



“This was at one time the most expensive house in the country. “I appreciate change, and the vision but the lack of effort to reclaim any of the materials before that level of demo kinda sucks - I guess with a certain clientele, no one cares?” commented one Instagram user on Rafauli’s post about the demolition. The house appeared to be in pretty good shape when it was razed, as evidenced by images from Talking Walls Photography, leading some to question why it wouldn’t have just been revamped again instead of bulldozed. It’s a true classic - one that many millennials will remember watching repeatedly on VHS while dreaming of finding their own long-lost twin bestie.Ī sad day for great classic film lovers… MK&A eventually scheme to make Guttenberg and Alley’s characters fall in love so that the four of them may live happily ever after, together, as a family. The nine-year-old girls meet at summer camp and decide to pull a little switcheroo, going home to each others’ lives, a la The Princess Switch or, more accurately, Mark Twain’s The Prince and The Pauper. Released in 1995, It Takes Two starred the Olsen twins as two identical little girls being raised as complete strangers, one as an orphan (whose social worker is Kirstie Alley) and one as the daughter of a very rich dude (Steve Guttenberg). The original theatrical release poster for 1995’s “It Takes Two.” (Warner Bros.) It was during this time, before Harold and Sara Springer bought the home in 2002 and styled it as a 17th-century French chateau, that several films were made on the property, including Kissinger and Nixon, That Old Feeling, and, of course, the iconic aforementioned Mary-Kate and Ashley flick. Campeau was forced to sell this house in 1990 although the house was in his wife’s name which protected it from creditors. Various deals to purchase the property fell through over the next six years.” Due to a downturn in retail sales, the debts taken on through several of these aquisitions were unable to be met,” reads a post about the mansion. “During the 1980s, Campeau undertook several leveraged buyouts of businesses including shopping malls. You can watch these $2.99 movies at Cineplex every day of March BreakĪccording to the Talking Walls Photography website, the mansion was originally built in 1985 by real estate developer and financier Robert Campeau.This is what a $1 million home looks like in Toronto right now (PHOTOS).Fo shizzle: Snoop Dogg partners with Canadian Cannabis company.It’s in the basement in the room with all the closet doors.” “I also saw the bomb shelter which I’d missed before, and it was quite anti climatic. The house will be gone this week,” wrote the prolific photographer, who had previously explored the home when it was merely abandoned. “If you hurry down to 68 The Bridle Path, there’s an area where there’s no gate and you can get in and explore the pool area and more. A post shared by Ferris Rafauli Ontario-based urban explorer behind confirmed the news of the demolition in August by posting a photo from the scene.
