Cat Make Composition in the same family since 1800 asks $ 10 million – massive stone maze and bronze statues included

Get lost in this forested with $ 10 million – literally.

A colonial style home and widespread property in Arkville, New York is on the market for it many-and it brings with it an unusual convenience: a handwritten labyrinth. The forested wealth has been supported by the same family since the late 1800s, Wall Street Journal reported.

The main house, built in 1970, offers eight bathrooms and 7.5 bathrooms in about 5,300 square meters. If sold, the house and its 280 acres would set a record for Delaware County, the Kathryn Johnson List agent, of Told Realty International Realty International by William Pitt Sotheby.

The house already claims a superlative.

Maze winding -kredha, completed in 1965, goes 1,680 meters in length and its high stone tools reach up to 10 meters high.

The complex stone structure includes bronze statues of Daedalus, his son Icarus and Minotaur. In Greek mythology, the capable Daedalus inventor built the labyrinth to hold the slave of the semi-man, half-brew of the Queen of Crete.

The environmental sculpture was ordered by the late financier Armand Erpf, who was inspired after reading “The Maze Maker”, by the late British author and artist Michael Aryton, a fictitious Daedalus autobiography.

It was the Aryton which Erpf fentered to build a maze.

Erpf children, who are selling property, have spent decades of fun from installation. His son Tolomy Erpf told the magazine to play in the maze with cousins ​​during family reunions.

“There is an echo as you walk along with your steps,” he told the newspaper. “My favorite time there is either in the morning or in the evening when the sun creates really interesting shades along the walls and flowers.”

Beyond the winding labyrinth is 40 hectares of lawns, meadows and pastures, as well as 240 hectares of mixed forests, in order. Natural attractions of wealth include swimming holes and streams, moss -lined trails and a five -stable horse barn. Other environmental art installations are distributed across the property.

The main picturesque, white washed house was renovated in 2016 with modern equipment, according to the list. The buildings include a guest house with three private apartments, a large pool and a accompanying POO home, an office cabin and a six -cars garage.