High-end homes built with classic designs

Sterling Hall Estate, Atlanta

Asking price: $10 million

Listing agent: Troy Stowe, Beacham & Co. Realtors, 404-890-7635

This European Rustic-style mansion mixes a classic brick-and-limestone finish on the outside with all sorts of modern conveniences on the inside, including a central vacuum system and a private elevator.

Built last year, the home has seven bedrooms, 12 fireplaces, a four-car attached garage and 14 full or half bathrooms. One-of-a-kind amenities include an outdoor grotto with a sunken hot tub and fireplace, and an eight-seat home theater modeled on Atlanta's landmark Fox Theatre.

A few houses down from the Georgia governor's mansion, the acre property also has a heated pool, manicured grounds and formal gardens.

Check out the listing here.

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Heartridge Estate, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Asking price: $9 million

Listing agent: Nicki LaPorta and Karen Chrystal, Ewing & Associates Sotheby's International Real Estate, 818-575-9915

This Queen Anne Victorian looks like something out of the 19th century but was built in 2002.

This home in the Santa Monica Mountains 10 miles west of Los Angeles has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms and plenty of old-fashioned touches, including a wraparound front veranda and a private gazebo. The home's wood-paneled study, claw-foot master bathroom tub and other old-style amenities give the house a 19^th-century feel. But it also has all sorts of 21^st-century accoutrements, including a Crestron whole-house audio-video-security system and five-zone heating and air conditioning.

The 20.5-acre gated estate's other amenities include a saltwater pool, a 10-seat home theater complete with a concession stand, popcorn maker and bar, and elaborate fruit and vegetable gardens. There's even a Queen Anne-style doghouse for your pooch, complete with a gabled roof, white-picket fence and window boxes adorned with flowers.

Click here to see the property's listing sheet.

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Heath Street home, Brookline, Mass.

Asking price: $5 million

Listing agent: Mona Wiener, Hammond Residential Real Estate, 617-872-1406

This home offers a classic Colonial look even though it was built this year. The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom house has plenty of old-school touches, including hardwood floors and three fireplaces. But it also has many modern amenities, such as a whole-house audio system, a three-car attached garage and a spa bathroom in the master bedroom suite.

Located on an acre lot in Boston's tony Brookline suburb, the house is about five miles from downtown Boston, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. You can see more details here.

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Ella Terrace home, Newport, R.I.

Asking price: $3.4 million

Listing agent: Melanie Delman and Robin Nicholson, Lila Delman Real Estate, 401-284-4820

This Shingle-style estate is so new that workers are still adding the finishing touches. It's on a half-acre lot just off of Ocean Avenue, the most exclusive address in Newport, R.I., long the Atlantic Ocean playground of choice for East Coast "old money" families.

Designed to fit in with Ocean Avenue's 19^th-century homes, this four-bedroom-suite, six-bathroom house features quarter-sawn oak floors, a wraparound porch and three Pennsylvania fieldstone fireplaces, including one that's outdoors.

But 21^st-century features also abound, including a whole-house Polk audio system and Carrier high-efficiency heating and air conditioning with special heat-recovery ventilation. The home is just steps from a private beach, open only to neighborhood residents.

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Unfinished resort property, Prospect, Ore.

Asking price: $815,000

Listing agent: J.J. Kramer, John L. Scott Real Estate, 541-840-2992

This 50-acre property near Oregon's Crater Lake National Park was supposed to be an eco-friendly resort but fell into foreclosure before completion. Now it's up for sale by the lender.

The parcel features a Queen Anne Victorian main house that's almost finished, as well as a semifinished Victorian guest house and a small cabin. All three sit atop the Rogue River Gorge near Lost Creek Lake, about 30 miles from the national park and 200 miles south of Portland.

The three-bedroom-suite, four-bathroom main house is an almost perfect replica of an 1896 Victorian designed by architect George Barber. Classic features include fireplaces, private balconies and a turret -- the big spire in the center of this photo. The home also boasts integrated concrete forms, radiant floor heating and other energy-efficient amenities.

The guest house has two unfinished bedroom suites, while the cabin offers 650 square feet of space. The parcel also includes 30 acres of irrigated farmland and its own diesel-powered generators, since there's no municipal electric service.

You can see a complete listing sheet here.

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