FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- People who live in glass houses might not get the asking price.





That's the reality facing the owners of Chalan Farm, a 34,000-square-foot glass mansion hidden on 48 wooded acres near Princeton. Made of commercial-grade tinted glass, the house has been on the market since last July. List price: $12 million.



Owners John and Prudence Boulton "were disappointed, not depressed" when their dream house failed to sell at auction in May, said Thomas E. Hora of Prudential Fox & Roach in New Hope, Pa., who is assisting in the sale. It failed to attract even the minimum bid of $3 million.



John Boulton, a retired Columbia Electronics CEO, indulged his whims when he built the 420-foot-long ranch, patterned after designs by architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. With building costs at nearly $10 million, the house isn't done yet, Hora said. Only three of nine bathrooms are finished, he said, and the temporary kitchen, while it works, isn't the $150,000 kitchen the owners planned.



The Boultons had barely obtained a Certificate of Occupancy in 2000 when they began rethinking their location. Prudence Boulton's bad back, sustained during a career as a horsewoman, persuaded the couple to live closer to her Manhattan doctors.



The house is not made entirely of glass. The eight-car heated underground garage is constructed of conventional materials. The 17,000-square-foot first floor, however, - including bedrooms and baths - is enclosed by floor-to-ceiling panels of green-hued glass, separated by metal supports.



"It really is glass from one end to the other, said Carl Carter, a spokesman for J.P. King Auction Co., which handled the auction. "You can stand in the front and watch a squirrel in the back."

That's cool, crazy, stupid, unique, and confusing.

and why is that an only in NJ type of thing? I don't exactly see the insult. They had a dreamhouse, and just like most people who wind up having to sell their dreams they didn't get the price they wanted.



That is far rom an "only in NJ" type of thing, hell it happens in the cars for sale section everyday.



kevin.

People in NJ have NO sense of humor: Must come from living so close to the Chemical Plants!

i have a sense of humor when something is actually funny.



i rip on my own state all the time.



this just has no connection to being an "only in NJ" type of thing.



It's not my inability to laugh at jokes, it's your inability to make jokes.



kevin.

Good NJ joke:

Why are New Yorkers always so angry?

Because New Jersey is the light at the end of their tunnel!



Bad NJ joke:

NJ sucks because something weird happened there.





Most NJ jokes are just like Honda jokes...you attach the name to something and expect everyone to laugh.

What exit?

I don't get that one either. I've been to a lot of states and they all have exits. Hell, I must've passed 500 exits this weekend alone.

banzai = teh not funny one

The exit joke is from Saturday Nite live (BEFORE MOST OF YOU WERE BORN)