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Dollhouse Worth $8.5 Million Will Be On Display in Columbus Circle

By Gwynne Hogan | November 5, 2015 11:46am
 A dollhouse worth $8.5 million will be on display at the Shops at Columbus Circle starting on Nov. 12.
Asolate Dollhouse Castle
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This $8.5 million dollar home has 29 rooms, but you won't be able to fit in any of them.

An ornate dollhouse, billed as the most expensive dollhouse in the world, will be on display for the first time ever, at the Shops at Columbus Circle from Nov. 12 to Dec. 8 during business hours.

The Asotolat Dollhouse Castle was built in the 1980s by master miniaturist from Colorado Elaine Diehl. It's nine feet tall with 29 rooms, hallways, a Wizard's tower, a wine cellar, a chapel.

The rooms are ornately decorated with about 10,000 miniscule, hand-crafted objects from gold-framed mirrors, oil paintings and tapestries to gold chandeliers and polar bear rugs.

It took more than two years to design and more than 12 years to build, according to the dollhouse website.

The Astolat Dollhouse Castle will be displayed for the public viewing on the second floor mezzanine of the Shops at Columbus Circle at 10 Columbus Circle starting next Thursday.