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A northern, southern and western view of the city of Syracuse comes with this luxury corner penthouse in Mission Landing. The 3,300-square-foot condominium with a private rooftop deck features soaring ceilings, exposed antique wood beams and 12-foot-high paned windows. The condo is at 429 N. Franklin St. in the Mission Landing development in Franklin Square. It was designed by Holmes, King and Kallquist architects in 1990. The space was carved out of what was originally the Monarch Typewriter factory, built in 1906. "This was raw space when it was originally designed," said Peggy Cadaret, real estate representative from Prudential First Properties. The interior designer was Chester Sagenkahn. The two-floor condo with three bedrooms and three full bathrooms is priced at $969,900.
Rare African art to be sold Feb. 17-18 at Red Baron's
(Atlanta, Ga.) - About 200 rare West African artifacts from a huge collection, amassed in the '40s and '50s by a botanist working in Liberia for the Firestone Company, will be sold as part of a four-estate auction slated for February 17-18 by Red Baron. The objects will be offered up in group lots (masks, wooden figures, jewelry, bronzes, etc.). All are museum quality and fresh to the market. This is a traveling exhibition waiting for a permanent home, said Paul Brown, vice president of Red Baron. Every item is tagged, like in a museum. Brown added the collection has been exhibited at the Pensacola Museum of Art and was almost sold to the Peabody Museum at Harvard in 1974. But a deal was never finalized. It's been in secure, climate-controlled storage ever since. The African art is sure to draw intense bidder interest, but it is only one in a galaxy of show-stopping lots typical for a Red Baron sale.
Heirloom Discover Day to benefit riding charity
Bring your fine jewelry, coins, art and vintage items to Cathedral City this month to find out if they're valuable, and you can help a good cause at the same time.
Pegasus Riding Academy for the Handicapped is hosting an Heirloom Discovery Day on Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Doral Desert Princess in Cathedral City. The event, like the popular PBS "Antique Road Show," invites the public to bring their valuables to find out if they were true treasures.
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Doral Desert Princess Hotel Grand Ballroom.
People interested in having their goods reviewed can call the Heirloom Discovery Day hotline at (760) 218-9922 in advance and make an appointment with an appraiser. Those without an appointment will be allowed to wait in line for an appraiser.
Birds find nest
They may not be living, breathing animals, but the collection of 156 Stangl pottery birds has a new home at the place bearing her name, the Edna Boykin Cultural Center.
Boykin recently watched as volunteers placed the birds colorful hummingbirds, blue jays, chickens and ducks in cabinets at the center and told how her collection evolved.
"I was at an antique show in Raleigh about 10 years ago and saw a display of Stangl birds," Boykin said. "I liked them so much I bought the dealer's entire collection," which was seven or eight pieces.
Boykin then read a book about Stangl birds and got bird collecting fever. She called Stangl expert Walt Parker of Thomas Parker Antiques in Rocky Mount for help.
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