Cassaro

Cordier Auctions/Vince Cassaro Michael Strickland of Addison Wolfe Real Estate appreciates the house's historic integrity but he says the market is tough.

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Cordier Auctions/Vince Cassaro They carefully preserved details like the hand-carved moldings, the Southern pine floors, the original doors, the eight fireplaces and the hand-blown glass in the windows while putting in central heating, air-conditioning and redoing the kitchen and baths.

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Cordier Auctions/Vince Cassaro The Hendersons have downsized to a 2,200-square-foot house in Pennsylvania and plan to spend winters in Florida so that they can play golf.

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Photos: Pennsylvania Estate Cordier Auctions/Vince Cassaro Owners say the stone wall in front of the house, pictured here, dates to 1780.

Iron Forge Then, Big Estate Now Sarah Tilton 2011

Cordier Auctions/Vince Cassaro Retired health-care executive Chip Henderson and his wife, Vonnie, bought this roughly 8,000-square-foot house on 49 acres in Womelsdorf, Pa., for $360,000 in 1993.

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Cordier Auctions/Vince Cassaro The property includes seven outbuildings.

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Up the Cassaro, or street of the palace, and out through the massive gate-way of that curious old Sicilian city, -- half Saracen, half Norman in its looks and life, -- a small company of horsemen rode rapidly westward to where the square yellow towers of La Zisa rose above its orange groves.

Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

Next night I broke the bank held by the Prince the Cassaro, a pleasant and rich nobleman, who asked me to give him revenge, and invited me to supper at his pretty house at Posilipo, where he lived with a virtuosa of whom he had become amorous at Palermo.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

Next night I broke the bank held by the Prince the Cassaro, a pleasant and rich nobleman, who asked me to give him revenge, and invited me to supper at his pretty house at Posilipo, where he lived with a virtuosa of whom he had become amorous at Palermo.

The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

Next night I broke the bank held by the Prince the Cassaro, a pleasant and rich nobleman, who asked me to give him revenge, and invited me to supper at his pretty house at Posilipo, where he lived with a virtuosa of whom he had become amorous at Palermo.

Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 18: Return to Naples Giacomo Casanova 1761