Of course like almost all television productions, they only took exterior shots of the house one time. All of the filming was done on a sound stage in Los Angeles. I have a friend from Pennsylvania who was floored when I told him The Office was never filmed in Scranton. Like a bunch of Hollywood actors would want to live in Scranton half the year to film a tv show. 😂
SO funny! Hadn't thought of the Sugarbaker Firm for years! Just today, I did! I served for lunch a QUICKIE. (Quiche). Which got me laughing and remembering this episode. Anyone else remember?: ... She didn't twirl just A baton, that baton was ON FIRE and when she threw that baton into the air it flew higher further faster than any baton had ever flown before hitting a transformer and showering that darkened arena with sparks, and when it finally did come down, Majorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12000 people jumped to their feet for 16 and 1/2 minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation as flames illuminated her tear stained face AND THAT Majorie, just so you will know, and your children will someday know, is THE. NIGHT. THE. LIGHTS. WENT. OUT. IN. GEORG AHHHH! Thank you for the historical trip to Arkansas and wonderful tour of Villa Marre...TRULY ENJOYED IT! And forgive my taking liberty in sharing my most favored line of the series. Yes, Julia said that in ONE line. Dixie was quite skilled in the art wasn't she? 🎭
Well alrighty then…quite the colorful character, Mr. Marre! I love the mirrors and mantles. So beautiful. Thank you for showing this lovely home along with its unique history.
Oh my gosh, I love the floors! I don't care that they were placed over the original, I've never seen anything like them. Unless one has deep pockets, you probably won't see them anytime soon in today's buildings.
I love your production on “intimate portraits” of olden days Houses. The History, editing, drone work, presentation, personality, etc. This channel deserves far more credits it receives. Keep doing what you’re doing. Love-love-love ❤
I’m always excited to watch Our Restoration Nation episodes. These homes and mansions are a true “wow” factor for me every time. I appreciate the hard work put into these historic homes, the wood used, the craftsmanship, decor, the beautiful fireplaces, etc… Oh my gosh!! Thank you soooo much for letting us, your viewers, see these magnificent and very stunning homes. Great story of the owner Mr Marre, the infamous owner.
Absolutely stunning!!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! The roof is fabulous!! The round topped windows!!! Colors!!! Doors!!! And what a STORY!!! WOWWWWW!
I wish when we were in the dining room we could have seen the wall with the two doorways so we could reference how it would have been divided when it was two. It’s beautiful home with an interesting owner/history! I wish we could have seen the upstairs too. Thank you so much for giving us what you can in each of these beautiful homes!
I've always loved this historic home. I remember catering an anniversary party there back in 1988. I so loved the architecture then but love it even more now. I have a better appreciation of the historical significance it has and even more so since you've shared some of the more scandalous details with us. Great presentation and thank you so much for bringing back some fun memories for me.
I lost it when cole tore out all of the beautiful trees that had been planted decades earlier. Haven't been able to bring myself to watch the house "restoration" series. His great, great grandpa must be turning in his grave. 😢
That was really fun. I had always assumed the house was in Atlanta! Thanks for explaining the pier mirror…at first I thought it was a “pure” mirror, then a “peer” mirror 😂
I live near here and I try to make sure i drive by here every time i go to LR just to pay homage to Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, Charlene and Anthony. . Designing Women is STILL my favorite TV show ever.
What I like the most about your video's is your extensive knowledge of all different types of architecture. That and your obvious love of architecture shows in all your videos. I must admit that I was a little bit disappointed that you didn't show the wall painting you said was stored in the basement. I would have loved to have seen it. Love this house by the way. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for showing it.
THANK YOU! Appreciated the nostalgia 👒 which the exterior brought, but REALLY enjoyed the history (Angelo was quite the scalawag!) and the inside tour!!! Gorgeous.
And we would have loved to show you, but the upstairs is their residence and the beds weren’t made and it wasn’t “presentation “ ready. I’d already tidied up downstairs to video, and as I’m not hired for maid services, I was NOT cleaning their upstairs
What a beauty!! 😍 I've been watching this channel '2nd Empire Strikes Back' & he's been restoring a house for years that looks just like this!! I just thought he liked Star Wars!! Thank you for the lesson!! 😂 Also, another channel 'Cole the Cornstar' is remodeling his great grandfather's 1915 farm house. It's huge. All original hardwood, mantels, wainscoting, fixtures, wood pillars & ceiling beams. Original door mirrors & hutches. This place was spectacular & in perfect shape. I had to stop watching b/c he's removing it all. Wainscoting, doors, mirrors, walls...MANTELS!!! He's torn it all out!!! 😢
I know that Cole channel you mentioned-I quit watching too because he got rid of his grandfather's 1929 Ford out of the garage. And I just couldn't believe that. Then tore the back porch off of the house when upstairs his grandmother's quilt had the house with the porch embroidered on a quilt. Yep quit watching. Ha ha and for 2nd Empire strikes back channel-I know that one too, I loved when they did the 1800 portraits because. Kim I think looked spectacular!
Yup, I started watching Coles channel too, hoping he would restore the house, given that he spoke so passionately about the history and local importance of the house. Fx., that it had electricity, decades before anyone else, and so on. I saw all the original features, too, and I also saw, how he just ripped through the entire house, down to the studs.... The only original feature, I can spot now, is a mantel, standing in the middle of the old livingroom. I can understand, that the house needed isolation, and structural work... But I would have put back all that trim, doors and woodwork, and really tried to be sensitive to the history of the house. But it seems like he wants to create a modern, open concept home in the old shell, and wont really be saving much of the original features... Sad, really...
@@OurRestorationNation My Hope is that he's not just throwing all the wood & fixtures. Maybe, just maybe, he donated them to someplace that will sell them to the responsible people restoring these pieces of history.
Omgosh! I have followed Kaleb on 2nd Empire Strikes Back from the beginning. I only live 2 hours from him. He is the one that recommended this channel to his audience and why I started watching them. I have also followed Cole the Cornstar since his beginning, because of his farming family. I, watched his latest episode and he tried to say why he wasn’t saving anything and it was not a good explanation for me. I started venting to my husband about the complete heartbreak I had over Cole’s and his wife’s decision to just keep the shell of the house and make a modern home. I’m devastated. 😢 He did talk like he was keeping a few things… but not much, and only if it would fit into their plans.
My mom had a restaurant on the corner of 17th and s. Main street and I drove by that beautiful home always wondered what it looked like and now I know thank you for showing it.
Thank you for letting us enjoy this piece of history and architecture that is mostly gone here in the US. I truly hope that one day someone would buy the property and restores it to its heyday meaning to the year 1881 - 82 from the basement up to the roof and the gardens which I am sure need rehabilitation as well. It is a diamond in the rough.
Thank you for telling me about the history of the house. I live in Little Rock and have admired it very much. I did not know Charles Thompson did work on the house. I worked for his architecture firm for 38 years and did not know this. He also designed the state capitol. The firm is now called Cromwell and has been active in LR since the civil war.
I always enjoy your excellent commentary on the lovely properties you show and enjoy learning something from each video. I grew up in Arkansas--still the home of my heart.
What a crazy life he had! The home is beautiful, stunning! I loved when they would show the outside of the house on Designing Women, loved that show, didn't realize that was in Little Rock. Wish you would have been able to snag her back then.
Oh My Thank You So Much for this Lovely Critique Showing of such a Gorgeous Home Well Done I want lie i kept looking for a Plaque a Picture Anything to honour The Sugar Bakers ❤
I " ALWAYS" LOVED THOSE 2 SIDE BY SIDE HOUSES EVEN WHEN THEY WERE IN RUINS NEARLY around 1974. ALL MY FRIENDS thought I WAS NUTS BUT I was a visionary❗❗❗❗💛⭐⭐⭐💖
OMG!!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Kevin and Laine, this was such an incredible home tour!!! Thank you so very much for making this home’s interior so enjoyable to see!!! Such amazing craftsmanship and history!!! As always, y’all did an excellent job!! 👏🏻 Dorothy Blum Cooper- The Barrow House & Gardens of Louisburg
The stories of the Memphis Marre and beyond! He was a trip! I wonder if the Marre's were ever brought up in Designing Women?? Lovely venue for weddings with those amazing mantles for backdrop.
Thanks for the tour! I actually have a painting of the Villa Marre hanging in my living room. So I’ve always wanted to know what it looked like inside!
Regarding my past comments: I never intended to disregard your channel’s guidelines….”Teardown is my nickname and Money Pit is what I call my girlfriend. I LOVE your work!!
There was such a blatant lack of architectural integrity on the TV show I knew it would be very different inside. This is better than I thought it would be. Thanks for the tour!
I'd say infamous! What a story! Original or not, those parquet floors are gorgeous. The autumn colors on that second fireplace just glow. And the pier mirror! I can only imagine what other decor items of this level may have existed in the house before the remodel in 1910. I'd forgotten that the home was in Little Rock, not Georgia, but this is a definite plus, since it means you have more personal knowledge of the place. I would like to respectfully submit one correction: the carved figures on the main fireplace are winged lions (the symbol of Venice and other areas of Italy). Griffins (or gryphons) have long been associated with my family and I've incorporated a number of them in my home and garden decor (okay, I also collect them because they're cool). They typically have an eagle's head, wings, and front feet, with a lion's body. On occasion they may have a snake for a tail. One of my favorites is from John Tenniel's illustration from Alice In Wonderland. :) This tour was such a treat! Thank you.
Another great video, Laine and Kevin! Blessings to you both on your upcoming March tours, hoping to be with you in 2025. Keep up the great architectural restorative work!
Omg!!! I’ve always wanted to see the inside of this house! THANKS, from all of us die hard Designing Women fans! 😊
Yes! Love it! Thank you!!!
I always love Disigning Women .
Of course like almost all television productions, they only took exterior shots of the house one time. All of the filming was done on a sound stage in Los Angeles. I have a friend from Pennsylvania who was floored when I told him The Office was never filmed in Scranton. Like a bunch of Hollywood actors would want to live in Scranton half the year to film a tv show. 😂
SO funny! Hadn't thought of the Sugarbaker Firm for years! Just today, I did! I served for lunch a QUICKIE. (Quiche). Which got me laughing and remembering this episode. Anyone else remember?:
... She didn't twirl just A baton, that baton was ON FIRE and when she threw that baton into the air it flew higher further faster than any baton had ever flown before hitting a transformer and showering that darkened arena with sparks, and when it finally did come down, Majorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12000 people jumped to their feet for 16 and 1/2 minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation as flames illuminated her tear stained face AND THAT Majorie, just so you will know, and your children will someday know, is THE. NIGHT. THE. LIGHTS. WENT. OUT. IN. GEORG AHHHH!
Thank you for the historical trip to Arkansas and wonderful tour of Villa Marre...TRULY ENJOYED IT! And forgive my taking liberty in sharing my most favored line of the series. Yes, Julia said that in ONE line. Dixie was quite skilled in the art wasn't she? 🎭
This is absolutely one of my favorite scenes of DW. It was so strong
Gotta Love “The Terminator!”
I still watch it nightly...and still hilarious
I was never sure this house actually existed. Thank you!
Well alrighty then…quite the colorful character, Mr. Marre! I love the mirrors and mantles. So beautiful. Thank you for showing this lovely home along with its unique history.
Fascinating history of this gorgeous home. Loved watching Designing Women back in the day.
Oh my gosh, I love the floors! I don't care that they were placed over the original, I've never seen anything like them. Unless one has deep pockets, you probably won't see them anytime soon in today's buildings.
Second Empire is my favorite of all my favorites, of which there are many. What a perfectly beautiful house!
How wonderful that this house has survived and is so beautifully maintained.
I love your production on “intimate portraits” of olden days Houses. The History, editing, drone work, presentation, personality, etc. This channel deserves far more credits it receives. Keep doing what you’re doing. Love-love-love ❤
i can not believe I spent time in Little Rock in the 90s and did not know of this house, I am mad now I would have loved that!!!
I’m always excited to watch Our Restoration Nation episodes. These homes and mansions are a true “wow” factor for me every time. I appreciate the hard work put into these historic homes, the wood used, the craftsmanship, decor, the beautiful fireplaces, etc…
Oh my gosh!! Thank you soooo much for letting us, your viewers, see these magnificent and very stunning homes. Great story of the owner Mr Marre, the infamous owner.
Absolutely stunning!!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! The roof is fabulous!! The round topped windows!!! Colors!!! Doors!!! And what a STORY!!! WOWWWWW!
I love learning about architecture and history, and you educate us so well! Many thanks!!
So happy this building is being cared for and used.
Awesome!! What beautiful, I love watching restoration nation!!
Homes like these stir something deep inside me
I wish when we were in the dining room we could have seen the wall with the two doorways so we could reference how it would have been divided when it was two. It’s beautiful home with an interesting owner/history! I wish we could have seen the upstairs too. Thank you so much for giving us what you can in each of these beautiful homes!
I've always loved this historic home. I remember catering an anniversary party there back in 1988. I so loved the architecture then but love it even more now. I have a better appreciation of the historical significance it has and even more so since you've shared some of the more scandalous details with us. Great presentation and thank you so much for bringing back some fun memories for me.
I attended a wedding there in the 90’s. Absolutely elegant. Thank you for this video. I can only imagine what you guys would have done with her?!!! ❤
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL ❤️
It’s absolutely beauty of a house. Loved the history of it. So very interesting. ♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍
I keep running to watch your videos to heal my heart after watching what Cole the Cornstar did to his 100+ yo home that 6 generations had lived in.
I lost it when cole tore out all of the beautiful trees that had been planted decades earlier.
Haven't been able to bring myself to watch the house "restoration" series. His great, great grandpa must be turning in his grave. 😢
What a fascinating history! Totally remember watching Designing Women and always wondered about the history of the house.
That was really fun. I had always assumed the house was in Atlanta! Thanks for explaining the pier mirror…at first I thought it was a “pure” mirror, then a “peer” mirror 😂
Always thought a peer mirror was just a mirror allowing you to peer into one room while being in another room
Thanks for posting this. It was great seeing into such an iconic tv home.
This house is beautiful! The dining room is always my favorite!
I live near here and I try to make sure i drive by here every time i go to LR just to pay homage to Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, Charlene and Anthony. . Designing Women is STILL my favorite TV show ever.
Thank you for the tour. I could watch you and Kevin all day.
Those fireplaces what a gorgeous house.
What I like the most about your video's is your extensive knowledge of all different types of architecture. That and your obvious love of architecture shows in all your videos. I must admit that I was a little bit disappointed that you didn't show the wall painting you said was stored in the basement. I would have loved to have seen it. Love this house by the way. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for showing it.
I went and searched for it, but apparently somewhere in the 10,000 (no kidding) plastic tubes stored down there
@@OurRestorationNation -- My goodness.
Love this tour! ❤You always make the homes come alive with your history of the owners.
Beautiful!!!
Thank you for sharing.What fascinating history.Loved the show.
THANK YOU! Appreciated the nostalgia 👒 which the exterior brought, but REALLY enjoyed the history (Angelo was quite the scalawag!) and the inside tour!!! Gorgeous.
Love that house! Wish we could have seen the upstairs bedrooms. Great tour and history!
And we would have loved to show you, but the upstairs is their residence and the beds weren’t made and it wasn’t “presentation “ ready. I’d already tidied up downstairs to video, and as I’m not hired for maid services, I was NOT cleaning their upstairs
@@OurRestorationNation I don't blame you, I wouldn't have either.
What a beauty!! 😍
I've been watching this channel '2nd Empire Strikes Back' & he's been restoring a house for years that looks just like this!! I just thought he liked Star Wars!! Thank you for the lesson!! 😂
Also, another channel 'Cole the Cornstar' is remodeling his great grandfather's 1915 farm house. It's huge. All original hardwood, mantels, wainscoting, fixtures, wood pillars & ceiling beams. Original door mirrors & hutches. This place was spectacular & in perfect shape. I had to stop watching b/c he's removing it all. Wainscoting, doors, mirrors, walls...MANTELS!!! He's torn it all out!!! 😢
I know that Cole channel you mentioned-I quit watching too because he got rid of his grandfather's 1929 Ford out of the garage. And I just couldn't believe that. Then tore the back porch off of the house when upstairs his grandmother's quilt had the house with the porch embroidered on a quilt. Yep quit watching. Ha ha and for 2nd Empire strikes back channel-I know that one too, I loved when they did the 1800 portraits because. Kim I think looked spectacular!
Yup, I started watching Coles channel too, hoping he would restore the house, given that he spoke so passionately about the history and local importance of the house. Fx., that it had electricity, decades before anyone else, and so on. I saw all the original features, too, and I also saw, how he just ripped through the entire house, down to the studs.... The only original feature, I can spot now, is a mantel, standing in the middle of the old livingroom. I can understand, that the house needed isolation, and structural work... But I would have put back all that trim, doors and woodwork, and really tried to be sensitive to the history of the house. But it seems like he wants to create a modern, open concept home in the old shell, and wont really be saving much of the original features... Sad, really...
We do not support Coles channel and the horrid decisions he’s made destroying the home. We don’t understand his following.
@@OurRestorationNation My Hope is that he's not just throwing all the wood & fixtures. Maybe, just maybe, he donated them to someplace that will sell them to the responsible people restoring these pieces of history.
Omgosh! I have followed Kaleb on 2nd Empire Strikes Back from the beginning. I only live 2 hours from him. He is the one that recommended this channel to his audience and why I started watching them. I have also followed Cole the Cornstar since his beginning, because of his farming family. I, watched his latest episode and he tried to say why he wasn’t saving anything and it was not a good explanation for me. I started venting to my husband about the complete heartbreak I had over Cole’s and his wife’s decision to just keep the shell of the house and make a modern home. I’m devastated. 😢 He did talk like he was keeping a few things… but not much, and only if it would fit into their plans.
Gorgeous. And those chimneys!! ❤
Thank you for showing us this treasure❤
My mom had a restaurant on the corner of 17th and s. Main street and I drove by that beautiful home always wondered what it looked like and now I know thank you for showing it.
Really love all the features in this home. Thank you!
I absolutely love the design so good
Thank you for letting us enjoy this piece of history and architecture that is mostly gone here in the US. I truly hope that one day someone would buy the property and restores it to its heyday meaning to the year 1881 - 82 from the basement up to the roof and the gardens which I am sure need rehabilitation as well. It is a diamond in the rough.
Thanku so much for showing us beautiful places 🙏🙏❤️
That's beautiful inside &out. Both properties.
I loved that show and miss watching. Lovely house
I love this house!!
I love this house. Always have.
Wow , what a crazy story about Angelo and his life . Enjoyed the share
How stunning! 💚💜
Gorgeous home, I do remember loving it on Designing Women, and then finding out it's in Arkansas, where I'm from!
The home is lovely the original owner was quite the ladies man thank you for the tour
amazing house
Love the history!
Thank you!
My first comment ever. Love all your videos and love this home.
Michigan here.
Thank you for the history❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
This was so good!! Made even better by knowing the story behind the title.
wow!
Love seeing the inside of such a famous house!
Thank you for telling me about the history of the house. I live in Little Rock and have admired it very much. I did not know Charles Thompson did work on the house. I worked for his architecture firm for 38 years and did not know this. He also designed the state capitol.
The firm is now called Cromwell and has been active in LR since the civil war.
Love this house so much, thank you for showing it to us!!
Wow, what a treat to see the Sugarbaker house.🥰
I love victorian second empire houses! ❤
Just beautiful!!
Loved the tour❤
I always enjoy your excellent commentary on the lovely properties you show and enjoy learning something from each video. I grew up in Arkansas--still the home of my heart.
Thank you!! You always do such a nice job showing us these beautiful homes!!
Beautiful home. I have never heard of the tv show but that doesn’t matter. What a story….
So beautiful!
Thank you for sharing!
So interesting!
It’s so wonderful to see this house intact. So many houses from this time have been destroyed.
Thanks for a great history lesson and tour. I always assumed that house was in Atlanta…
Thanks for the definition of a pier mirror, never knew!
Whoa! That mantel is off the charts! Thank you for all the great house tours, it really is such a treat to watch your videos!!!
What a crazy life he had! The home is beautiful, stunning! I loved when they would show the outside of the house on Designing Women, loved that show, didn't realize that was in Little Rock. Wish you would have been able to snag her back then.
Oh My Thank You So Much for this Lovely Critique Showing of such a Gorgeous Home Well Done I want lie i kept looking for a Plaque a Picture Anything to honour The Sugar Bakers ❤
Architecture looks great 👍
That wood floor is amazing
Thanks for this wonderful information! 💕
Love love love😊
That Staircase! 😍
I " ALWAYS" LOVED THOSE 2 SIDE BY SIDE HOUSES EVEN WHEN THEY WERE IN RUINS NEARLY around 1974. ALL MY FRIENDS thought I WAS NUTS BUT I was a visionary❗❗❗❗💛⭐⭐⭐💖
I lived in Little Rock for many years & took visitors by the house. Also went to a few parties there. It’s beautiful. I miss Little Rock!
C'est très magnifique. J'adore
One of my favorite styles of old homes. I love Empire style and Got his style. Of course and witch hat Victorian homes. Marre house stunning!
Love the staircase!
OMG!!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Kevin and Laine, this was such an incredible home tour!!! Thank you so very much for making this home’s interior so enjoyable to see!!! Such amazing craftsmanship and history!!! As always, y’all did an excellent job!! 👏🏻
Dorothy Blum Cooper-
The Barrow House & Gardens of Louisburg
The stories of the Memphis Marre and beyond! He was a trip! I wonder if the Marre's were ever brought up in Designing Women?? Lovely venue for weddings with those amazing mantles for backdrop.
wow sublime
I watched the show with my mom growing up. She would love to see the house.
Thanks for the tour! I actually have a painting of the Villa Marre hanging in my living room. So I’ve always wanted to know what it looked like inside!
Regarding my past comments:
I never intended to disregard your channel’s guidelines….”Teardown is my nickname and Money Pit is what I call my girlfriend. I LOVE your work!!
Beautiful 🤩
I just luv u guys n the houses u show
❤ ~I LOVE it! 😮
Thank you!! I still watch DR and love this house!!
This is so fascinating
There was such a blatant lack of architectural integrity on the TV show I knew it would be very different inside. This is better than I thought it would be. Thanks for the tour!
They just used the home for exterior shots, I believe the show was filmed on a soundstage.
@@KC-ip3uzYes, they all are. But still, the producers/designers could do a better job.
Awesome video.
I'd say infamous! What a story! Original or not, those parquet floors are gorgeous. The autumn colors on that second fireplace just glow. And the pier mirror! I can only imagine what other decor items of this level may have existed in the house before the remodel in 1910. I'd forgotten that the home was in Little Rock, not Georgia, but this is a definite plus, since it means you have more personal knowledge of the place. I would like to respectfully submit one correction: the carved figures on the main fireplace are winged lions (the symbol of Venice and other areas of Italy). Griffins (or gryphons) have long been associated with my family and I've incorporated a number of them in my home and garden decor (okay, I also collect them because they're cool). They typically have an eagle's head, wings, and front feet, with a lion's body. On occasion they may have a snake for a tail. One of my favorites is from John Tenniel's illustration from Alice In Wonderland. :) This tour was such a treat! Thank you.
You left out ANTHONY!!!
Meshach Taylor💕
Ummm.. give me some of that gracious elegance! Irresistible!
Another great video, Laine and Kevin! Blessings to you both on your upcoming March tours, hoping to be with you in 2025. Keep up the great architectural restorative work!