Is this house a Mansion or a McMansion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The “McMansion Hell” blogger/writer has lots of genuinely good articles on how to identify mansion vs McMansion (square footage is irrelevant but there are many distinctions between the two)

Square footage is absolutely relevant. There are different measures of square footage depending on location. Legit mansions in NYC, Charleston, and other brownstone-esque city mansions couldn't possibly have 20k+, so they are evaluated differently.

Lol sweetie. No. This house would be a McMansion at 6k, 16k or 60k square feet. The roofline alone is textbook McMansion, as are the fake (non-structural) interior columns, bad windows, lack of mature landscaping and so very much more.

It's a "mansion" built for the Sopranos whose taste never left Queens. It has all the hallmarks of a tacky McMansion, but SUPERSIZE it. It's enormous, but nothing about it looks nice.

"I like it, but make me feel more like I'm at the Bellagio in Vegas. Homey though, like all decor purchased from HomeGoods"

[Anonymous]

Some realtors in the US term mansions as houses that have a minimum of 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) of floor space.[11] Others claim a viable minimum could instead be 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) of floor space, especially in a city environment.

-From Wikipedia

Mansions are extremely large homes built by wealthy families for their own use (again, Wikipedia supported by history).

McMansions are big houses built by developers and sold to the masses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of this one off of Georgetown Pike in Great Falls.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/804-Hortense-Pl-Great-Falls-VA-22066/246582720_zpid/

I love this one and the original.