Post by Mr. Hendrickson™ on Dec 1, 2003 9:39:18 GMT -5
Thursday, November 27, 2003
The Hart family poses in 1998 in front of the Hart mansion. In the wake of the deaths of Helen and Stu Hart, centre, the storied house has been put up for sale.
Stu Hart's daughter, Ellie Neidhart, holds her father's dog, Mr. Peabody, in the front library of the Hart mansion, which has been put up for sale.
For sale: Spacious red brick mansion with enough room for a family of wrestlers, featuring an expansive, well-used dungeon basement.
For $2 million, the Stu Hart mansion can be yours -- the famous Stampede Wrestling dynasty's family home is up for sale.
A family friend from ReMax, Gordon Stewart, is handling the sale.
Since the landmark home was listed last week, two interested buyers have come forward.
One buyer, a developer, is interested in building condos around it and intends to restore the house.
"The developer wants to do something really special with it. He wants to do something he can put his name on and be proud of," said Stewart.
Hart, who died Oct. 16, bought the 22-room, hilltop mansion on Broadcast Hill in the city's southwest in 1951 for $25,000.
The Harts made so many personal touches inside the house, it's like another family member, daughter Ellie Neidhart told the Herald last month.
Taxes, utilities and costs of maintaining the storied home are too steep for the remaining Harts to shoulder, family members say.
The decision to sell the house was not an easy one.
"It's quite an ordeal. I don't know whether or not it will be sold. But if it is, the family will have to roll with punch when it comes," said Nattie Neidhart, a Hart granddaughter and daughter of Ellie.
The successful buyer will have a treasure on their hands, but not without costs, she said.
"Just because it's in such a prime area, the land is so valuable, well it averages about $2 million and that doesn't include what they'd have to put into restoring it."
Famous guests have ducked their heads through the doorway of the 1905 home, the birthplace of Stampede Wrestling.
Mayor Dave Bronconnier says he's visited the house often.
"It would be great if someone would buy it and restore it. It's a grand structure with lots of history," he said.
The city honoured the home years ago with a plaque recognizing the historic structure and the history within its four walls -- the Hart family itself.
The impressive house has six bedrooms, an enormous living room, dining room and library, four fireplaces and lead glass windows to take in the city view from the Prominence Point neighbourhood.
Its five chandeliers once dangled in Edmonton's historic Hotel Macdonald.
Although the house has never been significantly remodelled, Stu added elegant oak and mahogany panelling on the walls of the main floor. Pine lines the dungeon's walls.
Stu and his wife Helen, who died in 2001, raised their 12 children in the three-storey home, which sits on a 2 1/2-acre plot of land once roamed by a menagerie of cats and dogs.
In 1988, the house was conditionally sold to DreamView Retirement consultants, who proposed an apartment-condominium complex for the house and property. The deal fell through and 435 Patina Pl. S.W. remained in the Hart name.
The family house was originally built by businessman Edward Henry Crandell, and was converted into the Soldiers' Children's Home for 60 orphaned and convalescing children in 1920. Judge Henry Stuart Patterson bought the home from the Crandells and years later sold it to the Harts.
Last month, the Hart children entertained the idea of having the house designated an historical site or library.
The wrestling treasures inside and the home's famous family and guests would make it a fine museum, some siblings said.
The house's listing can be viewed online at mls.ca.
The Hart family poses in 1998 in front of the Hart mansion. In the wake of the deaths of Helen and Stu Hart, centre, the storied house has been put up for sale.
Stu Hart's daughter, Ellie Neidhart, holds her father's dog, Mr. Peabody, in the front library of the Hart mansion, which has been put up for sale.
For sale: Spacious red brick mansion with enough room for a family of wrestlers, featuring an expansive, well-used dungeon basement.
For $2 million, the Stu Hart mansion can be yours -- the famous Stampede Wrestling dynasty's family home is up for sale.
A family friend from ReMax, Gordon Stewart, is handling the sale.
Since the landmark home was listed last week, two interested buyers have come forward.
One buyer, a developer, is interested in building condos around it and intends to restore the house.
"The developer wants to do something really special with it. He wants to do something he can put his name on and be proud of," said Stewart.
Hart, who died Oct. 16, bought the 22-room, hilltop mansion on Broadcast Hill in the city's southwest in 1951 for $25,000.
The Harts made so many personal touches inside the house, it's like another family member, daughter Ellie Neidhart told the Herald last month.
Taxes, utilities and costs of maintaining the storied home are too steep for the remaining Harts to shoulder, family members say.
The decision to sell the house was not an easy one.
"It's quite an ordeal. I don't know whether or not it will be sold. But if it is, the family will have to roll with punch when it comes," said Nattie Neidhart, a Hart granddaughter and daughter of Ellie.
The successful buyer will have a treasure on their hands, but not without costs, she said.
"Just because it's in such a prime area, the land is so valuable, well it averages about $2 million and that doesn't include what they'd have to put into restoring it."
Famous guests have ducked their heads through the doorway of the 1905 home, the birthplace of Stampede Wrestling.
Mayor Dave Bronconnier says he's visited the house often.
"It would be great if someone would buy it and restore it. It's a grand structure with lots of history," he said.
The city honoured the home years ago with a plaque recognizing the historic structure and the history within its four walls -- the Hart family itself.
The impressive house has six bedrooms, an enormous living room, dining room and library, four fireplaces and lead glass windows to take in the city view from the Prominence Point neighbourhood.
Its five chandeliers once dangled in Edmonton's historic Hotel Macdonald.
Although the house has never been significantly remodelled, Stu added elegant oak and mahogany panelling on the walls of the main floor. Pine lines the dungeon's walls.
Stu and his wife Helen, who died in 2001, raised their 12 children in the three-storey home, which sits on a 2 1/2-acre plot of land once roamed by a menagerie of cats and dogs.
In 1988, the house was conditionally sold to DreamView Retirement consultants, who proposed an apartment-condominium complex for the house and property. The deal fell through and 435 Patina Pl. S.W. remained in the Hart name.
The family house was originally built by businessman Edward Henry Crandell, and was converted into the Soldiers' Children's Home for 60 orphaned and convalescing children in 1920. Judge Henry Stuart Patterson bought the home from the Crandells and years later sold it to the Harts.
Last month, the Hart children entertained the idea of having the house designated an historical site or library.
The wrestling treasures inside and the home's famous family and guests would make it a fine museum, some siblings said.
The house's listing can be viewed online at mls.ca.