The BBC purchased a beautiful wreck of a terrace home (79, The Grove, Ealing) and gradually converted it into a neat modern abode with DIY-God Barry Bucknell as a suave and skillful master of ceremonies. Bucknell allowed six months to convert the run-down property into two contemporary apartments. He also incorporated many modern features such as indoor bathrooms, glass doors, and balconies.
Barry Bucknell died in 1992 at the age of 48 after falling off a ladder while working on a new project.
His body was found in his apartment by his girlfriend who had not seen him for several days. An autopsy revealed that he had cocaine in his system at the time of his death. His wife did not file for divorce until after his death so they were still married when he passed away.
Bucknell is famous for designing luxury apartments all over the world including apartments in London, New York, and Paris. The Grove in Ealing is one of them.
The home had been destroyed, but Mathis was determined to rebuild. It's his first and only home. It was notably remarkable for the indoor pool beneath a glass canopy, which served as the entrance. "The only thing keeping the house from being finished is the glass roof," he explained. "But even that isn't stopping me."
Mathis lived in this house until his death in 1991 at age 60. He is buried next to his wife in California's Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
In case you were wondering: Yes, this home is still for sale.
It goes without saying that purchasing such a grand residence would be out of reach for most people. But if you do happen to have some money lying around, then you should consider buying this house. The price is reasonable (it's estimated to be worth about $8 million), and it would make for a stunning home.
Of course, the fact that Johnny Mathis wanted to build himself a new home shows that he must have been satisfied with how his old one turned out. So if you're thinking about building yourself a dream home, go for it! Just make sure that you can afford it.
After Rutherford B. Hayes moved there, he extended the mansion by adding five extra rooms and the wide staircase that stretched all the way up to the fourth level in 1880. Six more rooms were added to the home in 1889, giving it its present look. The mansion was donated to the city of Columbus as a museum in 1931.
Rutherford B. Hayes lived in Columbus from 1877 to 1880 while he worked at the Ohio State Penitentiary before becoming president. During his time here, he built this house for himself and his wife, Lucy Hayes. They had two children together who survived past infancy: a son named James Earl "Jim" Hayes, who was nine when his father was elected president; and a daughter named Louise Rosemary "Loulie" Hayes, who was seven. Loulie died in 1882 when she was only three years old. After they divorced in 1884, Rutherford B. Hayes married Mary Ellen Collins a year later. She died in 1892 after only six years of marriage. He then married Nora Brownley in 1896. They had one child together who lived past infancy: a son named Donald James "Don" Hayes.
Hayes was elected president in 1877 after serving as governor of Ohio for eight years. During his time as president, he helped end the American Indian Wars by negotiating treaties with several tribes.
1851 inside view of the Crystal Palace. Paxton, who was already a well-known gardener at the time, experimented extensively with glasshouse construction. Paxton invented the "ridge-and-furrow" roof design by combining prefabricated cast iron, laminated wood, and standard-sized glass sheets. The ridge and furrow system allows water to run off the roof while keeping the greenhouse warm in cold climates and preventing heat loss in hot climates.
Joseph Paxton built eight other glasshouses for various clients between 1816 and 1851, but this one is considered his masterpiece. It has been estimated that this greenhouse cost £10,000 ($150,000 today) at the time it was built. The client was Prince Albert, who had married Queen Victoria a few years earlier. The palace was designed as a winter garden and contained trees, shrubs, flowers, and herbs from all over the world. It is said that Paxton used as much glass in its walls as possible because he wanted the palace to be as transparent as possible so people could see what lived within it even during daylight hours.
Inside the palace there were three floors with an indoor garden on each floor. On the first floor there were bamboo houses where plants came from around the world were grown for the royal household. These included a Chinese house, a Japanese house, and a South American house. On the second floor there were cages where animals from around the world were kept.
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