Though not quite as dramatic as the changing popularity tides in the Republican primaries, the Martha’s Vineyard waterfront estate known as the Athearn House, beat out a lakefront estate challenge from Texas, to become the Wall Street Journal’s prestigious House Of The Week today.
WSJ House Of The Week Video Preview
After a higher than normal online voter turnout, WSJ House Of The Week editor Sushil Cheema declared Athearn House the winner this morning, taking 45% of the online votes cast.
The heated house showdown for the week of January 20,2012, followed coverage by the Wall Street Journal in studio and in the WSJ-produced slideshows viewed online by voters. Unlike the current political primaries, however, after declaring a winner each Monday, the Journal allows online voting to continue on all of its House Of The Week races, with results occasionally shifting.
Stunning Vineyard Waterfront Real Estate
The Athearn House compound sits on a gentle hillside in the exclusive Planting Field Way area of Edgartown, overlooking Nantucket Sound, with 300-feet of private sandy beach, a pool, a historic main house and carriage house. The estate has been in the same family for three generations and is now offered for sale at $19,500,000. Point B Realty Sales Listing. Athearn House is also available as a summer rental through Point B.
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