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Article: How do you make a mega-mansion? Ask the Behrings Contra Costa County's largest home nearly 30,000 square feet
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- Oakland Tribune
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- July 14, 2006
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BLACKHAWK -- Looking west from Ken and Pat Behring's living room
window, Blackhawk's two golf courses and country club are visible. To
the north looms Mount Diablo.
"The views are spectacular," said Diane Gilfether, a Realtor with
the Blackhawk Real Estate Co. "They did an incredibly tasteful job on
it."
Perched on one of the highest points in Blackhawk and designed to
resemble Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" with an Asian flair, the
Behring estate approaches 30,000 square feet under roof when
servants' quarters and its two garages are included.
Until the mid-1980s, several years after the Blackhawk community
broke ground and the first homes started to appear, the Behrings
lived in ...