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December 14, 2007

Wait -- HOW many rooms?

The Sun's Dream Home feature today made me do a double-take: It tells the story of Drew Riger, who bought a five-story Mount Vernon house with 56 rooms.

Yes: nearly five dozen.

It's not unusual to find big Baltimore homes chopped up into multiple apartment units, but this seems to take the cake. Riger, not surprisingly, redid the place:

What he has now is a home with 35 rooms and eight bathrooms.

The mind still boggles. Never let it be said that the city is nothing but modest rowhouses.

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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