{"id":8305,"date":"2025-10-12T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:18:00","slug":"single-mom-bought-an-abandoned-hotel-for-5000-what-she-found-in-the-penthouse-was-worth-180m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=8305","title":{"rendered":"Single Mom Bought an Abandoned Hotel for $5000, What She Found in the Penthouse Was Worth $180M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"202\">When Claire Donovan saw the abandoned Riverside Grand Hotel, everyone else saw a ruin. She saw a second chance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"315\">Divorced, raising her son alone, she bought the place at auction for $5,000. Inside was rot, mold \u2014 and hope.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"317\" data-end=\"420\">While others told her to give up, she rebuilt piece by piece. Then she found a locked penthouse door.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"482\">Inside: a trunk filled with paintings signed <em data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"480\">E. Sargent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"484\" data-end=\"573\">An appraiser\u2019s verdict stunned her \u2014 original John Singer Sargents, worth $180 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"575\" data-end=\"640\">Five years later, the restored hotel reopened as an art center.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"769\">Her son asked, \u201cDo you ever miss the old days?\u201d<br data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"692\" \/>She smiled at the grand staircase.<br data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"729\" \/>\u201cNo. This is what it was meant to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When Claire Donovan saw the abandoned Riverside Grand Hotel, everyone else saw a ruin. She saw a second chance. Divorced, raising her son alone, she bought the place at auction for $5,000. Inside was rot, mold \u2014 and hope. While others told her to give up, she rebuilt piece by piece. Then she found &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}