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head could hold so much.’ ”

Ms. Medved borrowed the Corin-

thian columns, English-style fire-

places, elaborate chandeliers and ca-

thedral ceilings for her design. For

the living room, she designed

a hickory wood fireplace

with candelabras and carved

Elizabethan figures.

Then there is the study.

“My husband wanted to be a

cowboy,” Ms. Medved said.

The room has an expansive

stone fireplace and timber

beams honed from trees on

the site. A fresco on the ceil-

ing depicts buffalo, Texas

Longhorn cattle and despera-

dos pulling up in a stagecoach. Mr.

Medved’s face is painted on a desper-

ado, and Ms. Medved is pictured inside

the stagecoach.

The study is also filled with taxi-

dermied animals, most of which Mr.

Medved shot himself. One he didn’t

shoot, however, is a bear. Mr. Medved

said he has long dreamed of shooting

one, since his family name means

bear in his parents’ native language.

They hailed from the country for-

merly known as Czechoslovakia.

The roughly 160-acre prop-

erty also includes an outdoor

pool, a private shooting range

and hunting facilities, and a

working cattle and horse

ranch with barns, horse runs,

silos, an indoor arena and a

caretaker’s apartment. There

are about 50 mother cows,

bulls and a small number of

horses on the property. Mr.

Medved said the animals

could be sold with the prop-

erty depending on a buyer’s prefer-

ences.

In the early 1990s, the Medveds

bought the site of a former ski resort

that went bankrupt in the 1980s and

an adjacent ranch, they said. They had

to raze the ski lifts and towers to

build their dream house. Construction

took close to two years and was com-

pleted in 1999.

The couple worried that building

such a massive home might alienate

people in the community and poten-

tially hurt their business. But they said

the property was ultimately well-re-

ceived, and they’ve used it to host local

events. One woman in the local plan-

ning office warned them that they’d be

divorced by the time the project was

finished, but they proved her wrong.

The couple said they are selling be-

cause their six children are grown,

and the house is too big for two. The

property is listed by Katie Williams

and Anne Dresser Kocur of LIV So-

theby’s International Realty.

—Katherine Clarke

In a former gold rush town outside

Denver, on top of a former ski resort,

a massive mansion inspired by the

English Cotswolds and the Old West is

listing for $37 million.

If it sells for that price, the sprawl-

ing property would be among the

most expensive homes ever sold in

the area, according to real-estate

agents there.

The roughly 17,000-square-foot,

eight-bedroom home was mostly in-

fluenced by a trip to England, when

John and Debi Medved, owners of six

Colorado car dealerships, rented out

St. Catherine’s Court, they said. The

16th-century manor house was gifted

by King Henry VIII to his tailor and

once was owned by the actress Jane

Seymour, according to reports.

Ms. Medved, though not a contrac-

tor, led the design process, jotting

down notes on stray napkins. “She

said, ‘I’ve got it all in my head, I’ve

just got to get it out,’ ” Mr. Medved

recalled. “I said, ‘I never knew your

England and the Old West

Combine in Colorado

FOR SALE

$37

MILLION

17,000 sq. ft.,

Corinthian

columns,

horse runs,

hunting

facilities

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