A French Château Could Be Your Dream Home—If You Can Put It Back Together

In November 2020, Alisanne Frew, a Paris-based antiques dealer specializing in fine salvaged stone, was alerted by text message to a rare find: a superb 19^th-century Bordeaux-area château was for sale.

Built with the same type of limestone used for the Unesco-listed historic center of Bordeaux, the two-story château—at 46 feet high and 133 feet wide—had beautiful proportions and refined classical detailing. The catch? It had been disassembled some three decades earlier and was stacked on pallets in a warehouse in southwest France. And the offer was only for its four outer walls.