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Article: HOUSE PAPARAZZI; A mansion to swoon over; Price tag for house with fainting room not for the faint of heart
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2007
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Feeling lightheaded?
Need a place to park after hiking down the steps to the lakeshore
and back up through the woods just outside the living room windows
of the Field Mansion, 3432 N. Lake Drive?
Exhausted from skating around the oversized kitchen, with its
eight-burner stove, multiple sinks and dishwashers, and 40-odd
linear feet of black granite counter?
Overtaxed from summoning the help from the vintage intercom at
the second-floor landing?
Enter the fainting room and swoon at will.
Back in 1890, when Samuel Augustus Field built his mansion,
ladies would alight from carriages windswept with loose ends
fluttering, pass through the foyer with light filtering dimly
through the beveled-glass ...