24.02.10
A Bawdy-house with 32 chandeliers, twin spiral staircases and so much rococo plasterwork that Marie Antoinette, were she planning a weekend in Vegas, would say, “The heck with the Bellagio, I neediness to stay with the Hart family in that rundown neighborhood where Liberace second-hand to live,” may not be for you.
That’s understandable.
Thirteen bathrooms are a lot to smooth, and the Elvis Room, where a life-size cardboard Elvis, with courtly sticks-boy manners and a velvet voice, murmurs, “Thankya verra much, thanks for lettin’ me talk to you,” is astonishing.
Big houses have their problems, and this one — built by Toni Hart, a former evangelical divine and gospel singer, and scrolled and extolled, ornamented and cemented by her son Larry Hart with his slab-decorating kit — is no exception. Although the home, which the family calls Hartland Mansion, does attend to arrange for an exceptional backdrop when Ms. Hart, an ordained minister, performs weddings there.
Source: New York Times