That’s the funicular that leads to the slopes. Let’s tour the estate. (Listing photo)
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December 17, 2015.
We’re serious. Up to 1,600 wine bottles are stored in a 56-foot-long tunnel or “mine shaft” in the basement. There’s an antique ore cart on tracks, and lights are computerized to flicker like a lantern, listing agent T.D. Smith told Zillow. Sound effects like creaking wood and dripping water are piped in.
The wine shaft isn’t the only feature that pays homage to mining. An old-timey funicular can carry four people up to the nearby Sundance ski slope. Installation cost $240,000, according to the L.A. Times – about the same as most people’s entire homes. The ride lasts about a minute.
The home also has an observation deck with fire pit, 35 feet above ground, installed for a reported $140,000 and accessed by a walkway that sways in the trees. A helicopter had to fly in the tower, according to Zillow.
The five-bedroom, 6.5-bathroom property also has a seven-person hot tub with glass walls that open into the forest; six decks; an exercise spa with sauna (and the hot tub); a game room with wet bar and pool table; a guest house; and a glassed-in tower with views of the San Sophia Range.
Tech entrepreneur Bob Wall had the house custom-built in 2001, and he naturally stuffing the mansion with smart features. Most of the home’s systems are remote-controlled or automated.
Case in point: The driveway has sensors that detect when someone pulls up to the house, and it’s equipped with a radiant heat system to keep the snow from piling up.
And when Oprah’s ready to take a bath in her $70,000 limestone tub, she doesn’t have to worry about the water getting cold—a system maintains the heat. Wall even hacked the Finnish sauna for hotter, longer steams, the Times says.
Winfrey must have liked what Wall – a collector of African art – did with the place, because she paid $14 million for the 8,700-square-foot property fully furnished. That was a little more than the most recent asking price of $13.75 million, though the home had once asked $15 million.
The home is located on—again, we’re being serious here—Butch Cassidy Drive, on the slope side of Mountain Village. The town is connected to historic Telluride by road, Zillow says, but many people prefer to take a gondola instead.
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