Tasteful Friends, what say you to this 1928 Colonial Revival in Cincinnati?

Equal parts tastefulness and insanity.

My favorite detail? The male angel with the rolled-up paper shoved up his ass.

Could be great - the house itself is great. The interior design is really underwhelming, bland, and gloomy.

Big, sunny rooms, beautiful staircase. It’s too much, but it’s a nice house.

JD. Vance is really jumping the gun on listing his house.

Someone accidentally mixed in some photos from an ancient Spanish monastery.

This house hates beige furniture. I love that. Needs drapes - about $50,000 in drapes

I’d rent it out to unsuspecting groups of college students who have to face stupid choices.

I’d be the poolboy, the butler, and the maid.

Preliminaries: that particle board shit tile on the ceilings has to go. I get the library and the paneled smoking room.

It would need a TON of work and you’d still be in Cincinnati.

Who really needs that much house? What do you do with all the rooms you don't need?

R8 How do you know it needs a ton of work?

Once you'd brought it up to standard, think what it would cost to run the place each year.

R11 Do we really need this exact same comment on EVERY large property posted in Tasteful Friends? If you're too poor to heat/cool/mow the place, you're too poor to buy the place. You know it, we know it, everyone knows it. It doesn't need repeating every time.

Hey, R12, the world has you and that's way worse.

HA S NO ONE SEEN THE MALE ANGEL WITH THE SCROLL SHOVED UP HIS ASSHOLE?

R1

My exact thought! The more I scrolled, the more I bought into the nuttiness.

The first picture is very unflattering, though; it looks shabby.

Excellent find, OP.

At first glance it's a staid and unexceptional Golf Club Colonial Revival, but right at the front door there's q clue that it's something much better: that fantastic wire dog gate, a very large gauge screen door if you will. And inside some sophisticated tricks like the treatment of the stair in the entry hall and all the crazy Arts Club touches to show that it's something better and hopper than the usual Colonial Revival.

It would be great to see photos of the house and gardens as originally finished and fitted out. It's a house that must have had its share of turns as hosting the Garden Society fundraiser and Arts Club luncheons and parties, a house with a soundtrack of clinking ice cubes and crackling fires and shoe.leqther on garden paths.

I like the place a lot, for its quirkiness and the surprising contrast between expectation and delivery.

I can definitely see the Garden Society having tea in that one room with the naked male angel with the deed to the house (or whatever) shoved up his asshole. I think they'd admire the way in which he appears to be ready to bust his nut all over the tits of the naked female angel. Nothing screams upper-class society events more than a cement bukkake session.

I just wheeze-laughed

[quote] R8] How do you know it needs a ton of work?

The kitchen and baths are dated and depressing. That suggests underinvestment for quite some time. I’d want to remove the horrible “artistic” flourishes.

Is that octagonal room where they held sacrifices to Satan?

Plus I kind of have a weakness for white-washed brick. Very suburban, I know, but it was a look that impressed me when I was a small city kid looking longingly at big suburban houses in old movies and TV shows.

It's not in Cincinnati, it's outside the city, probably in Indian Hill (very upscale, large lots). The interior is too yellow and is mostly very nice, although there is some baronial kitsch.

I actually kind of like it. Such odd quirky details. Definitely more suited as a wedding facility though.

Front looks like Tara.

Not enough photos. The staging is bland but beyond that, a bit of paint and retiling is all it needs in the pictured rooms. Only 1 bathroom out of 10 is shown. Incredible guest house. Lovely grounds. The library! This is the epitome of gracious living.

Nice place but if I had $6 million to spend on a house it wouldn't be anywhere in the State of Ohio.

R25 Yes, but you wouldn't be able to get a house like this for $6 million anywhere better (at least in the US).

R25, just said "a house" not necessarily one as big with as much land. Could get a nice house in a lot of better cities.

Six-foot-high ceilings did not need "reviving," even in 1928.

R27: Where? You'd get some monstrosity in a flood zone, say in Houston.

The designer of the house was Confused.

It's definitely haunted

I'm going to have to assume after this that anything showing a man with something shoved up his ass is fine on DL.

Big NO. I actually kind of hate it.

I used to live in Kenwood, Ohio and I went to many parties at this house. Peter Frampton(!) was at one of them. The family that owned it were big supporters of the Western & Southern tennis tourney. I think the dad was a big time attorney.

This is a very cool house, although too big for my needs. The only downsides I can see are the low ceilings in many rooms, and yes it is a bit bland in parts..... but other parts make up for that. I love all the wild artistic touches, they really make this place into something special. Yes, there is some baronial kitsch, but that's in the guest house which is a weird mixture of that and Italianate. It kind of works though. The grounds are beautiful, although I'd imagine they would need constant upkeep.

I'd love to see a full set of floorplans for this and the guest house, just to try and make sense of it all, there is a definite element of confusion going on but in a rather pleasant way

Nice house, but all the ceilings are too low.

R28- The ceiling height is VERY low in many of the rooms.

MAJOR turnoff.

It looks like a larger version of Tara from GWTW.

One of the original builders (the wife) was from the Kroger family, now the largest supermarket chain in the country.

Too much for a monstrosity in Ohio. Sculpted angles fireplace-must see!

JFC - don't put shutters on casement windows!

Does Ohio have wildfires? Seems the only hope.

Spiral staircase in library-where does that go?

Wow....It's actually decent....that study is gorge. Surprisingly tastefully decorated too (for the most part) for Ohio....lots of windows, sunshine and greenery. To bad it's in Ohio.

R34 Nice to get some background on this property! But, tell us, were there any ritual sacrifices in that wacky rotunda?

Six milion to live in Cincinnati? Pass.

*Six million

13 acres.