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4: The New Gosselin Home ("Jon & Kate Plus 8")
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This is the new home of the Gosselin family from "Jon & Kate Plus 8". According to public records, the couple bought the home for their large family on October 23rd, 2008, for $1.12 million. The 7,095 sq. ft. home features 6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, and almost 24 acres (23.88 to be exact) of land & a barn. It was built in 1997, and public records show the lot was sold in 1996 for $135,000.
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Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Georgian-style mansion in Elkins Park, Montgomery County. Considered the largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area, it was designed by Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener between 1897 and 1900 and housed one of the most important Gilded Age private art collections of European master pieces and decorative arts assembled by Widener and his son Joseph.
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Built in the late 1920's, it was originally a half mile dirt track for open wheel racing. In the 50's a smaller 1/4 mile track was created, replacing the half mile track, and stock cars replaced the open wheel racers.
In 1967, new owners completely rebuilt the facility with a new half mile dirt oval that hosted sprint car and stock car races. In 1987, the track was paved, and has since hosted special events for NASCAR modifieds, Hooters Cup stock cars, and ASA stock cars, along with their weekly program.
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The founder and chairman of Comcast-Spectacor owned this house in the past for serveral years.
Comcast-Spectacor is a Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the minor American Hockey League, the Wachovia Center, the Wachovia Spectrum.
Más sobre Ed Snider's house (former)27: Sidney Crosby's House (former)
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Current home of Pittsburgh Penguins captain and former NHL MVP Sidney Crosby. This custom-built New England farmhouse includes 4 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and an expansive wooded lot. A 25 minute drive to Downtown Pittsburgh. Crosby moved into this house in 2010.
Sold to Penguins president and CEO David Morehouse in 2011
Más sobre Sidney Crosby's House (former)30: Elm Court
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"Nestled among the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, stately Elm Court looks as though it were plucked up from the English Cotswolds and somehow transplanted to the town of Butler. A splendid essay in cut stone, leaded glass and ornamental ironwork, Elm Court is principally the work of Benno Jannsen, a Pittsburgh architect noted for his skill in this style of Tudor-Gothic."
Más sobre Elm Court35: Dikembe Mutombo's House
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The professional basketball player owns this home. He purchased the 5-bed, 7.5-bath, 10,900 sq ft home in August of 2001, from professional basketball player Theo Ratliffe, for $2.8M, according to public records. His other residence in Atlanta (GA) is also featured on this site. He also owns property in Maryland, Texas and New York City.
Más sobre Dikembe Mutombo's House36: Joe Paterno's house
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Joseph Vincent "Joe" Paterno (born December 21, 1926) is a former college football coach who was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 through November 9, 2011. Paterno, nicknamed "JoePa," holds the record for the most victories by an FBS football coach with 409 and is the only FBS coach to reach 400 victories. He coached five undefeated teams that won major bowl games and, in 2007, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. In conjunction with the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, he announced on November 9, 2011, that he intended to retire at the end of the 2011 football season, but was fired from his position by Penn State trustees later that night.
Más sobre Joe Paterno's house41: Allegheny Observatory
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The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, a part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.
The observatory is located four miles north of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Riverview Park. It was founded on February 15, 1859 in the city of Allegheny, Pennsylvania (incorporated into the city of Pittsburgh in 1907). The observatory's initial purpose was for general public education as opposed to research, but by 1867 the revenues derived from this had receded. The facility was then donated to the Western University of Pennsylvania, today's University of Pittsburgh.
On November 18, 1883, the first day of railroad standard time in North America, the Allegheny Observatory transmitted a signal on telegraph lines operated by railroads in Canada and the United States. The signal marked noon, Eastern Standard Time, and railroads across the continent synchronized their schedules based on this signal. The standard time that began on this day continues in North American use to this day.
Among other research purposes, the observatory presently searches for extrasolar planets. (Wikipedia)
Más sobre Allegheny Observatory44: Mysterious Toynbee Tile
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The Toynbee tiles (also called Toynbee plaques) are messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American capitals. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered. They are generally about the size of an American license plate, but sometimes considerably larger. They contain some variation on the following inscription:
TOYNBEE IDEA
IN KUBRICK'S 2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER.
Some of the more elaborate tiles also feature cryptic political statements or exhort readers to create and install similar tiles of their own. The material used for making the tiles was long a mystery, but evidence has emerged that they may be primarily made of layers of linoleum and asphalt crack-filling compound.
Articles about the tiles began appearing in the mid-1990s, though references may have started to appear in the mid-1980s.
Más sobre Mysterious Toynbee Tile47: Walter Annenberg's house
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This is Walter Annenberg's house in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
Walter H. Annenberg was an American billionaire publisher (The Philadelphia Inquirer), philanthropist, and diplomat (United Kingdom) ...
Walter Annenberg's Rancho Mirage estate:
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More info:
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Más sobre Walter Annenberg's house48: Elton Brand's House
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The professional basketball player lives here. He purchased the 5-bed, 9.5-bath, 8,992 sq ft mansion in September of 2008 for $3.35M, according to public records. This English Cotswold manor-style house was used in the 1990 shooting of the movie "Rocky V".
Más sobre Elton Brand's House49: Jeffrey P. Orleans's house
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The Chairman of the Board and CEO of Orleans Homebuilders owns this house.
Orleans Homebuilders, Inc. develops residential communities in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey counties surrounding Philadelphia, as well as in the metropolitan areas of Richmond, Virginia; Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina; and central Florida. The public company, trading on the American Stock Exchange, is majority-owned and operated by the third generation of the Orleans family.
Más sobre Jeffrey P. Orleans's house52: West portal to VP Cheney's hole in the ground
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Pictures here.
Site R is the Alternate Joint Communications Center (AJCC) located in Raven Rock mountain [hence the name Site R] just over the Pennsylvania State Line near Waynesboro, Pa. The DISA Site-R Computer Operations staff provides computer services to the NCA, the Joint Staff, the OSD and other DoD agencies through Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs). The facility functions as the disaster recovery site for the JSSC's GMC and DISA GCC. The various service [Army, Navy and Air Force] Emergency Operations Centers (AFEOC) are also located at Site R. Support is provided 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The facility's Operations Center, DCS Technical Control Facility, the Northeast Dial Service Assistance Center and Information Center provide planning, installation, operation, and maintenance of over 38 communications systems (switching, transmission, data distribution, visual information, and power generation) that support the various customers of the Alternate Joint Communications Center Site R.
Más sobre West portal to VP Cheney's hole in the ground62: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
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Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.
Fallingwater stands as one of Wright's greatest masterpieces both for its dynamism and for its integration with the striking natural surroundings. The extent of Wright's genius in integrating every detail of this design can only be hinted at in photographs. This organically designed private residence was intended to be a nature retreat for its owners. The house is well-known for its connection to the site: it is built on top of an active waterfall which flows beneath the house. The fireplace hearth in the living room is composed of boulders found on the site and upon which the house was built — one set of boulders which was left in place protrudes slightly through the living room floor. Wright had initially intended that these boulders would be cut flush with the floor, but this had been one of the Kaufmann family's favorite sunning spots, so Mr. Kaufmann insisted that it be left as it was. The stone floors are waxed, while the hearth is left plain, giving the impression of dry rocks protruding from a stream.
Integration with the setting extends even to small details. For example, where glass meets stone walls, there is no metal frame; rather, the glass is caulked directly to the stone. There are stairways directly down to the water. And in the "bridge" that connects the main house to the guest and servant building, a natural boulder drips water inside, which is then directed back out. Bedrooms are small, some even with low ceilings, perhaps to encourage people outward toward the open social areas, decks, and outdoors.
The active stream (which can be heard constantly throughout the house), immediate surroundings, and locally quarried stone walls and cantilevered terraces (resembling the nearby rock formations) are meant to be in harmony, in line with Wright's interest in making buildings that were more "organic" and which thus seemed to be more engaged with their surroundings. Although the waterfall can be heard throughout the house, it can't be seen without going outside. The design incorporates broad expanses of windows and the balconies are off main rooms giving a sense of the closeness of the surroundings. The experiential climax of visiting the house is an interior staircase leading down from the living room allowing direct access to the rushing stream beneath the house.
Wright's views of what would be the entry have been argued about; still, the door Wright considered the main door is tucked away in a corner and is rather small. Wright's idea of the grand facade for this house is from the perspective of all the famous pictures of the house, looking up from downstream, viewing the opposite corner from the main door.
On the hillside above the main house is a four-car carport (though the Kaufmanns had requested a garage), servants' quarters, and a guest bedroom. This attached outbuilding was built one year later using the same quality of materials and attention to detail as the main house. Just uphill from it is a small swimming pool, continually fed by a natural water, which then overflows to the river below.
Más sobre Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater66: Pat Croce's House
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The entrepreneur, sports team executive and owner, author and TV personality, lives here. He purchased the 6-bed, 9.5-bath, 10,625 sq ft home in November of 1993 for $2.35M, according to public records. He also owns a beach front home in Ocean City (NJ), amongst other properties.
Más sobre Pat Croce's House67: Rockview State Prison
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SCI Rockview (Centre County, five miles from Bellefonte) was begun in 1912 and opened in 1915. Originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries, it became instead the branch prison for Western Penitentiary, housing lesser security risk prisoners, most of whom were employed in Rockview's extensive farm program outside the gates. It now is a medium-security institution for men.
Más sobre Rockview State Prison68: Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
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Montage Mountain Amphitheater started as a temporary facility located behind the ski lodge on Montage Mountain. In 1999, Lackawanna County built a permanent amphitheater further down the mountain. The new location has reserved seating for 7,000 people covered by the pavilion roof, with room for another 10,500 on the lawn. In 2002 the operation of the facility was taken over by Clear Channel Communications and the building became known as the Ford Pavilion at Montage Mountain. In June of 2005, upon their first visit to Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Toyota Pavilion, the Dave Matthews Band became the first concert to ever completely sell out the pavilion attracting over 18,000 people. On their return in July of 2006, they once again sold out the pavilion. In 2006, the entertainment group splintered away from Clear Channel, becoming a new, independent, company, Live Nation, and the amphitheatre changed name again, this time to Toyota Pavilion on Montage Mountain. On February 15, 2007, the tent roof of the pavilion collapsed under the weight of snow and ice that had fallen from the Valentine's Day Blizzard of 2007. A new roof was completed in time for the summer 2007 concert season.
Más sobre Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain73: Wesley Snipes' temporary home
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Federal Correctional Institution McKean
Actor Wesley Snipes has begun serving his three-year prison sentence for failing to file income tax returns, after being denied his request to remain free during Christmas.
Although Snipes was hoping to spend the holidays with his family in Florida, the movie star reported to the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning, says Federal Prisons spokesman Ed Ross.
The minimum security prison in the northwest Pa. town of Lewis Run is a far cry from the ruthless lockups Snipes encountered in "Undisputed" and "Brooklyn's Finest." The facility does not even have a fence around its perimeter.
Más sobre Wesley Snipes' temporary home81: "F. U. FAA" House
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The home of Michael Hall, of Ridley Township, PA, who recently wrote an angry message to the FAA where only they can see it: on his roof. Recent flight route changes out of Philadelphia International Airport (q.v.), aircraft noise at his house has been unbearable.
The GMaps view is taken prior to the message being written.
Más sobre "F. U. FAA" House82: State Correction Institute (SCI) Pine Grove - Children's Prison
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SCI Pine Grove, located in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, is a maximum-security facility for Young Adult Offender males. The Young Adult Offender Program (YAOP) is primarily designed for those offenders between the ages of 15-20 adjudicated as adults due to the nature of the criminal offense committed. The YAOP meets their special needs of education, adolescent development and recreational activity, while providing a safe environment for those offenders.
Más sobre State Correction Institute (SCI) Pine Grove - Children's Prison97: Dick Vermeil's House
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The former professional football coach lives here at "The Ranch". He has made 2 Superbowl appearances, winning once (Rams 1999), and losing once (Eagles 1980). Some of his former Missouri real estate is also featured on this site.
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