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Welcome to Downton. Well, to be fair, this isn’t the famed Highclare Castle, where Downton Abbey was actually filmed, but doesn’t it look pretty close? I mean, that grand staircase alone made me clutch my proverbial 1920s pearls, half expecting to hear Mr. Carson ring the dinner bell as I walked into the Great Room. We visited Darlington Mansion , the property you see here in these photos, last week — a sprawling 12-acre estate in Mahwah, New Jersey, totaling close to 50,000 square feet and it could be all yours for a cool $48 million. (Sigh — someday!) Built in 1902, fashioned after an English castle (ah, Lady Mary would be proud),...