This morning while the Mistress swilled coffee in a perfectly futile attempt to shake last night's booze intake from my brain I tap danced around the internets where I came across a wee cache of photographs of the monumental Glen Cove,NY mansion, Winfield Hall that recently came up for sale amid much fanfare and publicity with an asking price of only $19,500,000. And, children, the photographs are mag-nih-fih-cent. Like candy for the eyes. And it is ready to move in with most rooms already empty. Winfield Hall is the former summer home of F.W. Woolworth. It was completed in 1917 with the marble foyer and staircase alone costing more than two million dollars. If you saw the historic Woolworth mansion in Glen Cove come back on the market and then quickly disappear, there's good reason: HBO has secured the 1917 estate as a location for the upcoming "Mildred Pierce" miniseries starring Kate Winslet, and for now the estate is off the market. But it will go back up again, after filming, so the Mistress will have to move quick! Woolworth's other mansion in New York City is also for sale by the Estate of the late exercise queen Lucille Roberts, and is selling for a huge $90,000,000.00, making it the most expensive listing in the Big Apple. But the Mistress wants the Glen Cove place. I have a cousin who lives in Glen Cove, and I have seen the place when I visited years ago. What do you think, should the Mistress purchase that joint for her weekend get-a-ways? Y'all can visit too, I'm bring along all the house boys and my social director, Anitia Moorecock to tend to things that arise! Tootles!
It's a steal sweetie. I think you should jump on it.
ReplyDeleteIt will make visits especially nice since you will have room for my harem to accompany me. They really don't like to be seperated from me or from each other. They are like puppies that way. ;)
Well, I would LOVE to come visit. Do you even need to ask!
ReplyDeleteI think the Mistress does need this place, think of the parties you'll have! And orgies!
ReplyDeleteWill I visit? I'm ready to move in!
ReplyDeleteLooking at these pictures makes me want to cry. I can't bear seeing such a gorgeous property so devoid of life and fallen into such disrepair. I think with your skills Mistress you could breath in life into it!
ReplyDeleteI am sure that most folks do not realize that some of these magnificent mansions are doomed. So I say save it!
ReplyDeleteOMG! You need that! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteShades of Richie Rich, Arthur and Thurston Howell III! It's like we never left the gilded age. "Mistress, put another thousand on the fire, it's going to be chilly tonight."
ReplyDeleteI say scoop it up! It's stunning! And I want to be part of Sassy's harem!
ReplyDeleteMistress, if you want it go for it! It would be fabulous for soriees but the Casa right now is enough for me to handle in addition to my social director job! And you can't take the house boys, they stay here!
ReplyDeleteGee, Mistress, I think that place would put a little cramp in your style. You need more space.
ReplyDeleteYou MUST have it! Think of the children!
ReplyDeleteOh Mistress, once again I could cry with pride! Your excellent peeking & poking around the interweb has brought us some more juicy real estate porn ––– and porn with a pedigreed provenance at that, too! Of course you need it!
ReplyDeleteOh my god. This mansion is so beutiful. I love watching every single picture. If it's possible to buy it, I would love to.
ReplyDeleteDarling.... think of all the wayward drag queens you could foster there! If could be the Mistress Borghese's School of Swank Drag!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the superb pics. I've just finished reading Five and Ten, the history of the Woolworth empire. It's great to be able to see what nickels and dimes were able to achieve! Sadly,here in the UK we have recently lost the Woolworth brand.
ReplyDeleteOh girl, you so need this place it has you written all over it! It is a stunning place! The Woolworth's family has has intrested me.
ReplyDeleteMy if all these people want to come and stay I may have to bunk with you Mistress!
ReplyDeletePerfect setting for you!
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