Builder Jerry Glaser got an extra special thank you after completing this fabulous mansion located just off of Keystone Rd. in Tarpon Springs. The St. Petersburg Times reports:
Glaser's wealthy clients so admired his work on their $15.6-million, 26,000-square-foot estate near Tarpon Springs they bought a full-page color ad in Sunday's St. Petersburg Times.
The super-sized Hallmark card cost the equivalent of a decent Winnebago: $49,452.
"Thank you Jerry Glaser of Glaser Custom Homes for all the hard work that you have put in our project for the last three years,'' the ad read. "Because of you, our dream home has become a reality. Thank you, The Baumgarts."
Glaser had returned from church on Sunday, poured himself a coffee, and retreated to his balcony with his newspaper. About a dozen pages into the thick Sunday copy, he got more than a caffeine jolt.
The mansion is located in a highly secluded millionaire enclave developed by former NBA basketball great Matt Geiger. Geiger resides in that enclave, but this house is one of the area's more superior dwellings.
Inside a wing of the eight-bedroom, 14-bathroom house, Glaser built a cobblestone "piazza" fronted by shops that include a working ice cream parlor and 1930s-style movie house gleaming with 4 pounds of gold leaf trim.
The 30-foot ceiling over the piazza is illuminated by dimmer lights that simulate the passing of the day. The Baumgarts' swimming pool is a facsimile of the lazy river ride at a theme park in Orlando. The 5,000-square-foot guest house surpasses in size most people's full-time pads.
Glaser was so thorough in the building of this highly elaborate estate home that he even hired a contractor who helped build Oprah Winfrey's home to build the movie theater. I give this home an E, for Exquisite.
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