Thread by @StevenTDennis

A rare #SundayNightZillow showdown:

Which mega-estate would you choose?

West Virginia on left v. Montana on right

Each sleeps >100!

Follow this thread and at the end you vote in a poll on which one you'd choose. 1/

FIRST up on the #SundayNightZillow showdown:

*494-acre* Wellsburg, West Virginia mega-estate!

🏰61BRs, 64BAs, 54K sf!

"Originally commissioned as a summer estate by Cpt. JJ Vandergrift with Gilded Age-era craftsmanship!"

<1 hr to Pittsburgh

Just $3.8M
zillow.com/homedetails/15…

So, it's a lot on the dark side on the interiors for my taste and needs some updating, but:
*Already has chapel for weddings, chapel-things
*27BRs are from a previously built "care home"
*A truly colossal number of acres. You could build a theme park here if you wanted.

Noodling: If 61 people each went in on a BR at $100K each, we could pool enough money ($6.1M) to both buy and renovate the property into a retreat from cray cray.

There does also appear to be a smokestack of some sort on the other side of the river, so I'd call that a drawback.

Next up: The Montana mega-retreat. #SundayNightZillow

This *insane* Heron, Montana retreat is bisected by a creek and is surrounded by mountains.

16BRs, 16BAs, sleeps 120, 35K sf, *160 acres*

*$3.5M*

✔️Chapel
✔️Dining hall
✔️Horse barn
✔️Sauna
✔️Pizza oven
✔️Rock quarry
✔️RV parking
zillow.com/homedetails/18…

A few more pics of the Heron, MT estate/resort/retreat: #SundayNightZillow

Now the moment of truth for this #SundayNightZillow showdown.

Which mega-estate would you choose?

The 500-acre, 61BR, 54K sf West Virginia mondo platter or the 160-acre, 16BR (sleeps 120), 35K sf Montana resort/retreat/estate?

Note: Vandergrift an associate of Rockefeller/Standard Oil:
"Burly, round-headed & bull-necked, was a man of infinite resource, president of numerous companies, a born organizer...a romantic figure, beginning life as a cabin boy..." later steamboat captain
familyrecord.us/fr/vandergriff…

Winner: Montana

Congrats to Big Sky Country