Earlier, Sir Morton Peto at Somerleyton had sunk his fortune – also based on the railways – into an estate near Lowestoft (building a mansion, model village and, naturally, a station) before the banks foreclosed on him, allowing the Crossleys, carpet magnates from Halifax, to slip into his shoes.
The signs' most persistent opponent was a satellite-television mogul named Rene Anselmo, who lived in a mansion modelled on the Petit Trianon, at Versailles.
The spa, a sprawling compound with a quaint New England inn and a mansion modeled after Versailles, still charges the 18percentt fee, which is now called an "amenities fee".
Chateau Louis XIV's price tag is also well above Florida's $139 million 'Le Palais Royal' a 60,000 sq ft mansion modelled after Versailles – officially the most expensive home on the market in the US.
Inside the towering iron gates of Green Acres, a Beverly Hills estate built in the nineteen-twenties by the silent-film actor Harold Lloyd, a narrow road climbs through eight acres of lawns and gardens to a mansion modelled on the Villa Palmieri, the Florentine palazzo where Boccaccio set the "Decameron".
I don't want to be stupid!" Inside the towering iron gates of Green Acres, a Beverly Hills estate built in the nineteen-twenties by the silent-film actor Harold Lloyd, a narrow road climbs through eight acres of lawns and gardens to a mansion modelled on the Villa Palmieri, the Florentine palazzo where Boccaccio set the "Decameron".
Siegel (who claims to have played a major role in getting George W. Bush elected President) and his busty wife, Jackie, were well on their way to building their dream home in Orlando -- a 90,000 square-foot mansion modeled after the famous Palace at Versailles -- when the recession wiped out their main source of income (Westgate Resorts and Timeshares).
Gated subdivisions of miniature stucco "mansions," modeled after San Diego developments and bearing names like Capistrano, are being built for the middle class.
Chinese real-estate developments with names like Majesty Manor and Top Aristocrat package themselves as enclaves of Old World opulence, their properties complete with moats, replicas of Buckingham Palace gates, and mansions modelled after Versailles.
She's in New York to present her pre-fall collection; after our lunch, we will head uptown to the Park Avenue mansion where models will play hopscotch and throw shapes in miniature electric cars, and guests will include Patti Smith, Jerry Seinfeld, Liv Tyler and Susan Sarandon.
