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…
Crystal Harbor Lodge, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Drama begins when you enter Crystal Harbor Lodge. At the gates, giant ponderosa pines stand as lofty sentinels. Impeccable lawns and terraced gardens sweep to a sandy beach and sparkling deepwater harbor. A sundeck beckons from atop a view-filled beach…
Villa Canadita, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Villa Canadita is a world-class Xanadu of wonder. Nestled on a breathtaking hillside steps from San Miguel de Allende’s historic center, the multilevel marvel, along with its office casita, marries antique doors and windows from India, Burma, China, and Morocco…
Casa Mis Rocas, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
When Vallarta’s master architect Cachi Perez waved his wand, the celebrity’s vision of what a beach house in Puerto Vallarta should be materialized fully. Laced with Mediterranean romance, sun-drenched Casa Mis Rocas is a visual feast. The soaring villa dominates…
Overyonder Cay, Bahamas
Seventy miles southeast of Nassau, Overyonder Cay creates a celestial paradise. The leasehold island overlooks Exuma Sound, its five beaches adorned with a 900-foot crescent deepwater bay beach with two gazebos and a 70-foot dock. The main beach faces southeast,…
Thanda Royal Residences, Zululand, South Africa
Under the African sky, there exists a place where time began. A place like no other. Unique, untouched, undiscovered. And in a world where there are few places left to be discovered, when you discover it, you celebrate its powerful…
Manhattan, New York
Built in 1873 as a four-story town house in what is now the elite Upper East Side’s Historic Treadwell District, the ravishing stucco ensemble—today with a fifth and partial sixth floor—is a city symphony of sophistication and elegance. A marble…
Manhattan, New York
The year was 1888. The commission, a baronial town house in the era’s newly emerging Craftsman style. Respected architectural firm Thom & Wilson, renowned for the Harlem Courthouse and fanciful Moorish-styled Hampton Apartments in Greenwich Village, were more than up…
Hammersley Hill, Pawling, New York
A Hammersley family treasure for almost 200 years, Quaker Hills’ 350-acre Hammersley Hill perches on a hilltop in Pawling overlooking mile-long Quaker Lake with a 50-mile panorama that reaches to the Catskills. Former owner Lowell Thomas broadcast many of his…
Deerfield, Bedford, New York
Less than an hour from Manhattan, a quiet country lane in prized Mount Holly estate area—a pocket of tranquillity near riding trails and a nature sanctuary—unveils a visually stunning Georgian Colonial glorifying over eight acres. On velvety lawns with stonewalls,…
Blue Heron Lake, Bedford, New York
Blue Heron Lake, named for its spectacular eight-acre setting along the deepest part of sparkling Blue Heron Lake, is a place of intoxicating natural beauty. A fresh interpretation of the great wilderness camps of the nineteenth century, it harmoniously interweaves…