Rockcliffe Mansion

Bedrooms: 10
Approximate square footage: 13500
Contact: Rick Rose
414-403-6286
rrose65@gmail.com
www.rockcliffemansion.com

New Unbelievable Listing Price

Unbelievable 13,500 sq.ft. home listed on the National Register of Historic Places built between 1898 and 1900 by lumber baron J.J. Cruikshank. The home is currently operated as a successful touring mansion, bed and breakfast and bistro/cabaret, however could make the perfect "dream house" beyond compare!

Over its three floors, cupola and garden level, the magnificent Greek Revival mansion features 30 gigantic rooms, double brick construction, original wallpapers from the turn-of-the-century, original one-of-a-kind Tiffany fixtures and windows installed by Mr. Tiffany himself, 10 carved Italian marble and tile fireplaces and only the finest quality walnut, oak and mahogany. Rockcliffe, named because of its spectacular limestone rock drive and location sitting above Mark Twain's Home Town of Hannibal, Missouri, has been featured as an American Castle on A&E and has been written upon extensively. It was also the location for a couple feature films. Excellent commercial property or one-of-a-kind home innovatively designed by the architectural firm of Barnett, Haynes and Barnett of St. Louis who also spearheaded the construction of the Missouri State Governor's Mansion in St. Louis and much of the architectural components of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis as well as the grand Cathedral of St. Louis, Missouri.

The home hosts the grand entry, a carriage entrance with covered porch, formal dining room, men's parlor, women's parlor, music room, bath/mud room and kitchen on the first floor along with two outdoor porches, one of which features special paladin windows. The second floor boasts a huge center area around which are located six extra large bedrooms (four with their own fireplaces, one made of Delft tile, the other featuring William Morris tile), three historic full bathrooms with original double lined tubs and vast Victorian ceramic sinks. Unique to the mansion are its many fine closets made of cedar found throughout the chamber rooms. New wiring and plumbing has allowed for a hidden laundry room on this floor.

The third floor, once the servants' quarters, is home to three large bedrooms with dramatic ceilings and windows, a clothing chamber, one fully restored bathroom with Italian ceramic tile (and the original room for another bathroom), a special classroom where the Cruikshank children were school including original wall maps and the beautifully restored Ballroom. This floor has been completely replastered and historically painted.

Above it all is the famous cupola from which the Mississippi River may be viewed along with the stars in the skies or fireworks from the Fourth of July. Off the cupola are a receiving room, two closets and a door, which opens onto the newly completed roof.

Below the mansion is a full garden level with another full kitchen, original wine cellar, produce cellar and several side rooms along with one central area and a bath/mudroom. The original fire buckets with half moon bases remain in the garden level symbolic of the home's attention to every detail and proof that this mansion is more solid than most new homes built today. Historically accurate, solid, functional and aesthetically brilliant...this home beckons a visit!