FUN FACT

I always pass this home in Oakville and wonder who lives there and what do they do? I wasn't sure if it was a resident or office building. This is what I discovered.

THE HOUSE THAT BEER BUILT
1150 Lakeshore Road East

The owner: Hugo Powell, ex–big shot at Interbrew and Labatt.
The house: Powell, with the help of Gold Coast real estate king Christopher Invidiata, cobbled together three adjacent lots to assemble a property big enough for Powell’s outsize vision, at a cost of $50 million. The 47,000-square-foot house is an homage to Anne Boleyn’s ancestral home. It includes a bowling alley, gym, sauna, dance floor, movie theatre, library with spiral staircase, wine cellar, chapel, tennis court and pool house that doubles as a residence for the in-laws. Powell named the estate Chelster Hall, but Oakvillians call it “the beer house.”