"Le Chateau Renaissance", Lucas Estate (Carmel, Indiana)

USA / Indiana / Williams Creek / Carmel, Indiana / West 116th Street, 1143
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This house is presently owned by Forrest and Charlotte Lucas, founders and owners of Lucas Oil Products. It was originally built for Steven Hilbert, at the time CEO of Conseco. Hilbert was for a time the highest paid CEO in the country at $100 million a year. He was forced to move from this home after he was required to pay back $300 million to Conseco by the courts. Conseco took possession in 2006, it was sold to the Lucas family in 2010.

The 23,000-square-foot house and 40 acres of property. There are heroic murals, gilded wood molding on the ballroom ceiling and intricately carved banisters on a gigantic stairway, covered by navy carpet dotted by fleurs-de-lys.

The home's decoration blends English, French and neoclassical touches. The sports barn has a basketball court lined like Assembly Hall and decked with 11 red banners touting Indiana University's feats. It also features a lodgelike fireplace and bar, with a working gong hung from a boar's head mount.


Sources:
gis.hamiltoncounty.in.gov/FlexViewer/Index.html
www2.hamiltoncounty.in.gov/apps/reports/rpttaxhistory.a...www.lucasoil.com/articles1-4223/
www.indystar.com/article/20130617/BUSINESS/306170049/Jo...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conseco
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Coordinates:   39°57'14"N   86°10'36"W

Comments

  • This Home is actually over 25,000 sq feet on 3 floors. The fourth floor basement with entry is akin to that found in Long Island Castle Okhea, In indiana the basement sqftage is not counted. So really this house is well over 35,000 sq ft, then there is the entertainment barn which is around 30,000 sq feet. This house has the Guard/gate house which is well over 5,000 sq feet, the pool house which is also very large, and the spa house. I know from Lenard Watson that this estate has over 75,000 total sq feet between the home, the Sports barn, the spa, the pool house and the gate house.
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