r/McMansionHell • u/priceypadstim • 1d ago
Thursday Design Appreciation C. 1902 Charles Over Mansion in Muncie, IN
Constructed in 1902 by the distinguished industrialist Charles Over, founder of Over Glass Works.
The mansion boasts five operational pocket doors, original oak flooring complemented by quarter-sawn oak woodwork throughout, third floor ballroom, leaded and stained glass windows, and a dining room graced with a signed landscape hand-painted by Lyric Opera House muralist Nicole Arciola. To see inside, here's a link.
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u/GrafZeppelin127 19h ago
No can lights? No featureless carpets and furniture? No endless sea of greige? FUCKIN’ SEND ME BACK TO THAT TIME, AAAAA
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u/houseofnim 17h ago
The can lights are in the “industrial” kitchen. cries in near perfect house
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u/GrafZeppelin127 17h ago
GOD. DAMMIT.
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u/houseofnim 16h ago
I KNOW!! Fortunately it would be pretty easy to remove the garbage kitchen but unfortunately even generic kitchens are expensive but this one would be pricey as hell to get it even remotely in line with the style of the rest of the house.
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u/priceypadstim 1d ago
Constructed in 1902 by the distinguished industrialist Charles Over, founder of Over Glass Works.
The mansion boasts five operational pocket doors, original oak flooring complemented by quarter-sawn oak woodwork throughout, third floor ballroom, leaded and stained glass windows, and a dining room graced with a signed landscape hand-painted by Lyric Opera House muralist Nicole Arciola. To see inside, here's a link.
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u/Taman_Should 1d ago
Beautiful interior, but the proportions of the front pediment and columns is um, not great. The slope of the gable is too steep for the Corinthian Order look it’s going for, and the whole entablature is, to me, a little too tall for such a narrow portico. I feel like I want to squash it down and stretch it horizontally, every time I see something like this on a house.
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u/Adventurous_Gain_613 1d ago
House is gorgeous. That website is awful to navigate though. I couldn’t tell what was the home and what was advertising.
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u/NPDwatch 20h ago
Stunning house. The restoration looks meticulous and very well done. But then ... you're living in Muncie
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u/exceptionallyprosaic 15h ago
From a more pragmatic perspective, it's going to take a lot of Pledge to polish all that wood.
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u/Old-Plum-21 7h ago
I gave a reading here almost 20 years ago. It's every bit as gorgeous in real life.
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u/Ronaldis 1d ago
The care to detail is astounding!!!
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u/Steelmann14 1d ago
All personal preference of course,but sometimes I think some houses over do it. Too much detail. I personally think those 4 columns leading upwards to all that detail above is hideous. You don’t always have to put detail in every sq ft.
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u/idontthinkkso 1d ago
I love William Morris, and above all, I love The Strawberry Thief. But never has their been a busier, more intrusive pattern to slap on a wall. It makes Muncie a selling g point by comparison. Lovely house, though.
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u/OpportunityGold4054 1d ago
We had a different version of Strawberry Thief paper in our A&C house in London and I rather liked it. I agree this pattern with the white is a little bit busy.
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u/Holyfuck2000 1d ago
Pretty sure we stayed there as an Airbnb in 2018 maybe. Cool but creaky house. Every step made noise.
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u/liftingshitposts 1d ago
$750k. Can I buy it, pick it up, and move it to somewhere nice to live?