The 35,000-square-foot Colonial Revival house of George Eastman
took three years to build and was completed in 1905 at a cost of
$300,000. The estate originally included a stable, garage, barn,
five greenhouses, and many vegetable and flower gardens on eight
and one-half acres. The house has thirty-seven rooms, thirteen
baths, and nine fireplaces. Today the house is home to the
International Museum of Photography and Film which resides
behind the original home which is kept as a memorial to the man
who created modern photography through his company, Kodak. I
have visited other homes and museums of millionaires from the
19th and 20th century before. Unlike the others, George Eastman
never married so his home was more like a bachelor pad. As an
avid big game hunter, he used lots of animal trophies, furs and
even feet of antelopes and elephants for ashtrays and trash cans
in his house. His library features a desk topped with a
rhinoceros hide. In 1928, on George Eastman’s second African
safari, he returned with