This House Cray: The Estate and Lands of de Guigne in Hillsborough
Author:Lindsey ShookOriginally published on 7×7.com
Asking price: $100,000,000
Year built: 1914
Number of bedrooms: Seven
Number of bathrooms: Nine
Acreage of land: 47
It’s hard to find enormous parcels of land in the South Bay, especially ones so bucolically located in between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. The 16,000 square foot, Mediterranean-styled, Bliss and Faville (who also designed the St. Francis Hotel in SF) mansion is positioned on approximately 47 acres which have been owned for 150 years by one family–the de Guignes–and is one of the last remaining mansions of its kind in the state.
It boasts all the usual luxuries of houses like this, which you could only dream of lording over IRL; think a sweeping, grand ballroom, library, pavilion, flower-arranging room, and a gorgeous pool courtyard designed by landscape architect Thomas Church, which gives grandiose views of San Francisco and the East Bay. There was once so much staff at this estate, that it warranted six staff rooms to be built into a servants’ wing. And if you got a load of the driveway up to the front door (it’s 4500 feet long and lushly lined with trees), you’ll feel pretty important every time you come home from work.
However, there is one caveat.
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