This castle-like mansion, dubbed Bloomfield Place, is located at 1202 Delong Place in Lexington, KY and belongs to Alan and Irene Bloomfield. Alan is the former owner of Galls Inc., an equipment-supply business for police and fire departments, federal agents and emergency medical teams. At 24,252 square feet, the mansion is the largest single family home ever built in Fayette County. The planning of the home began in 1997 and finished construction in 2000. Situated on 11 acres of pristine property, the home was built entirely of Indiana limestone. It boasts 5 bedrooms, 5 full and 5 half baths, 80 foot entry hall with massive windows, motor court, 900 square foot kitchen with 12 foot ceilings, library, great room, elevator, gym, 3rd floor game room and home theater, and much more. There are also 2 wings on either side of the home. One houses a 3-car garage and the other contains Alan’s 2-story home office. Bloomfield Place is listed at $6,500,000, which is quite the steal if you ask me. The couple are moving because they said it’s time to “downsize”. Hmmm…where have we heard that before?? Oh yeah, that’s right…… Alan and Shirley Goldfield with their hotel sized home dubbed “Champ d’Or”!! The funny thing about this is that the husbands’ names are both Alan and both of their last names end in “field”. So, what do you guys think??
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the house is really nice, but I would be terrified to live here. it looks like the perfect setting for a horror movie about a haunted house.
haha, it kind of does.
would be a perfect house if it was located in Alpine/Saddle River, NJ, or Greenwich/New Canaan, CT, where all the old money mansions are
Yeah, I could definitely see this home in Greenwich.
There’s really no reason for being so mean-spirited. As for the lack of elegance in Kentucky… Have you ever been to Lexington? Have you ever visited Calumet or any of the numerous and legendary horse farms of this area. The countryside surrounding Lexington could pass for the rolling green hills that surround Paris, France. In fact, it has doubled for the French countryside in several well known films.
There is old money in Kentucky, my friend. There are fortunes in Kentucky that were begun when Kentucky was but part of the Virginia Colony. The state is liberally peppered with Georgian, Greek Revival, and Italianate mansions that would make your head spin.
‘just seems like they’re trying to place fake elegance in a place where there is none.’
I disagree, I think they did a very good job with the design and it feels 100% legitimate.
Nalin, so would I! It would be kinda fun to live on edge all the time though haha.
Hey You Guys………While it’s far from my persona favorite style of architecture, I agree with those who said that this house is done VERY well, and very true to it’s strict Enlgish Tudor style. I grew up in Grosse Pointe Michigan, were there were a LOT of historic and true mansions (8/10/12/14 bedrooms, with full-time, live in staffs of 10 or more) like this one. This place is ULTRA specifiic though, and you HAVE TO ADORE textbook correct English Tudor style through every inch of the house obviously. This place was built to IMPRESS, on a SERIOUSLY GRAND & FORMAL scale, 24/7, 365.
And I agree with you Kenny, that it needs to be in Conneticut/Boston or another similar, old money, historic state & area, for sure. One thing I’ll NEVER understand, though……in THIS all too screwed up day & age, WHY on EARTH would ANYone ever build a house THIS incomprehensibly HUGE?!? Talk about a WASTE! I mean, these sellers are gonna’ get DISEMBOWELED on the final sale price, if it EVER sells. Such hubris is permanetly beyond my ability to comprehend. SUPER big, yes….maybe even to the point of having an extra thousand or fifteen-hundred square feet that you’d never use…..but TWENTY-FOUR-THOUSAND-TWO-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY-TWO SQUARE FEET?!?! GOOD LUCK Bloomfields…..they’re gonna’ NEED it, and a truckload of miracles to sell that place today.
My question is just where do the get the sq ft number. Is it just living space on two floors or does it include the garage, the basement, the the attic, a guest house, a gazebo, a barn, a storage shed,etc, etc, or as in some cases a guest house they plan to build.
The square foot number would be living space above ground… if its a finished attic with certain height clearance it canbe included in the sq ft. No garage, basements, gazebos, barns, porches, storage sheds, etc… are not in square footage.
Not necessarily…Perhaps it’s just screwy Florida, but down here 99.7% of advertised square-footage includes the garage, porches, covered balconies, etc. Basically anything with a foundation and a roof is included.
I would guess this house is 24,000 just from the house alone. Unless there are a lot of 2 story ceilings on the first floor rooms, (looks like just the living room and foyer from the pics) I can definitely see 12,000 SF on each floor–that house is freaking massive. Not my favorite style, but very well done and the finish out is very high end without being completely over the top.
At this price it should sell. 24,000 square feet would cost you three times that in most cities.
wow I love it! beautiful estate
Also, 6.5million is nothing (in comparison of course to other estates that size)! You only have to be worth like 20-30 million to own this, which is well within reach for major sport stars etc. I think it will sell
It makes me happy to see some people still have good taste!
The exterior is possibly the most frightening I have ever seen.When you look at it,
you can feel repulsion and horror feelings.Somehow it looks like the house it’s bulletproof (lol).I think that it would be better if this estate was located in CT.
The interior needs some kind of renovation:The majority of the furnishings are old looking, thus they need to be changed with the first chance.The rooms are designed nice, but with the particular interior I’m not a fan.And that green dining room is very ugly.
Maybe the interior plays more impartant role than we can think with regards to the low price…
Well the wife died recently so her living space has certainly down sized.
Where do the slaves sleep?
Yeh you make a good point Barney. But still 6.5m seems kind of a good price for a home that large, and I’m sure there are several rich people in Kentucky who might be interested in owning something like this. I’d actually be surprised if it lingers on the market for ages. However, as always, I think it also depends on how flexible the owners are, if they are willing to accept lower offers (maybe in the mid 5m range etc)