$2.4M For Regal Ansley Dame With Guest Cottage

Is there a more ego-inflating experience than inviting friends over for the night and shepherding them to your guest cottage? Or showing said friends around the resort-style, heated swimming pool, with its lovely French doors that frame your private courtyard and gardens — all of this with Midtown's spires peeking in from above? Unless your current residence is Versailles, we're guessing not. This pumped-up sense of self-worth is within arm's reach in Ansley Park, provided your hands have $2.5 million dollars in them. This 1904 landmark property is impressive. The broker assures us the current owners have painstakingly restored every detail "down to the studs" throughout the six bedrooms, seven and ½ baths, the grand entry, wraparound front porch, three fireplaces and keeping room with built-ins. The two fake Scottish guards in the billiards room notwithstanding, the décor is warm to the point of grandmotherly. It's a little too rich for our tastes, but not unexpected in a dame of this stature. · 15 Inman Circle NE [Estately]