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[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.carolinajournal.com/
2007-01-26

Carolina Journal Exclusives
Edwards Home County's Largest
By Don Carrington


RALEIGH - Presidential candidate John Edwards and his family recently moved into what county tax officials say is the most valuable home in Orange County. The house, which includes a recreational building attached to the main living quarters, also is probably the largest in the county.

The Edwards residential property will likely have the highest tax value in the county,- Orange County Tax Assessor John Smith told Carolina Journal. He estimated that the tax value will exceed $6 million when the facility is completed.

The rambling structure sits in the middle of a 102-acre estate on Old Greensboro Road west of Chapel Hill. The heavily wooded site and winding driveway ensure that the home is not visible from the road. "No Trespassing" signs discourage passersby from venturing past the gate.

Don Knight, Orange County building plans examiner, told CJ that, including the recreational building, the Edwardses' home would be one of the largest in Orange County.

Knight approved the building plans that showed the Edwards home totaling 28,200 square feet of connected space. The main house is 10,400 square feet and has two garages. The recreation building, a red, barn-like building containing 15,600 square feet, is connected to the house by a closed-in and roofed structure of varying widths and elevations that totals 2,200 square feet.

The main house is all on one level except for a 600-square-foot bedroom and bath area above the guest garage.

The recreation building contains a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a bedroom, kitchen, bathrooms, swimming pool, a four-story tower, and a room designated "John's Lounge."

Edwards was the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2004 and a former N.C. senator.

Thursday afternoon, the Edwards for President press office was unable to provide information on any additional buildings planned for the estate.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Who Gives A Shit? Jesus, Why Are Some Here So Obsessed With Meaningless Garbage?

[WindRavenX]

2. jealous, probably

I'm kinda saddened by these threads.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I don't know, why are some people so unbelievably rude???nt

[mondo joe]

9. What's rude is the obsession with how other people spend their own money.

Thanks for asking!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. What's Rude Is Your Sticking Your Nose Into His Dwelling As If It Actually Carries Any Relevance.

I find it to be amazingly petty.

He can own whatever damn size house he wants. I'm amazed sometimes at how ridiculous the nose lifters can be. Jesus friggin christ.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Pullleeeze. You would be the very freakin first person to trash

a Republican for the EXact freakin thing.

What I find amazingly petty is your preoccupation with other people and what they find interesting

Get your own life.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Stylin'.

Good for him.

[AlCzervik]

4. Dupe-same subject with almost 400 responses, many of them hilarious

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=48026&mesg_id=48026

[AspenRose]

6. He earned it and it's his own business.

eom

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. It's his money...

[teryang]

8. Did he cut down all those trees?

I hope he starts landscaping soon.

[izzie]

11. Point less but it is his money.

What a man lives in has always been a thing in this country. It points to the ego.