Residence

As a man who practically lived at his laboratory, Thomas A. Edison should really appreciate a spectacular home in Indiana that combines work with play and blends the look of the late nineteenth century with the technology of the twenty-first.

Mr. Edison would feel right at home in this stately turn-of-the-century English country manor. Yet, as the man praised for creating one of the first modern research laboratories, Mr. Edison might be most intrigued with the way the spacious home functions as an up-to-the-minute "living laboratory" for user-friendly entertainment technologies, while still providing an ideal location for raising three sons, entertaining friends and family, holding fundraising events, and serving as one base of operations for the owner.

The unique home in Greater Indianapolis was created by Scott A. Jones, whose inventions and innovative technologies are used by more than a half-billion people globally. Like Edison, Scott constantly looks for unique solutions to problems, creates new companies, finds financial partners to reach the mass market, and adapts technologies from one field to another in order to simplify people's lives. Scott uses workspaces at home, in transit and at the office as he oversees groundbreaking technology companies, his charitable foundation, and several other organizations.

His residence has been likened to a high-budget Hollywood movie set. A visitor can whiz down the 28-foot slide, watch coral-reef fish in the aquarium, look over the balcony into the imposing 33-foot-high great room, laugh in one bathroom at the "knight" holding a roll of bathroom tissue at the end of his sword, or become totally immersed in the powerful sights and sounds of a movie shown in the ornate, 20-seat home theater.

Photo on left by E. Anthony Valainis, Indianapolis Monthly