The Journal House of the Week:
A Lavish 28-Room Colonial Estate

What: 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms in about 20,000 square feet on nearly eight acres.

Where: Hunting Valley, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb

Amenities: Ground-floor, 60-foot indoor swimming pool; tennis court, sauna and steam bath. Attached two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment and nine fireplaces. Oak wine cellar, servant’s quarters, seven-car garage.

Asking Price: $7.9 million

Opening Bid*: $7.1 million

Listing Agents: Monique Plociak, Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer Real Estate, 216-695-8688.

Due Diligence: Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, wealthy brothers and investors who developed the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, built this 28-room Colonial in 1927 and lived there with their families. Visitors to the home included John D. Rockefeller and his family and aviator Charles Lindbergh, according to the listing. Gordon Stouffer, whose family started Stouffer Foods, now part of Nestlé SA, later owned the house. The current owner, Sylvia Korey,a retired civil engineer who sits on the board of several Cleveland-area philanthropic organizations, bought the property 17 years ago and says she plans to move east to be closer to her four daughters when it sells. The main house has a two-story Colonial portico and a large living room with vaulted, beamed ceilings and three separate seating areas. The property has a four-bedroom, two-bathroom guest wing and a third-floor turret room. All of the house's flooring is made of white oak plank, marble or slate.

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