Given the opulence still on
display in the preserved homes of fellow lumber barons Charles H. Hackley and
Thomas Hume, we are left to wonder just how sumptuous was A.V. Mann’s more
durable brick mansion.
Adjusted for inflation, the
$20,000 it cost to build Mann’s mansion would equal at least $425,000 today.
The actual cost would likely be far higher if it were even possible to find the
materials and highly skilled craftsmen which built the original.
Built in 1889, eight yea… (View original article)