Collinwood Mansion in Pine hits the market for $3.5M

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Collinwood Mansion in Pine hits the market for $3.5M

This is an interesting "replica" of Seaview. It definitely departs from the actual house in so many ways - but it's certainly interesting...

[Josette]

Oh my goodness - Pine Township is one of our northern suburbs.  My initial reaction was to wonder Pine Township where, assuming there might be many others.  But when I got towards the end and it mentioned Allegheny County, WQED (our local PBS station) and then Pine-Richland schools, I realized this is actually here!!  I'll have to try to get to it someday.

[Josette]

In case anyone is interested, in the comments below the article the link is provided to the listing with a lot more pictures, lots of interiors.  One has a staircase, an upstairs railing, and a door to the left, just like the Collinwood of the original DS.

[Gothick]

It mentions a lot of other interesting details, including rooms that are copies of the rooms seen on TV of Stately Wayne Manor, complete with bat-poles that I think were stated to be fully functional... wild.

The owner produces videos for television including PBS and of course, people in the comments immediately assume he WORKS FOR PBS... reading comprehension has sunk to an extreme low in the era of the "information superhighway."

He actually sounds like somebody who might know Jim Pierson since it also mentions that there's a recording studio and he has produced recordings for a long list of 1960s and 1970s era recording stars. Pierson does that as well.

G.

[Gothick]

This story has a couple of interior shots of the mansion:

http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2019/11/collinwood-mansion-can-be-yours-for.html

The link in the newspaper story for the interior wouldn't open for me. I think my firewall thinks it's some kind of spam website.

G.

[Josette]

If the link already didn't work for you, I suppose a re-posting of it won't help, but just in case, and if anyone else wants it:  https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xVddJawJrav&mls=1

[Gothick]

Thanks, Josette. I was able to open the link on the office computer. After I looked at it, I realized that my home browser must be far too antiquated to handle the requirements of viewing that site (but after all, it is an ad for a "Haunt of the Very Rich," to recall an interesting old early 70s TV movie).

Best, G.

[Josette]

 

[Brandon Collins]

This is quite the house! I can't imagine actually living here though, wayyyy too much space. Imagine the time it would take to clean! Though, anyone who buys this house probably would have staff for that.

[dom]

They have one man to do the heavy work. And they do the rest themselves. 

[Josette]

They have one man to do the heavy work. And they do the rest themselves. 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

He actually sounds like somebody who might know Jim Pierson since it also mentions that there's a recording studio and he has produced recordings for a long list of 1960s and 1970s era recording stars. Pierson does that as well.

He does indeed know Pierson. I had no idea until this new article that the owner of the house is T.J. Lubinsky:

This $3.5 million mansion includes a replica of Bruce Wayne's study and so much more

That name may sound familiar because it has cropped up on the forum from time to time in association with various Pierson produced PBS My Music specials which generally air around pledge drive time. Pierson produces/Lubinsky produces and hosts.

The fact that he knows Pierson has me really wondering how he could have gotten some aspects of the house so wrong - and I'm not talking about places where he made deliberate additions but places where he made obvious omissions (like only two archways where there should be three)...

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Then we have this article:

Can we please talk about this ridiculous sprawling mansion in Gibsonia?