Opulent N.J. Manse Takes Bids: Unreal Estate

A 47-foot long banquet-style dining room features a limestone fireplace and a soaring ceiling lit by four elaborate crystal chandeliers. French doors open onto a formal courtyard garden with a fountain.

The realtor's description boasts of intricately-laid hardwood floors, moved and installed from a Spanish galleon and a French chalet. The library floor, which is original to the house, was imported from Czechoslovakia.

There's also a swimming pool with a cabana and fireplace, a separate "gentlemen's retreat" with its own wine cellar, a barn with eight stalls and two caretaker apartments. Expansive, walled gardens have been restored to their original state.

Lorraine Hunt Kopacz, director of luxury marketing for Prominent Properties, says the mansion is "one of the preeminent and most desirable estates in the Northeast."

"It's definitely a unique property and we hope to find someone who understands and appreciates the historic elements of it," Laura Brady of Concierge Auctions says. "It has been restored to include not only the modern amenities that will make it very livable, but also to heighten the historical qualities that the property possesses."

-- Reported by Joe Mont in Boston.

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