Conn. Home 20-Times Larger Than Average (50,900 square feet)

[The Straight Story]

Conn. Home 20-Times Larger Than Average

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The enormity of the house Arnold Chase is building on Avon Mountain isn't fully apparent from the outside, where only 17,000 square feet of it lies in plain view.

It's the two-level, 33,500-square-foot basement complex, complete with a 103-seat movie theater, ticket booth, concession stand, game room and music annex, that will make it New England's largest occupied single-family home.

At nearly 50,900 square feet, the Chase home will be slightly larger than billionaire Bill Gates' home in Washington, about 4,000 square feet smaller than the White House and 20 times larger than the average-size home in America.

The average U.S. home measures about 2,500 square feet—up from 1,995 square feet in 1988—according to the National Association of Home Builders. But while houses are getting bigger, rarely are they built as big as the new Chase house.

"What you're talking about is mega homes," said Gopal Ahluwalia, the home builders association's vice president for research. "There are few homes larger than 50,000 square feet."


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RCIAMO0&show_article=1&cat=0

[ClintonTyree]

1. Unfreakingbelievable.....

I don't think there's any question to which political party this asshole's allegiances belong to. That's obscene. :grr:

[JerseygirlCT]

11. Actually, his donations are fairly mixed, and seem to go to his

representatives in CT and FL.

He and his wife do a great deal of charity work in the area. It's absolutely a very wealthy family. Very. But they're not awful people. He created a haunted house for Halloween that ran for years, raising a lot of money for Juvenile Diabetes. And I mean, actually created. He's something of a techie, and would be the one in there, building.

Personally, I'm finding it hard to wrap my brains around living in a place that big, but... it's really too simple to just write them off as greedy awful Republicans.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. This appears to be the resurrection of the Gilded Age with rich folk who

want to live like Vanderbilts, Astors, and Goulds and have the palaces to announce to the world that they rule.

[DCKit]

3. I'm soooo there... just need some "political contribution's" to finalize the plans nt

[B Calm]

4. Big deal! Does it have an inside parking garage for 35 cars.

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[cgrindley]

5. What is wrong with this country?

I live in Connecticut. I have a 1300 square foot, 3 bedroom house. It's fine. I don't see why people need to live in their own private shopping malls.

[fed-up]

6. that sure could house a lot of homeless vets...........nt

[KoKo]

7. Might end up doing just that...The homes of the Gilded Age went vacant after

Stock Market crash and the Depression. You can tour them now for a fee in Newport RI and elsewhere. Others were just abandoned because no one could keep them up.

This big house would make a perfect place for homeless vets and I hope that one day it will be used to help people when this vain person loses their shirt in some hedge fund crash.

[seriousstan]

8. What kind of fool lives in such a large house? He probably thinks we should live green.

[MissB]

9. That's Al Gore's house, isn't it?

Very nice looking place.

[mithnanthy]

10. ummmm......

I believe that is John Edwards' house.