Must win lottery!!!!!

[gridlore]

http://www.601dolores.com/

I'd line the downstairs walls of the former chapel with bookshelves and lots of comfy chairs and tables, replace the main stained glass with panels of the Metal Gods, and bring in lots of movable panels or shoji screens so we could change the layout of the place for different needs. Since I've won the lottery here and am mad, I'd offer it to BASFA as a clubhouse and to any wandering fan as a place of refuge. Can you imagine the Thanksgiving Dinners That Couldn't Be Beat in this place! Can you imagine Halloween? (We'd fly the Transylvania flag from Rocky, of course.)

And it would go so well with the doublet I tried on at Baycon!

But what to call it? "Castle on the Park" is too New York (sorry to my NYC friends) for me. How about Caer Norton?

Want! Want! Want!

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[fusijui.livejournal.com]

I have to say, the exterior powerfully reminds me of what happens when a fire station rogers a train station (or perhaps a Victorian orphanage) without birth control.

But inside, pretty nice!! And isn't $7.5 mil pretty cheap for in-city real estate in San Francisco? I can't imagine something that size being much less up even here in the Emerald City. Heck, with a modestly-sized lottery win you could afford to retrofit a MOAT.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Want! (I noticed that, in the photos of the immediate neighborhood, there's a bookstore...)

However... they took out the pipe organ, so if I'd won the lottery and bought it, I'd need to have one installed. (Also more in the way of accessibility - a mini-elevator, and unobtrusive ramps - there's certainly enough space to do that. Oh, extra grab bars in the bathrooms, that sort of thing...)

'k, that's enough daydreaming... *wry*

[10binary-cats.livejournal.com]

You would need, at the very least, an Igor...

[caraig.livejournal.com]

There's, a, li-i-ight... (Over at the Berry pla-ace!)...

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Over on The List That Must Not Be Named, it was suggested that SFSFC purchase it as a clubhouse for Bay Area fandom. I noted that BASFA has enough to buy around 1/750th of it. Maybe one of the cupboards?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

With the spare change left over from buying the house, you can buy James Bond's Aston Martin (http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/james-bonds-aston-martin-db5-for-sale?imageNo=0).