Dollhouse, which is more expensive real property

• Dollhouse, which is more expensive than the real property

Colin Moore was one of the highest paid and most fashionable movie stars in Hollywood of the 1920s. She had two passions - cinema and dolls.

During his film career from 1916 to 1934, she starred in over 60 films, but unfortunately, many of her movies were not preserved. Although we can not see her movies, the memory of Colin Moore lives thanks to her second passion - dolls.

For the love of dolls, she spent an exorbitant amount of money that she earned in Hollywood to create the dollhouse of your dreams, the cost of which now stands at about 500 thousand - $ 7 million. The house was built between 1928 and 1935, in the midst of an acting career, Colin. It was created by 100 designers and craftsmen.

The house is not so small - more than 2 meters high. In fact, he looks more like a mini castle. Real prototype of the castle do not exist - it is entirely created by the imagination of its creators, inspired by the architectural curiosities of the world. In the house there is a staircase, similar to the Spanish Steps in Rome, and a mini-version of the Round Table of King Arthur. On the ceiling of the Great Hall painted scenes from fairy tales.

In the chapel hangs a Russian icon, decorated with emeralds and diamonds. There is a small house and a statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dinner service in the kitchen is similar to the one that can be seen in the doll house of Queen Mary at Windsor Castle. Is there and the cornerstone, representing a gold ingot, laid Roosevelt Franklin mother, Sarah.

The best materials have been used in the construction of the doll house - there is a door made of ivory and floors made of pink quartz and jade. In the chapel you can see the stained glass windows and the golden altar, and put up in the Great Hall of the tiny gun that shoots silver bullets. There is a tiny platinum diamond ring, so small that even a thin needle will not pass through it.

Some of the items found inside the house are authentic historical artifacts, including Egyptian jar with kohl, which is already 2000 years old.

The house has all modern amenities, including electricity. House light bulb the size of a grain of wheat, screwed into tiny golden chandeliers, which are decorated with precious stones. The bathroom runs from the taps flowing water.

The house is about 1, 500 miniatures, including original paintings - one of them painted by myself Walt Disney. Here you will find a tiny and a whole library of manuscripts, including the smallest ever wrote the Bible. There is a house organ and radio.

The country was in the depths of the Great Depression, when the construction of the wonderful house has been completed, so it is exhibited at the show to collect funds to help the needy. He was driven across the country and set in large department stores, where he could see everyone. Thus has raised over $ 500 000, which were transferred to children's charities.

In 1949, this extraordinary doll house was transferred to the Science and Industry Museum of Chicago, where he remains to this day. Recently it has been restored, because, like any other house, his time should be repaired from time to time.