This is where we used to live...

[infinite monkey]

Back in my salad days I lived in a lot of apartments that were old servants quarters, due to my love of old buildings and such.

I didn't realize this place was for sale, but OMG you can see why I loved it.

The big mansion (on top of THe Hill) is beautiful. Bing Crosby's wife (Bing and Mrs Bing visited there back in the day) said if she could put that house on the ocean it'd be perfect.

If you scroll through the pictures, you will see a U shaped building. From the front, the apartment was on the left side. Another picture shows the door out the other side from the kitchen. In the middle were garages (complete with what was once state of the art wrought iron electric garage door openers.) The right side was the tack room (beautiful wood stables.)

You could go out the back and there were some old kennels (dogs had better housing than most people, as all the buildings were in the same style...you can see it in one of the pictures, but the dog runs are gone) and you could go down the hill to the lake. I had a canoe and could canoe from that lake, through some channels, through the park and the cemetary, and connect to about 4 other lakes. It just went on and on.

Oh, and out back you went through a big work area, that had a greenhouse attached. There was also HUGE attic (ran the length of the apartment and you could stand up in it) that was so nice you could fix it up and live in it. They don't make houses like that anymore. I can see from the photo that they've fixed up that greenhouse.

You can also see the gardener's cottage, which was adorable. They rent that out too.

One time the (then) wife's young adult son came home with a bunch of friends late at night, and were hanging around the pool house. We started chatting with them and J took us up to the roof of the mansion where you could see EVERYTHING in town!

It was big and spacious and private and beautiful and the rent was relatively cheap (they didn't want to make it really expensive and have people moving in and out) and we lived there five years. Why'd we move? We bought a house. Stupid. He has the house. I wouldn't want the house. But that apartment...

I would love to live there again. Check it out!

edit: also note the funky ballroom.

edit2: enlarging the kennel I see the fences are still there.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12...34949875_zpid/