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Extravagant $68 Million NJ Mansion Hits The Market
Drudge ^ | 06/05/2010 | Cindy Hsu

Posted on 06/06/2010 3:21:24 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan

Friday, one of the most expensive homes in America officially went on the market – for $68 million.

It's taken more than two years to build, and it's just eight miles outside of Manhattan, in Alpine, New Jersey.

It's called the Stone Mansion – 30,000 square feet of home sitting on two acres of land. Richard Kurtz is the owner, and he started building the home for just himself and his wife – but the plans kept getting bigger and bigger.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: realestate
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To: gthog61

No, I’m not confused at all. I know exactly what’s going on, just being a bit sarcastic.


21 posted on 06/06/2010 5:03:37 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan

I could find a better place than that for 68 Million.


22 posted on 06/06/2010 5:05:13 AM PDT by csvset
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To: FES0844

And mowing the lawn, weed whacking, gardening, general upkeep, fecthing the mail, walking Fido, etc.

Probably dozens of them. Should go over there and bust his ass.


23 posted on 06/06/2010 5:08:07 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan
Actually, Alpine is an extraordinarily wealthy enclave on the Joisy side of the Hudson (right up against the Palisades Pkwy). Go to Bing Maps and do a bird's eye view around the golf club area...many multi-million dollar properties on small acreage.

That said, the homes are extravagant to the point of being tacky IMO and this guy, as a real estate developer, should have known better than to overbuild in this market.

24 posted on 06/06/2010 5:09:12 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?)
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To: Frenchtown Dan

The super rich in Alpine aren’t interested in land, they are paying for an exclusive location in the Palisades near New York City. The super rich who want country estates live in Far Hills, New Jersey about 35 miles west of Manhattan. It’s just one multi million dollar estate after the other out there, it’s truly the landed gentry.


25 posted on 06/06/2010 5:10:34 AM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: SkyPilot

Right.

Ok. let’s say 70 bucks per sq. ft.
I think the article said 30,000 sq. ft.
So, that makes 2,100,000.

He must have gold plumbing in there.


26 posted on 06/06/2010 5:13:57 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: csvset

Me too.

For me, a house half the size on a hundred acres on a mountain lake.

Easily done for much less than 68 mil.


27 posted on 06/06/2010 5:16:43 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Domangart

Plenty of them around Alpine.


28 posted on 06/06/2010 5:17:36 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

It is very wealthy indeed.

I’ve driven through it many times. Many homes cannot be seen from the road, very private. Eddie Money lives there, along with many celebrities.


29 posted on 06/06/2010 5:20:29 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan
No matter how big it is are how much it cost, a man can only use one john at a time. The rest is wasted space.
30 posted on 06/06/2010 5:21:17 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: XRdsRev

Far Hills, Basking Ridge, Peapack/Gladstone, Bernardsville, Alexandria in Hunterdon county, and many others.

Yes, the list is a long one for Northern N.J.

And of course the many multimillion dollar homes on the Jersey Shore. Long Beach Island to Cape May.


31 posted on 06/06/2010 5:24:30 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: org.whodat

Yeah, but just imagine the parties!


32 posted on 06/06/2010 5:26:07 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan; All
BTW, you can see the house on Bing Maps Bird's Eye view (pic shows it still under construction, but it is a MONSTER).

It is located at the junction of Closter Dock Rd and Warren Lane in Alpine, NJ. The house doesn't appear in all Bird's Eye views and you'll have to zoom in and fiddle with the view direction to see the property.

33 posted on 06/06/2010 5:29:27 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?)
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To: Frenchtown Dan

It is a beautiful home. But it does look like a museum. Turn it into an assisted living house.


34 posted on 06/06/2010 5:31:48 AM PDT by timeflies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Sattelite views are a little scary.

I’m waiting to be arrested for peeing in the bushes at the back of my couple of acres.


35 posted on 06/06/2010 5:32:37 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: timeflies

Ha! Give it to Acorn?


36 posted on 06/06/2010 5:33:46 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan

No!


37 posted on 06/06/2010 5:35:19 AM PDT by timeflies
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To: timeflies

Ooops.
Didn’t ingest what you wrote properly. Confused Assisted Living with Low Income.

Sorry about that.


38 posted on 06/06/2010 5:35:39 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: Frenchtown Dan

lol...moon the satellite!


39 posted on 06/06/2010 5:37:39 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?)
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To: Frenchtown Dan

LOL My son already has plans for us and we are only in our mid 50s.


40 posted on 06/06/2010 5:39:47 AM PDT by timeflies
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