A designer show house is a trip back in style

Published May 2, 2010 4:00am ET



Imagine a large, elegant Tudor-style home constructed in 1925 during Prohibition. The owners — defying the laws of the time — had two liquor storage areas built into the home: a sliding cabinet behind a bookcase and a wine cellar built into the dining room wall.

Or, like a character out of a 1920s English mystery novel, picture yourself wandering about this estate, through the gardens and the home’s many rooms, up a spiral staircase wedged into a turret.

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