This is one of my favorite houses around. It's a little over a mile from me, along the Aqueduct Trail (which runs about 40 miles from the Croton Dam down into Manhattan) so, if you're in the area, you can take a nice stroll and snoop a bit.
Ignore, if you can, any thoughts of who would actually pay $40,000 a month to rent a house, and instead enjoy the photos - restoring this house is a life-time pet project of a noted historical preservationist, and it's magnificent.
The house was designed according to the principles espoused by Orson Squire Fowler, "a phrenologist, sexologist and amateur architect". Fowler was particularly noted for his study of phrenology, and it is said that this house, in fact, was designed as an architectural metaphor for the human skull. Curious now?
Take a look: http://www.williampitt.com/search/real- ... 1-1546098/
Chris
