<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aff44602-1df2-46fa-bc7e-dfc1c5fd5255/9D98186F-0C62-4AEA-BE7E-8DDE9E0EA88A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082" href="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082" style="font-size: 11px;">news.cincinnati.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.cincinnati.com/img/4C8DDC55-8ECB-4CC0-82A8-3A6D0B95E38C" alt="photo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082"><P>For 100 years, Laurel Court was a private residence. Neighbors might pause to peek through a break in the tall hedges or gawk through the gate to see the home’s wide, museum-like granite steps and statues of angels poised on the front lawn. But that was the extent of the public’s interaction with the College Hill mansion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082"><P>It was built in 1907 for Peter G. Thomson, founder of the Champion Coated Paper Co., and designed to resemble Louis XV’s Petit Trianon in Versailles, France.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082"><P>Laurel Court and its 23 acres stayed in the Thomson family until 1947. From 1948 to 1977, the property was owned by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and was a residence for Archbishops McNicholas and Alter. Donald “Buddy” LaRosa then bought it and used it as a headquarters for the LaRosa pizza business until 1991, when he sold it to auctioneer Roger Loth, who lived at the property until 1999.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081205/LIFE08/312050082"><P>“Our feeling is this is a historic building that’s meant to be shared,” Judy says.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D98186F-0C62-4AEA-BE7E-8DDE9E0EA88A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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