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Alas, we return to the long, long, long 19th century. What's strange about this house is that they didn't include any of the other bedrooms in the listing -- there is one I could find on Zillow, but still, if I was going to drop $3.5 mil on this thing I should be able to see every room.
At any rate, there are several bonus bonus rooms here for perusal. The first is the second sitting room:
If I were in grad school for architectural history (or, frankly, American studies) I would be tearing my hair out trying to create evidence for an additional colonial revival that is somehow different than the bicentennial colonial revival -- one predicated on worse furniture than the barrel chairs.
The hold hunter green and English ivy motifs had on the mid-90s is also an understudied cultural element. Weird kind of pastoral kitsch.
Sherlock Holmes didn't die and then get brought back to life because his death was going to bankrupt the newspaper the stories were serialized in for this.
Of course there would be a wine cave! Every type of beverage-consuming social situation, internalized with in the home, has to be represented or it's not REAL wealth. Also I like how we have to pretend there's not drywall behind all those rocks.
Finally, we have the last bedroom (I had to switch to Zillow so sorry about the arrows) which is a key insight into the rest of the house: it's somehow even more dated despite being built at the same time as the other rooms. The thing is, the other rooms are also very 1997, so I don't quite know how this is possible. Talent!