MacKenzie-Childs' King Ferry estate
Aerial view of the MacKenzie-Childs estate, at 1671 Route 90 in King Ferry, with original decor contents.
A Christian Science lecturer and his wife now own the original home of the MacKenzie-Childs estate decor via Sotheby.
Chet Manchester said he and his wife, Anne Sutherland Early, had been looking for "a place of real beauty, artistry and a retreat."
And they found it!
They found it in the King Ferry estate where eclectic San Francisco-born artist Victoria Mackenzie ("I got the inspiration for my hair from a story by Steven Wright, my favourite comedian -- "long, flowing plaid hair") and Massachussets-born Richard Childs lived as from 1983 when they bought this gem and refurbished.
The 43-acre property, the house, a free-standing studio -- the first MacKenzie-Childs studio -- and a three-story carriage house, went on the market.
Between the buildings, there are seven bed rooms, four full baths and two half baths on the property at 1671 Route 90 in King Ferry (formerly called "Northville").
When the Victoria MacKenzie and husband Richard Childs put their King Ferry estate on the market, it made national news -- as it should!
The property was featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The New York Times, Huffington Post and Celebrity Real Estate Media.
The Post-Standard featured the estate as its "House of the Week" in 2011.
In October 2012, a celebrity in the film industry, whose name was not released because of a confidentiality agreement, had offered to buy the property and some original decor contents "in the vicinity of" the original asking price.
"The celebrity buyer had an option to purchase, but it did not come to fruition.
Then on March 29, Chet Manchester and his wife contacted Sotheby.
They, too, were interested in purchasing the Mackenzie-Childs property.
While the property was on the market, there were 109 showings and more than 250,000 hits on mackenziechildsestate.com.
Anyone interested in seeing the estate had to pre-qualify, showing they could afford a $1.1 million home.
Potential buyers flew in in their private planes to Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.
Others traveled by air to Hancock International Airport, where limousines picked them up and brought them to the property.
And some buyers were chartered on a floatplane, DeRosa said.
The interest was high.
A prince from Dubai contacted Sotheby's about the MacKenzie-Childs estate, and nearly two months ago someone from the Middle East put a back-up offer in.
The sale was finalized Dec. 20, 2013, when Chet Manchester and his wife closed on the estate.
The sale was recorded Friday in the Cayuga County Clerk's Office.
The Manchesters, who lived in Boston for about 20 years, was most recently living in St. Louis.
The Manchesters drove to their new home just before Christmas.
The sale includes:
-- the MacKenzie-Childs' 4,280-square-foot private residence.
-- an original artist studio
-- a 2,300-square-foot three-story carriage house with servant's quarters
-- a former retail gift shop (their big store was on Madison Avenue, New York).
-- the 43-acre grounds overlooking Cayuga Lake.
The original decor contents -- which have been never been seen publicly before -- were not included in the purchase.
They will be sold at a later date.
"I feel like this home sprung up from their soul as artists and designers," Manchester said. "We plan to carry on that spirit."
Chet Manchester said he manages the International Speakers Bureau for the Christian Science Church, which publishes the Christian Science Monitor.
Chet Manchester previously was president of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
He will continue to work with church, but he will do most of his work from his new home.
"We're hopefully not only going to live here, but create an inspirational retreat for anyone seeking spiritual, quiet and renewal," he said.
"The home itself is a piece of art."
Victoria MacKenzie and Richard Childs now work and live on the last remaining Ellis Island ferry boat, "Yankee," docked on the Hudson River in New York City.
Victoria MacKenzie and Richard Childs continue their art work.
Chet Manchester said he and his wife, Anne Sutherland Early, had been looking for "a place of real beauty, artistry and a retreat."
And they found it!
They found it in the King Ferry estate where eclectic San Francisco-born artist Victoria Mackenzie ("I got the inspiration for my hair from a story by Steven Wright, my favourite comedian -- "long, flowing plaid hair") and Massachussets-born Richard Childs lived as from 1983 when they bought this gem and refurbished.
The 43-acre property, the house, a free-standing studio -- the first MacKenzie-Childs studio -- and a three-story carriage house, went on the market.
Between the buildings, there are seven bed rooms, four full baths and two half baths on the property at 1671 Route 90 in King Ferry (formerly called "Northville").
When the Victoria MacKenzie and husband Richard Childs put their King Ferry estate on the market, it made national news -- as it should!
The property was featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The New York Times, Huffington Post and Celebrity Real Estate Media.
The Post-Standard featured the estate as its "House of the Week" in 2011.
In October 2012, a celebrity in the film industry, whose name was not released because of a confidentiality agreement, had offered to buy the property and some original decor contents "in the vicinity of" the original asking price.
"The celebrity buyer had an option to purchase, but it did not come to fruition.
Then on March 29, Chet Manchester and his wife contacted Sotheby.
They, too, were interested in purchasing the Mackenzie-Childs property.
While the property was on the market, there were 109 showings and more than 250,000 hits on mackenziechildsestate.com.
Anyone interested in seeing the estate had to pre-qualify, showing they could afford a $1.1 million home.
Potential buyers flew in in their private planes to Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.
Others traveled by air to Hancock International Airport, where limousines picked them up and brought them to the property.
And some buyers were chartered on a floatplane, DeRosa said.
The interest was high.
A prince from Dubai contacted Sotheby's about the MacKenzie-Childs estate, and nearly two months ago someone from the Middle East put a back-up offer in.
The sale was finalized Dec. 20, 2013, when Chet Manchester and his wife closed on the estate.
The sale was recorded Friday in the Cayuga County Clerk's Office.
The Manchesters, who lived in Boston for about 20 years, was most recently living in St. Louis.
The Manchesters drove to their new home just before Christmas.
The sale includes:
-- the MacKenzie-Childs' 4,280-square-foot private residence.
-- an original artist studio
-- a 2,300-square-foot three-story carriage house with servant's quarters
-- a former retail gift shop (their big store was on Madison Avenue, New York).
-- the 43-acre grounds overlooking Cayuga Lake.
The original decor contents -- which have been never been seen publicly before -- were not included in the purchase.
They will be sold at a later date.
"I feel like this home sprung up from their soul as artists and designers," Manchester said. "We plan to carry on that spirit."
Chet Manchester said he manages the International Speakers Bureau for the Christian Science Church, which publishes the Christian Science Monitor.
Chet Manchester previously was president of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
He will continue to work with church, but he will do most of his work from his new home.
"We're hopefully not only going to live here, but create an inspirational retreat for anyone seeking spiritual, quiet and renewal," he said.
"The home itself is a piece of art."
Victoria MacKenzie and Richard Childs now work and live on the last remaining Ellis Island ferry boat, "Yankee," docked on the Hudson River in New York City.
Victoria MacKenzie and Richard Childs continue their art work.
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Some liked it better when it was
"Brown's house down the lane"
That was before MacKenzie and Childs bought it in 1983.
Brown's house down the lane was a perfect example of the perfectly square, symmetrical, small country house.
There was a lot of work on it -- stripping walls down and exposing the beams and such.
Some remember when MacKenzie and Childs bought a chuck of Boyer Cottage -- formerly a lakeside building on the Wells College campus, where the "Guest Lodge" now stands -- for $1 and tacked it onto the south side of Brown's house down the lane.
For some, this sort of cut off the nice southern exposure Brown's house down the lane used to have.
The rest of Boyer Cottage, incidentally, went to a family named Ebert, who plopped it on an overlook of Cayuga Lake on Pumpkin Hill just south of Aurora.
Some wonder what Victoria MacKenzie and Richard Childs will do with the old Genoa Central School, which they also own, now they don't live in the area.
"Brown's house down the lane"
That was before MacKenzie and Childs bought it in 1983.
Brown's house down the lane was a perfect example of the perfectly square, symmetrical, small country house.
There was a lot of work on it -- stripping walls down and exposing the beams and such.
Some remember when MacKenzie and Childs bought a chuck of Boyer Cottage -- formerly a lakeside building on the Wells College campus, where the "Guest Lodge" now stands -- for $1 and tacked it onto the south side of Brown's house down the lane.
For some, this sort of cut off the nice southern exposure Brown's house down the lane used to have.
The rest of Boyer Cottage, incidentally, went to a family named Ebert, who plopped it on an overlook of Cayuga Lake on Pumpkin Hill just south of Aurora.
Some wonder what Victoria MacKenzie and Richard Childs will do with the old Genoa Central School, which they also own, now they don't live in the area.
The real story here, the nonsensical, euphoric "initial" asking prices that Sotheby's places on upstate New York listings.
This Mackenzie-Childs house went for a 40%+ discount from the original asking price.
Hmm...before someone goes out and pays $1 million for Sotheby's Tiandareh listing, perhaps he/she might conclude it, too, is only worth $500K.
Kudos to Sotheby's for securing the listings...shame on it...for attempting to gouge naive buyers...and...shame on the manager of it's Albany office 100+ miles away.
The buck stops with him/her.
This Mackenzie-Childs house went for a 40%+ discount from the original asking price.
Hmm...before someone goes out and pays $1 million for Sotheby's Tiandareh listing, perhaps he/she might conclude it, too, is only worth $500K.
Kudos to Sotheby's for securing the listings...shame on it...for attempting to gouge naive buyers...and...shame on the manager of it's Albany office 100+ miles away.
The buck stops with him/her.
Some call them, wrongly, "ceramic trinkets that cost pennies to make, and sell for $100 bucks a piece" will get you your own $1 million dollar estate. The thing is: how long can that last?
The abandoned Genoa school still standing in King Ferry.
It's kind of an intriguing place, only open for a relatively short period of time before it was closed due to consolidation, I suppose.
It's kind of an intriguing place, only open for a relatively short period of time before it was closed due to consolidation, I suppose.
Hey, that couple got a bargain.
That house with that amount of land plus the footage of the house alone was a steal, some think.
I can't believe that house didn't sell for more than that.
That house with that amount of land plus the footage of the house alone was a steal, some think.
I can't believe that house didn't sell for more than that.
Christian Science" has nothing to do with the Jesus of the Bible...
Jesus has plenty to say about false religion(s) in the Bible...check it out!
It references his name in connection to their teachingngs but totally misrepresents him as to who he was and is and what he came to do on the earth.
Jesus has plenty to say about false religion(s) in the Bible...check it out!
It references his name in connection to their teachingngs but totally misrepresents him as to who he was and is and what he came to do on the earth.
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