Web references.</titke> </head> <body> <h3><span class="hdr-lnk"> </span>Web References</h3> <div> <ol class="resume"> <li> <h5><a name="ref319710652"></a>1. Packet Online</h5> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pacpub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7782491&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=426876&rfi=6">www.pacpub.com/site/news.cfm?n</a> - <a rel="nofollow" id="cacheLink_428160873" href="http://cache.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=428160873&page_url=%2f%2fwww.pacpub.com%2fsite%2fnews.cfm%3fnewsid%3d7782491%26BRD%3d1091%26PAG%3d461%26dept_id%3d426876%26rfi%3d6&page_last_updated=4%2f22%2f2003+6%3a17%3a53+PM&firstName=John&lastName=Boulton" target="_blank" title="View ZoomInfo's cached version of this page"> <span style="font-size:11px;color:#008000;">[Cached]</span> </a> <p class="ref-date"> Published on: 4/22/2003 Last Visited: 4/22/2003</p> Prudence and <span class="hl">John Boulton</span> inside their glass mansion, which will be on the auction block shortly at a starting bid of $3 million. <br>...<br> When multimillionaire <span class="hl">John Boulton</span> couldn't sell <span class="hl">his</span> glass mansion for $18 million, <span class="hl">he</span> put it on the block. <br><br> Elaborate, expensive - even ostentatious - homes are nothing unusual in Princeton, but one house (if you can call something the size of a football field a "house") stands out among them all: Prudence and <span class="hl">John Boulton's</span> 420-foot-long glass mansion in Griggstown. <br>...<br> "The point of the place is to allow all the naturalness to go right through the building,"says the 68-year-old <span class="hl">Mr. Boulton</span>, who made <span class="hl">his</span> millions selling entertainment units to some of the world's richest families. "You get a new house every hour because of the way the sun plays through all the glass plates, and the whole show repeats itself at night with the moon." Despite the idyllic setting, the Boultons' home is an architectural anomaly. Visitors often liken it to a corporate headquarters; there's enough light coming in to cause an instant migraine. Even the Boultons seem to have struggled to turn this enormous, over-exposed building into something cozy - only about a quarter of it is presently furnished. All of which may partially explain why the Boultons are trying to get rid of it. Last year, just over two years after moving into their dream home, the Boultons decided to pack up and move back to New York City, ostensibly to be closer to <span class="hl">Mrs. Boulton's</span> doctors. A Princeton native, and former member of the <span class="hl">U.S. Equestrian Team</span>, <span class="hl">Mrs. Boulton</span> has suffered numerous injuries. <br>...<br> <span class="hl">John Boulton</span> started tinkering - mostly with light - when <span class="hl">he</span> was about three years old. At five, <span class="hl">he</span> checked out a heavy book from the library one day and asked <span class="hl">his</span> mother to read it to him. <span class="hl">His</span> sister recalls coming home to see <span class="hl">John</span>, sitting on <span class="hl">his</span> mother's lap, completely absorbed in <span class="hl">his</span> mother's rendering of a textbook on magnetism. <br>...<br> "One of the things that I was able to do professionally," explains <span class="hl">Mr. Boulton</span>, "is work with all of the top engineers and architects that were practicing in the world - the trendsetters - and one of things we were always doing is taking advantage of new materials to build the structures. <br>...<br> An English Tudor in New York City; an Italian-style Villa in Bucks County; and a beach house in Malibu are some of the homes <span class="hl">Mr. Boulton</span> has owned at one time or another before Chalan Farms. The home where <span class="hl">he</span> grew up in Kenton, Ohio, was a simple two-story house. <span class="hl">Mr. Boulton</span> earned an electrical engineering degree from Columbia in 1966. <span class="hl">His</span> father <span class="hl">John</span>, a Notre Dame alum, was also an engineer, and <span class="hl">his</span> mother was a school teacher. <span class="hl">Mr. Boulton's</span> first ventures in the business world were in the broadcasting field - <span class="hl">he</span> was an announcer at <span class="hl">WLW</span> in Cincinnati in the early '50s, and later at <span class="hl">NBC</span> in New York. By marrying <span class="hl">his</span> interest in broadcasting with <span class="hl">his</span> knack for tinkering, <span class="hl">he</span> created the product that earned him <span class="hl">his</span> fortune: a home-wide stereo system that could simultaneously please listeners of divergent tastes in different rooms at the press of a button. The Boulton Stereo System, as it was known (the company was Columbia Electronics), became a staple entertainment item in the homes and mansions of the Rockefellers, the Mellons, Vanderbilts, and DuPonts. Catering to the entertaining needs of the rich and famous forced innovations that <span class="hl">Boulton</span> later capitalized on. "In order to get music out at the gazebo out there, we had to push buttons to do it," <span class="hl">he</span> explains. "Some of the derivatives of those products were the early form of remote controls." <span class="hl">Mr. Boulton</span> retired in the early 1980s and saw most of <span class="hl">his</span> company sold off to the <span class="hl">Ericsson</span>, the Swedish telecommunications company. <span class="hl">He</span> bought the 48-acre property in Griggstown in 1993, but it took an additional four years to get approvals and make topographical improvements on the property for construction to begin. </li> </ol> </div> Copyright © 2007 Zoom Information Inc. All rights reserved. ©Packet Online 2003. </body> </html>