Kansas Jayhawks Mansion Auction!

Kansas Jayhawks Mansion Auction!

Kansas Jayhawks Mansion Auction!

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Kansas is a hotspot for college basketball with a lineage that goes all the way back to the game’s inventor. James Naismith, born in Canada and later moving to Lawrence, Kansas, created the game while he was teaching and coaching at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. The first official game that year used peach baskets for hoops and a soccer ball for a basketball. Over time the game was refined and Naismith went on to write the original rules of basketball, which were very different from the rules used today. Naismith lived in Lawrence, Kansas for 41 years and it was there that he founded the Kansas basketball program and also coached the great Forrest "Phog" Allen while the modern game was taking shape. Phog Allen ended up coaching Hall of Fame coaches Dean Smith, Adolph Rupp and Ralph Miller. Late in Naismith’s life he said he wished the Basketball Hall of Fame would be erected in Lawrence, Kansas but instead it was built in Springfield.

How popular is basketball in Kansas? Going up for auction on September 25th, in Lawrence, is a 10,000 square foot modern day English estate named Stone Bridge, complete with a replica University of Kansas Jayhawks basketball court. Situated on 54 acres, the 10,000 square foot mansion contains five bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a chef’s kitchen and a secret passageway from the library to the master suite. Furnished in medieval style, there are tapestry covered walls and coffered walnut ceilings. The estate includes a solid concrete tornado room and an old-fashioned phone booth to call home.

The grounds contain a greenhouse imported from England, equestrian facilities, riding trails and a hay field with a stocked fishing pond. When not playing or watching hoops, basketball fans and non-fans can enjoy the home’s billiards room, wet bar, fitness center and infinity-edged pool. The home and court were featured in an ESPN documentary, There’s No Place Like Home.

Kansas mansion includes 10,000 square feet, 16th-century furnishings and a replica Jayhawks basketball court. Was listed at $5 million. Bids start $500,000.

Source: www.kansasluxuryestate.com