Another contest.
We chose this mansion, called Loch Aerie, outside of Exton, PA.
 

This was the probably the largest, most ornate house we ever built. I took many photos of the mansion, from different angles and vantage points, and used the photos as a reference to build a foamcor model. For a detailed description of the process, go to HOUSE ONE. For gingerbread and icing recipes, go HERE.
 

Below is a small detail, of this extremely detailed gingerbread mansion.

Snowy footprints, and icing boots, on the porch.

Shopping bags, made from hollowed out Starburst candies, and filled with assorted hard candies, to resemble wrapped presents.

Below is the rear of the mansion, which also included a pond, made from melted blue mints, and a cookie dock.

This house won a first prize, but afterwards, nobody seemed interested in keeping it. It sat on a table for a few weeks after Christmas, until one night "a certain dog" decided to eat the rear porch. At the time, we lived in a house in the woods, so we placed the mansion on a tree stump...and left it there for the critters, and the rain. Within a few days there was nothing left, but the cleaned wooden board, with the mansion's perimeter drawn on it.

We still have the little, white icing dog.