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Hot House Update:
Where Are They Now?
Great houses have a way of lingering on the mind. I get a lot of questions about homes that I’ve written about for Baltimore Fishbowl’s Hot House column, and I often wonder about them myself. Were they beautifully renovated? Successfully flipped? Did they get the asking price? Here, we revisit some of our favorites to see what’s happened to our old friends. See more pictures at baltimorefishbowl.com. BY CYNTHIA MCINTYRE
TYRCONNELL:
An Iconic Baltimore GCounty Estate
rand English Georgian-style country house, in stone with slate roof and copper trims.
Original structure, 1826, rebuilt in 1924. Ten bedrooms, nine full bath- rooms, eleven fireplaces, extraordinary millwork. Thirteen-foot ceilings, Lake Roland views, wine cellar, state-of-the-art systems. Architect-designed formal gar- dens, manicured lawns, plantings, tenant house, barn, extensive bluestone hard- 36 baltimorefishbowl.com
Update:
Tyrconnell,
then the home of the owners
of Radcliffe Jewelers, went on the market in February 2014 for $4,950,000. It sold in October 2014 for $3,275,777 to a family with five children. By many standards, the price was a steal.
scaping, emergency whole-house gen- erator, sophisticated security systems, elevator, central air. Twenty-two-acre property with private frontage on Lake Roland, stream, pond: $4,950,000
What: Tyrconnell means Land of Connal, the last kingdom of Ireland, ruled for over a thousand years by the O’Donnell family, and now referred to as County Donegal. It is a once-in-a-lifetime house, an iconic East Coast estate property that ranks with great American houses from Newport to Palm Beach. Owned and loved by generations of Baltimore’s most prominent and civic-minded fam- ilies, the original Georgian stone house was built in 1826 by John O’Donnell, captain in the East India Company and Baltimore merchant, whose statue stands in Canton. The magnificent gardens, designed by noted landscape architect Arthur Folsum Paul, were in- stalled in the late 1920s, inspired by the gardens at Villa d’Este on Lake Como. They have been beautifully maintained, and virtually every window in the house overlooks tall specimen trees, wide lawns, stonewalls, and terraces with
PHOTO BY JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS