Buyer's Guide to Famous Houses in Film History

Name: THE RICH ESTATE
aka: The Biltmore House
Owner: Richard Rich and family
Location: Richville
Really in: Asherville, NC
Area: 135,000 sq.ft. manor on 8,000 acres lot
Price: Billions

Description: A whooping 250 rooms. A 70,000 gallon indoor pool and a bowling alley. The Rich Estate also prides itself with a 2-storey library, elevators and a roller coaster. This is not a house. This is a resort hotel. And lets not forget, it has it's own McDonald's.

You can have a McDonald's Happy Meal anytime you like, and you won't run out of those toys.

Name: MANDERLEY
Owner: Maxim de Winter
Location: Cornwall, England
Price: in your dreams

Description: Manderlay. The name flows through the tongue like a Jane Austen novel. A grand entrance hall greets you as you enter and up the grand staircase you go to he/she wings. There's a ballroom, a library and a morning room. Manderlay also comes with a full staff ready to do your bidding and call you Lord and Madam de WInter, if you so prefer.

You can get lost in a place like this, it is advisable to carry a compass at all times.

Name: 10086 SUNSET BOULEVARD
Owner: Norma Desmond
Location: Sunset Boulevard, CA
Price: Negotiable, though its $250,000 in 1924

Description: One of the most sought after properties in Hollywood, this villa-type residence is chock-full of movie memories where silent stars of the silver screen once held lavish pool parties, danced in the ballroom, played in the tennis court and watched themselves in the movie projection room.

The pool's so inviting you won't have time to get your clothes off.

Name: PIERCE PATCHETT'S HOUSE
aka: The Lovell Health House
Architect: Richard Neutra
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Price: $59,000 construction costs in 1929

Description: An avant-garde dream house. It has everything from a swimming pool, sun decks, outdoor sleeping porches, exercise yards, basketball and handball courts to a revolving cooler (whatever that is).
Be the envy of your artsy-fartsy friends!

Live like a movie star! Here's a view from a paparazzi's.

Name: CORLEONE MANSION
Owner: The Corleone Family
Location: Long Island, NY
Area: 4 acres
Price: $2.9M (2010)

Description: The serene mansion has 8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 4 car garage, a pool, and a basement pub. There's a big lawn that's good for family gatherings like weddings and birthday parties.

Security is really the best part of this property.

Name: 4-STOREY BROWNSTONE IN MANHATTAN
Owner: Meg Altman
Location: West 94th Street and Columbus Avenue, Manhattan
Price: Unknown at the moment, but there's supposed to be $3 Million in bearer bonds hidden in a safe.

Includes: Spacious living in this 4-storey apartment with its own elevator. Ideal for single working mothers. The real deal, however, is its security system and panic room with a 4-inch thick steel door.

Really frustrate robbers with your own elevator.

Name: BALDWIN'S HOUSEBOAT
Owner: Sam Baldwin
Location: Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Area: 2,075 sq.ft.
Price: $2.5M (in 2008)

Description: This corner houseboat has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a dock. It is easily one of the best, affordable houseboats in Seattle with a friendly and romantic atmosphere.

In this kind of digs, you'll sleep very soundly in Seattle.

Name: CULLEN RESIDENCE
Owner: The Cullens
Architect: Arthur Erickson
Location: Off Forks, WA
Really in: West Vancouver
Price: $3.3 M
Area: 5,000 sq.ft.

Description: A dream vacation house in the woods! This ultra modern residence includes 5 bedrooms, pool, fireplace and study. It is also equipped with a vegetarian kitchen! Commune with nature in the most elegant way!

Half-naked locals can be counted on to buy you groceries in a flash.

Name: TONY MONTANA'S CASA
Owner: Tony Montana
Location: Miami
Area: 10 acres
Really in: Santa Barbara, CA
Price: $35M

Description: Overlooking the lake, this grand white mansion has 5 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, pool, fireplaces, guest house, patio, and possibly drugs.

The bathtub really takes the cake.

Name: WAYNE MANOR
aka: Mentmore Towers
Owner: Bruce Wayne
Location: Gotham City
Really in: Buckinhamshire, England

Architect: Joseph Paxton

Price: £220,000 for the house minus its contents in 1977

Description: It is inspired by both French and Italian Renaissance architecture, Wayne manor has over 100 rooms of every kind: Drawing room, library, vestibule, billiards room, smoking room, garden, and rooms called "Amber," "Iimoges," "du Barry,"Blarenberghe," and "Cour d'honneur." It has recently revealed a secret passage that goes to a cave.

Here's the owner for some spelunking in nearby cave.

Name: NURSING HOME
Owner: Staffed by Queenie & Tizzie Weathers
Location: New Orleans, LA
Price: $2.85 M
Area: 7,800 sq.ft.

Description: 6 bedrooms, music room, library, reception hall

You won't find a happier group of would-be staff.

Name: TARA
Owner: The O'Haras
Location: Jonesborough, GA
Area: 1,000 acres of plantation

Price: $5,000K in 1979

Description: Tara! The historical residence that was gone with the wind includes 4 bedrooms, attic, parlor, front and back stairs, basement, outbuildings, and slaves.

The bedposts serve some good purpose.

Name: FALCONER RESIDENCE
or: The Schaffer House
Owner: George Falconer
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Really in: Whiting Woods, Glendale, CA
Architect: John Edward Lautner
Price: $1.5M

Description: A house that's a work of art was described to give you that "floating" feeling. 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, pivoting doors, carport, den and a very chic fireplace.

The revolving, pivot glass panels may make you feel a bit naked though.

Name: HOWARDS END
or: Peppard Cottage
Owner: Margaret Schlegel
Location: Oxfordshire, England
Price: Mornings in Howards End are priceless.
Includes: Study, parlor, fireplace, and lots of vines

The mailman always come with the most pressing news.

Name: GREY GARDENS (RENOVATED)
Owner: Edith and Edie Beale
now by: Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn
Location: 3 West End Road and Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, NY
Price: $220,000 in 1979
Includes: 14 rooms (6 bedrooms), deck, garden, pool (new)

Name: THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS HOUSE
Owner: The Royal Tenenbaums
Location: 111 Archer Avenue
really in: 144th Street and Convent Ave., Harlem, NY
Area: 8,000 sq.ft.
Price: $460,000 in 2000
Includes: 4 floors with attic and rooftop, stained-glass windows, ornate wooden mantlepieces, skylit closets, network of numerous antechambers, themed bedrooms, ballroom, gameroom.

The house breeds quirky character!

Name: McALLISTER RESIDENCE
Owner: The McAllisters
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Area: 4,243 sq.ft. (house) 23,278 sq.ft. (lot)
Price: $1.8M
Includes: 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, tree house, and a hyper-active kid.

Comes alive during Christmas.

Name: BRECHT'S RESIDENCE
or: The Hadley Estate
Owner: Kale & Julie Brecht
Location: Whittier, CA
Area: 4,000 sq.ft. house
Price: $1.25M
Includes: 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, skylight, sun room, and wrap-around porch.



-just one of the many interesting views from inside the house.

Name: RODANTHE BED & BREAKFAST
or: Serendipity House
Owner: a lonely divorced woman keeps the place all tidy during off-season.
Location: Rodanthe, NC
Price: $499,000 (more or less)
Includes: 6 bedrooms, dining hall, decks, hurricane blast doors, and a second chance in love.



-you can even bring it anywhere you like.

Name: STARK RESIDENCE
Owner: Tony Stark
Location: Malibu, CA
Price: $117M
Area: 25,000 sq ft.
Includes: Hi-tech workshop, State-of-the-art security system, Iron Man suits