AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - A 9-foot dollhouse valued at $8.5 million may be the priciest real estate per square foot on Earth
An 80-year-old New York psychologist wants to donate a miniature castle worth $329,000 per square foot to the White House, and nobody in Washington has said yes or no. Dr. Michael Freeman has spent roughly three decades as the owner of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle, a 9-foot-tall, 29-room structure packed with 10,000 handcrafted furnishings that […] The post A 9-foot dollhouse valued at $8.5 million may be the priciest real estate per square foot on Earth appeared first on American Almanac .
An 80-year-old New York psychologist wants to donate a miniature castle worth $329,000 per square foot to the White House, and nobody in Washington has said yes or no. Dr. Michael Freeman has spent roughly three decades as the owner of the Astolat Dollhouse Castle, a 9-foot-tall, 29-room structure packed with 10,000 handcrafted furnishings that the New York Post reports is valued at a minimum of $8.5 million. At just 25.8 square feet of floor space, that works out to roughly $329,000 per square foot, a figure that would dwarf the most expensive penthouses in Manhattan or London. Freeman, a PhD psychologist who lives in Kings Point on Long Island, now says he and his wife Lois are deciding what to do with the structure. His preference is…Open