Estates
Eastwood Farm, Warrenton, Virginia
Circa 1800 an enchanting family haven was created for a bucolic pastorale in Warrenton, Virginia. Today, Eastwood Farm charmingly recalls those early days in its magnificently restored 7,100-square-foot mansion and redolent English gardens. Among cherished settings are a hunt room,…
Charleston, South Carolina
Circa 1820 a stately Federal dwelling was handcrafted a story above the street just steps from High Battery in what is now Charleston’s Historic District. As you sit in the elegant main rooms with their high ceilings and heart-pine floors…
Dallas, Texas
One of Dallas’s early leading architects, Hal Thomson, designed the majestic formal manor in the Old Highland Park tradition and imbued it with the fullest measure of Texas hospitality. In its mature beautiful poolside gardens, the historic home is known…
Roellen Ranch, Athens, Texas
Sprawling over 450 acres near Dallas, the Roellen Ranch—a Texas landmark and one of the world’s great equestrian properties—boasts a 32,600-square-foot show barn and indoor arena patterned after Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth. The antebellum-style mansion highlights a soaring…
Rafter L Ranch, Sulphur Springs, Texas
Rafter L Ranch, a grand Texas cattle ranch an hour from Dallas, is crowned by a formal manor fashioned for important gatherings. A double staircase introduces the 18,000 square feet. Dominating the main floor is a 36-foot-high great room overlooking…
Austin, Texas
Enveloped in serene privacy, the multiacre waterfront estate near downtown Austin—city home to movie stars, legendary musicians, and world-class athletes—awakens to top-of-the-world views of diamondlike Lake Austin and the famed Hill Country. The architectural gem, crafted as a grand entertainment…
Redwood Grove, Benbow, California
In 1926 San Francisco hotel heiress Margaret Stewart commissioned Julia Morgan to design a sumptuous country estate for an emerald paradise bordering forestland on the largest expanse of northern California’s Eel River. Meticulously restored, Redwood Grove glows with Morgan’s signature.…
Houston, Texas
The stately brick Colonial nestled in poolside gardens high atop one of the exclusive drives in River Oaks beautifully expresses the traditional elegance of Houston’s most legendary estate setting. A floating staircase greets you in the entrance hall. Beyond, formal…
Las Vegas, Nevada
A spectacular stage for extraordinary evenings backdropped by the mountains and lights of Las Vegas, the poolside showplace in the glamour capital of the world reveals a resortlike refuge of over 14,000 square feet. The centerpiece is a vast entertainment…
Seattle, Washington
Faithful to the gardenscapes and uninterrupted water sweeps of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, Charles A. Platt’s design for the Stimson family in 1923 was heralded as the most distinguished residence to be constructed on the bluffs of the…
Medina, Washington
The owners wanted to evoke childhood memories of summers in a 1930s New England coastal farmhouse. Choosing a nautical 337-foot waterscape along Lake Washington near Seattle in Medina that rekindled the mood perfectly, they commissioned Tom Bosworth to invigorate the…
Seattle, Washington
Few sites in the Northwest rival the Queen Anne perch for its electrifying panorama across Seattle’s skyline to Elliott Bay and the Cascade and Olympic mountains. Still, it is the much-publicized architecture itself that infuses power into the dynamic sentinel.…
Aspen, Colorado
The dramatic wood-and-stone hideaway at Aspen Highlands epitomizes life on Aspen’s renowned ski slopes. The generous 8,500 square feet bestow a soaring living room, high-tech media lounge, gourmet kitchen with elevator to the garage, and six bedrooms featuring a towering…
The Lodge at Five Trees, Aspen, Colorado
The Lodge at Five Trees is a world-class embodiment of Old World charm. A ski lodge in the grandest sense, it nestles dramatically with ski-in and ski-out access on over an acre with a waterfall near the breathtaking slopes of…
Lake Tahoe, California
From the view-filled guesthouses (one of which is pictured left) to the captivating ten-bedroom residential lodge created in the 1920s, the compound at sparkling Meeks Bay rekindles the lake’s heyday—when it was the place to be for Tahoe’s elite, welcoming…