alleys? It’s a fun game but not THAT fun and not really much to brag about to other rich friends, I would think.
Hmmm. You could be onto something. I wonder when the White House alley was put in. IIRC, it was added by Nixon. Was bowling once considered a wealthy sport? That could go a long way toward explaining the Vanderbilts and their wannabes. I just think of it as such a blue collar sport today…
Over 100 years ago, the Vanderbilts took a fancy to an amazing piece of land in Shelburne, Vermont, so they bought out all the local farmers, ran a railroad track directly onto the property (so the family could just hop on the family train in NYC and cruise on up), got Freddie Law Olmstead to design the grounds, and voila!
As happens with family dynasties, the money dried up a few decades ago, but the remaining family turned it into a wildly successful non profit farm/education and lodging facility that's open to the public (and you can book a room in the Summer).:
https://shelburnefarms.org/sites/def...raub_print.jpg
This is a photo of one of their several barns, which are world class in size and beauty...