Love the home Brent. For me, as an European living in America (in a historical home); this house actually looks extremely American. It’s a blend of a lot of different styles, materials and techniques. Which for me defines this country. Honestly, I like that. I love it when things are not just “period”. But based on the taste of the owners, who draw inspiration from multiple areas

Thank you for showing this house. Those giant windows cut in to the columns are so modern, and yet they fit the ethos of the house. Really remarkable. This combining modernism with traditional design blows my mind! Wow!

Wow! Built in the 70's! And they had the foresight to evade the trends of avocado green and harvest gold!

I actually remember that mansion! My parents used to love to drive down Lake Shore Drive when I was a little girl in the 1960's. Of course, I never saw any of the interior until now--wow!! I'm glad someone was able to salvage all that beauty, and I'm glad you and your company are the ones entrusted with the repairs and upkeep.

Mr. Hull, thank you for sharing this magnificent home! Unbelievable, that it was built in the 70's all the more reason to be amazed and relieved that it can still be done, but only with people with your knowledge and appreciation! Thank you!

Brent, what a great project for you and your team. So glad the owners purchased much of the rooms’ paneling from Anna Dodge’s Rose Terrace mansion in Gross Pointe. The carved French panels were from the dining room at Rose Terrace. I’ve seen them in a TV program from 1971, made before the house was torn down in 1976?

Your building and restoration skills are second to none. You're knowledgeable of historical USA and the craftsmanship that went into construction. Our great great aunt had a beautiful historical home in the deep South. How we regret the selling of the property. Your videos are hope for a lost art. Thankfully hired you to restore the property. Would be sad to see a handyman even looking at this property 😳 Outstanding craftsmanship by you. God bless 🙏

Glad to see rich people spending their money right. Not those hideous modern geometric homes. This guy has tastes. Yall are lucky to work on it, they chose the best.

Someone loved the work of Richard Morris Hunt.

Fantastic house and beautifully furnished as well. Thanks for sharing.

Lol. I was chuckling about the bicycle under that gorgeous phenomenal staircase!!! Thinking they probably need it to get around the inside of the house with how large it is. Hahahahaha

Astonishing. The canon was probably at its nadir worldwide in 1970. I think Robert Stern was doing PoMo in 1970. I want to know the story behind the story. How many people have their fingerprints on this house? How and why did they become so insightful about design and quality? They were on a whole different level. Did they do other work of the same quality? Reminds me of the "Beverly Hillbillies" house that Lachlan Mmurdoch recently purchased, except that house was built way earlier, when design/build was way better.🙂🙂 You are one of the very few people around who can do right by this house. Julia Morgan could have done it, but of course, she is long gone.

Taste is personal whilst skill is universal. My admiration therefore is for the owner to want to spend a lot of money to get the level of quality that they wanted. In the UK, amongst the plethora of semi skilled builders, there are truly gifted artisans who can deliver the highest quality of buildings and interiors. In my experience, their day rate is not much more than the semi skilled but they take longer to do a certain job because quality doesn’t come quickly. The 2 lessons I take from every time I see a true craftsman working is patience and thought. They don’t rush anything just to get a job done and they spend a lot of time just thinking about how they are going to tackle the next element

You're obviously so excited. It's like watching a kid in a candy shop. Good stuff.

Had to rewind to the coped stair and look at the glass detail on the column. Did a house where the glass was derailed to the columns, maybe 30-40 had glass up to them and the glass was right at the surface through every detail top to bottom. An 1/16 -1/8" tape between the glass and stone. Gotta love coped stone stairs that flair at the bottom.

One beautiful home. Thanks for sharing this fantastic video. God bless 🙏👌🙏👌

Thanks Brett. I appreciate what you do to educate us about craftsmanship and quality.

I must admit, the title of this one deterred me from watching. I should have known better, being your content. What a marvelous home. Thank you for sharing this house, and the homeowner for the tour.

What a phenomenal house. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. You are the BEST!!!

almost sounds like you are whispering or hushing your voice because of the magnitude of the space. 💯

Stunning interiors. Always love how detailed you are in your descriptions. Gotta say the best thing about being inside the house is that you don’t have to look at the outside 😅 That facade! Yipes, that’s the 70s! I would strip out all those glorious details and move them yet again to another life in another structure with a more appropriate, tasteful exterior. Continue the heritage and pass it along. Thanks for the tour!

This is ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR!!!!!! WOW!!!

One of the most beautiful houses I’ve ever seen!

Gorgeous house, so elegant and classy.

Amazing house! So many mansions have fallen into disrepair and been demolished, I'm so glad to hear the phenomenal library and other intact rooms from the Dodge mansion have been preserved. Thanks so much for the tour. I always learn something new from you. :)

Brent- I have never this quality in a 1970 house. Thanks for your dedication to your craft.

This is, without a doubt, my favorite house of all those that you have shown us. Thanks for sharing.

Great video!! You’re a compelling speaker, love the constant insights. Would love more graphics and - didactic breakdown of various decorative moldings. (I know you offer this in other videos but fun to see how it applies to a certain room or home)

Magical!

That hand-carved oak room was truly spectacular without being garish nor pretentious. The reason contemporary classical usually "fails" is, in my opinion, because people usually try to do "a lot for quick and cheap" instead of doing "a little but extremely well." That's the key. You can get away with "a lot," but only if the craftsmanship is there. The only thing I saw that bothered me was the disproportionate outdoor fireplace. The columns should have been doubled up and the gable pediment dropped for better balance.

Finally a chair rail that can be 36 inches😂

what an amazing house! Thank you for the tour and appreciate you speaking to the details of the rooms, doors, etc!

Beautiful

WOW!!

It would be interesting to learn what is from the Dodge Mansion and what is “new” (a la Winterthur).

Congrats to Hull Works on getting this contract, you must have been over the moon! I just know this project alone is going to provide a wealth of informational material for this channel and I'm here for it!

For thousands of years, most houses were made cheap. The ones that lasted used expensive materials and lots of labor. This hasn't changed. My dads 1st house was a mid 1960s house. It had a combination of good and so good features. The wood that went into the structure, while milled, was still high quality (and didn't cost much). My dad who was classically trained modified the design and ias a result it was the best looking inside and out, and cost more. I hated the jalousie windows in my bedroom. Dad would send me into the crawl space to run pipes and wires as it was a raised foundation house. The beautiful parquet floors were wonderful. The slate hallway was fun to slide on in my socks. The dad designed fire place was actually functional, unlike the ugly fire places in the rest of the tract. The kitchen had a pass through to the back yard which dad turned into a grape arbor patio. That patio over looked the rose garden terrace, which overlooked the swimming pool. I built the the 7 foot tall dad designed retaining wall with my grandfather. I put in all the automated irrigation, which started out with galvanized pipe, switching to PVC when it became available. Of course the location was everything, it looked over Chatsworth Reservoir and the Santa Susana Mountains. The architecture was ¿Hawaiian? Double hiped roof with redwood facing and beautiful redwood screening in front of the breakfast room. I had the job of maintaining the exterior wood and supervising the flat roof renewals. All the beautiful and expensive redwood has been removed and replaced with soulless stucco. There is no grand redwood decking entry way. He redwood roof shingles are replaced by ugly composit . The grape Arbour above the patio is replaced by an ugly solid patio cover. The 97 rose bushes I planted are replaced by palm trees. Dad is on his 3rd house which started out being an ugly 1970s monstrosity. It took him decades to make it look nice, the last work he did was when he was 90. He built forms for 15 foot tall deck support columns

Nice dive into details. Been restoring an 1865 Victorian and there are so many things to thing about. How rooms were used compared to how we use them today (kitchen for servants verses kitchen as social space). How far to go with materials or construction techniques (plywood verses solid wood).

Beautiful construction. In my opinion, the large windows that flank the main entrance should have frames in the same color as the façade to give it a natural setting.

I’m a huge fan and am just interested in the subject. Would it make sense for me, a non-builder, to join the Patreon, or is that geared for professionals? This is absolutely wonderful content-please keep doing it!

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It just screams "good taste!"

I hope this house doesn't have much lead paint in it. I found today one can get serious lead poisoning and be out tens of thousands just from a single job if he doesn't know how to do it, and old houses are full of it. Maybe you could make a video about that?

Hi Brent, great video! While I was wandering around the internet I discovered an interview you did with Clayton Vance in which you mentioned that you live in an “ugly 1960’s house”. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr5hmpaB2KnaqIk.html What would you design for yourself today that would be your perfect house? Have you done any plans for a dream house for yourself? Also, could you post a list of all the videos you’ve made with other people - videos that may not be included on your own channel?

Some people have money but terrible taste. Some people have refined taste but no money. When great taste matches with lots of money, magic can happen. This house is MAGIC. Not just Louis XIV, XV, or XVI, I think if he had a Tardis, even Frederick the Great, the francophile King in (later, "of") Prussia, might have left his Potsdam summer palace of "San Souci" and felt right at home enjoying some time in Texas and composing a few more flute sonatas instead of marching around Europe and fighting Austria over Silesia.

European here, this is still a a McMansion sorry.

Ummmm wow! This doesn’t even look real!