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🗓️ 5 June 2023
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0:00.0 | Let's go house hunting. |
0:04.0 | Let's say you're in Chicago, and you're looking around the area south of the magnificent |
0:09.2 | mile. |
0:10.2 | Eventually, you will end up in the Hyde Park neighborhood. |
0:14.0 | It's a pretty swanky spot. |
0:16.4 | The area has a lot of notable homes. |
0:18.7 | Some designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, President Obama has a residence there. |
0:23.3 | But one of the most opulent houses, the house that we want to look at, sits right near |
0:28.7 | the waterfront. |
0:30.5 | And construction on this beauty of a house began in 1928. |
0:35.3 | At the time, it cost half a million dollars to build, which would be many millions in |
0:39.4 | today's money. |
0:41.1 | Inside, the floors are made out of ivory and aloe bastard. |
0:45.8 | The rooms are encrusted with emeralds and diamonds. |
0:49.8 | Its real estate listing goes historic castle, includes library, chapel, and great hall. |
0:56.9 | The first thing you see is the garden. |
0:59.1 | It had a weeping willow tree. |
1:01.5 | It would weep real tears. |
1:03.6 | It would weep water. |
1:05.8 | The one thing they failed to put in the listing was the dimension of the house. |
1:12.0 | It is just under nine feet wide and nine feet tall. |
1:17.2 | Because this is a dollhouse. |
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