He hopes to get $18.8 million for the Stevenson House and is asking $19.5 million for his never-inhabited red-brick Presidio Heights mansion, billed in promotional material as being "in the style of Henry IV at the Place des Vosges in Paris".
The group supports the Whitfield-Mansion bill, claiming in a statement Thursday that the EPA is "recklessly determined to phase out coal".
With Mario M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in the governor's mansion, the bill seemed destined to become law.
Staging a three-bedroom home starts at $10,000, but for larger, sprawling mansions, the bill can run into the $100,000 range.
And as long as Republicans practically rule Texas — right now, they run the House, Senate, and governor's mansion — bathroom bills are fated to return.
The financier threw a 50th-birthday bash for third wife Gayfryd at his mansion on Long Island, the bill for which was reportedly over $1 million.
But then every house has its limits, whether a glass one or a mega-mansion with heating bills of $30,000 and more.
Mr. Kaine, a Democrat, has also said he will reduce spending at the executive mansion, including cutting the grocery bill, taking fewer trips and cleaning the drapes less often.
And Henry Clay Frick - right, that Frick; the coke and steel magnate who built the big mansion on Fifth Avenue - sent a bill back to Scribner's on Jan . 15 , 1915saying, "I think I should have a discount on the purchase of books made about Christmas time, for prompt cash - say 10 percent".
