On the eight acres Roundwood stands on in Hunting Valley's Daisy Hill neighborhood, Korey's hosted fundraisers for the Cleveland Ballet and for the Hathaway Brown School where her daughters went. She's had 50-person dinners, pool parties, tennis matches.
It's been on and off the market before, but Korey had in recent years embarked on a campaign to save it from demolition by turning the mansion into condos. On Sunday, for the first time since that campaign, the house hit the market., which Korey said is $100,000 above its lowest listing price. In the past, its highest asking price was nearly $7 million.
Roundwood's size and splendor, as Korey has admitted, may be exactly why it's been tough to sell in the past decade or so. Maintaining 14 bedrooms, 16 baths and nine fireplaces, along with a tennis court and indoor pool, could seem exhausting to couples willing to spend a million more for a more compact property.
A fact that still baffles Korey to this day. The former garages and chauffeur structure across the street have operated as five rental apartments since 1999, even though they don't have the 5-acre requirement as the manor supposedly needs."I still don't get it," Korey said."It's just frustrating.""That's the thing about these old structures. They cannot be duplicated. It's done. Once they're gone, they're gone," she told Scene.