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"Estates for Sale\nEditors Select Properties Around the World: South Carolina, Italy, California, Vermont \u2026\nOnly a pool pavilion remains from Casa Blanca, a 1927 Moorish-style residence on the beach in Carpinteria that was torn down and replaced in 1995. But what also survived from the original house, designed by George Washington Smith, is its exotic, whitewashed spirit. Architect Don Peterson's equally distinctive reincarnation is 6,000 square feet, with three bedrooms, four baths, two offices and a one-bedroom guest apartment. $13.5 million. Call 805-565-4546.\nA 100-foot-long grape arbor is one of several unique elements that define an 18th-century, three-story residence centered on 2.7 acres in Sugartown. Others include a stone smokehouse, a 300-year-old beech and a seven-room carriage house. The five-bedroom, four-bath main house has five fireplaces, 11-foot ceilings in the public rooms and a home theater. $2.85 million. Call 610-513-0040.\nWith a two-story entrance tower inspired by nearby Civil War ruins, a contemporary Spring Island house also pays heed to its pastoral surroundings, with soaring rooflines and a 20-foot wall of windows looking out to a freshwater pond. The three-bedroom, 3.5-bath main house, a 1,000-square-foot guesthouse, a studio and a woodworking shop with a darkroom are all connected by boardwalks. $2.625 million. Call 843-987-2200.\nThe ninth-century Castello di Montegualandro, in Tuoro sul Trasimeno, has changed hands many times since Charlemagne gave it to Ariberto, Lord of Monte Santa Maria, in 802. Prized for both its strategic location on the Tuscany-Umbria border and its views of Lake Trasimeno, the 28-room, 12-bath castle, which is protected by a moat, has wine cellars, a chapel and a donjon. $22 million. Call 39-075-8230-267.\nBuilt circa 1796 and expanded in the 1920s by Yale School of Architecture graduate George Gallowhur, a seven-bedroom, five-bath brick farmhouse on 200 acres in Reading is on the market for the first time in more than a century. Modern conveniences include a gourmet kitchen, a theater and a gym. Visitors are introduced to the property by a dramatic, mile-long driveway. $14.5 million. Call 802-457-4977.\nIn Victoria, British Columbia, a Colonial Revival-style house with exposed-log trusses has an elevator, a fully stocked wine cellar and a home theater. The 3,300-square-foot, two-bedroom, four-bath residence, located near two Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses, boasts state-of-the-art lighting, heating and air-conditioning systems that can be programmed from anywhere in the world. $2.45 million. Call 250-294-9402.\nA six-bedroom, 6.5-bath stucco-and-limestone house by the architectural firm Barnes Coy Associates recalls the designs of Sir Edwin Lutyens in the early 1900s. However, his creations would not have included a Viking range, a gym, a media room or, presumably, a 1930s Lord and Burnham greenhouse (above, at rear). $7.95 million. Call 631-749-0999.\nDesigned by Marion Sims Wyeth for grand entertaining, the 1928 Casa Vera was completely renovated 10 years ago by Smith Architectural Group and Worth Builders. Set amid lush tropical gardens, the 9,271-square-foot house, in the classic Mediterranean style of the area, has five bedrooms, five baths, a gym, an elevator, a sauna and a 36-by-22-foot great room. $17.5 million. Call 561-818-6351.\nA 6,600-square-foot Cape Cod-style house sits on some of the last oceanfront land to be developed in Santa Barbara. Located one mile north of Hope Ranch, the five-suite residence has its own man-made beach on a bluff 80 feet above the (natural) beach, which is accessible by a common stairway. Architect Robert Foley took full advantage of the location by adding an outdoor dining area, a fire pit and several decks and patios, including an observation deck that has an infinity-edge pool, a redwood hot tub and a fireplace. The most popular place to spend time may be the underground entertainment area, with a walk-in humidor, a wine cellar, a pool table, a spa with a sauna, and a theater with a 103-inch screen. $15 million. Call 805-504-0699.\nA sense of majesty distinguishes the grand Ch\u00E2teau du Lac estate overlooking Lake Michigan. The main, 35,000-square-foot building has four bedrooms, seven full baths, an Art D\u00E9co-style theater and a double-height library. There are additional living quarters on the grounds: two guesthouses and a beachfront unit. $29 million. Call 920-421-0802.\nOakwood, a recently renovated 1854 Italianate house on 5.27 acres, was owned at one time by Mary Alida Astor, daughter of William Backhouse Astor. The seven-bedroom, 10-bath residence, with grand formal rooms, is a short walk from downtown Newport and the harbor. The property, circled by a woodland trail, also has a lawn tennis court, a PGA-standard putting green and a solarium with views of the east gardens. $10.75 million. Call 401-284-4820.\nPeace is the overarching feeling surrounding a circa 1900 Dutch Colonial Revival house, with five bedrooms and 2.5 baths, 30 miles north of the busy Boston metropolis. The 2.1-acre grounds in Beverly Farms include a stream-fed pond and a variety of flora: rare pink lilies of the valley, rhododendrons, lilacs, weeping willows, Norway and Colorado spruces and sugar maples. Three separate decks at the rear of the 3,700-square-foot residence overlook a sloping lawn. The house has original millwork, casework and hardware throughout. $1.925 million. Call 617-357-8996.\nFewer than 400 people live in the Ann Arbor Township village of Barton Hills, where an 18,300-square-foot brick manor with nine bedrooms and 10.5 baths enjoys 700 feet of frontage on Barton Pond, part of the Huron River. The six acres of verdant forest also play host to open gardens, two streams, a 2,000-square-foot guesthouse and a boathouse. $6.75 million. Call 734-604-9777.\nTwo surprises greet the first-time visitor to a neo-Renaissance ch\u00E2teau in McLean: (1) The house is not in France, and (2) It was built in the 21st\u2014not the 15th\u2014century. Additional mirages of time and place include a 34-foot-high dome with gold-leafed coffers, walnut parquet de Versailles floors, a circular receiving hall and a grand salon with a 30-foot ceiling. $17.5 million. Call 202-483-3003.\nPart of a gated community an hour north of Atlanta, an 8,000-square-foot, six-bedroom, 4.5-bath log house on two wooded acres has views of the Chattahoochee National Forest and the Appalachian Trail. The resort community, named Big Canoe, has 27 holes of golf, 10 tennis courts (including four clay courts), 20 miles of hiking trails, three lakes, a spa with an indoor, Olympic-size saline pool, and two outdoor pools. $2.95 million. Call 678-296-1774."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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