The NRA should by this house and make it a walk through museum or small conference center.
The John Browning Mansion – complete with turrets, dormers, grand staircases, amazing hardwood floors, original windows & moulding, new commercial-grade kitchen with corian counters, potential new baths for bed and breakfast use. A definite must see!
Ogden Utah – $374,900
Why oh why can’t my employer have a branch I can transfer to near there. It wasn’t too far out of our price range when we were buying.
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Droool. Property taxes of only $2400? Heaven!
You know, for a guy who designed such great guns, that is a sincerely ugly house. 🙂
Mr.Williamson,
I’m sure that the “ugly” factor you are referencing has more to do with the era in which the house was constructed than any design that may have been dictated by Mr. Browning. In this case, I’m guessing by the dark, heavy stone work and arched windows that it’s an 1890’s design (possibly slightly later), which would have put it squarely within the style popularized by H.H. Richardson, known as Richardsonian Romanesque, of that period. It’s pretty clear to me that Browning hired an architect who was either a toady or willing imitator of Richardson.
As with most architecture in this country, styles have been run around and made popular by ceratin cliques, only to be shunned a short time later by those same hordes. It’s often like current clothes fashion, what’s in one season is looking very dated in a year of two.
The house is a bit much for my taste, and I’d never own it, but it’s pretty representative of the period, FWIW.