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This grand old home known as "Cobble Court" sits on 9 rolling acres. It has 9 bedrooms and 8 baths, and it's on the market for $8.7 million. It was built in 1933 to look like a French Norman country estate and definitely looks European. Surprisingly, though, it's not really French--it's right here in Ohio, just a few miles away from my house (no, we don't all live like this in the Buckeye State, I'm sorry to say).

I already showed you the grand staircase with the red carpet (Staircases That Would Make Scarlett Swoon). Now here, as promised, are pictures from the rest of the house.

To take a look inside this great estate, click "more" below:

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This looks like many of the rambling old homes we saw when we were in England a few years ago.

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Here's the hall (above) with a glimpse of the red staircase that you already saw here.

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This fireplace is almost as big as the one in Citizen Kane (another movie I should've added to my list of favorites in the post about Houses on the Big Screen).  Among other things, it says "Cobble Court 1933" in the stone.

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This great hall made my jaw drop. Who knew there were people living like this a few blocks from my humble abode?

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Here's the view of the other end of the hall. I love the bookshelves and balcony.

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And finally, here's the view from that balcony. Look at those floor-to-ceiling bookshelves! The whole place is pretty spectacular.

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For more information and to see more photos of Cobble Court, go to the MLS listing.

If you're in the mood for more fabulous house tours:

  • Check out the tour of Coco Chanel's 31 Rue Cambon Apartment and learn more about this fascinating woman's life in what has quickly become one of our most popular posts ever.
  • Peek inside a 1908 house in the Compton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis, boasting seven original fireplaces that are all beautiful and unique--including one in the master bath.
  • Take a look inside Mark Twain's Tiffany-decorated mansion in Hartford, Connecticut and see the billiards room where he wrote many of his classic novels, like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
  • Get a rare glimpse inside Frank Lloyd Wright's William P. Boswell house in Indian Hill, Ohio, which has never been publicly photographed before and is now on the market for $3.4 million.
  • Whether you saw the Oscar-nominated movie "Atonement" or not, you have to take a look inside Stokesay Court, the amazing private home in Shropshire, England where they filmed it.