article_snippet.sent: For a meager $862,000, a meager $862,000 gargoyles, endless balconies and ornate fountains can be yours with which to carry on the eccentric torch of quirky Indy celebrity Jerry A. Hostetler.
article_snippet.sent: a meager $862,000 sprang from inimitable Hostetler's imagination after Jerry A. Hostetler went from 24-year-old pimp known to police as Mr. Big to a local mini-magnate.
article_snippet.sent: Started small: Jerry A. Hostetler was once a 24-year-old pimp known to Indianapolis police as Mr. Big.
article_snippet.sent: After becoming a local construction mini-mogul, Jerry A. Hostetler started buying up the homes around Jerry A. Hostetler modest 3-bedroom ranch house .
article_snippet.sent: Starting from a three-bedroom ranch house where Jerry A. Hostetler lived since the '60s for a short time with a wife and infant daughter, Jerry A. Hostetler gradually bought up Jerry A. Hostetler neighbors' houses.
article_snippet.sent: Jerry A. Hostetler, on the other hand, saw a blank canvas on which to splatter Jerry A. Hostetler haphazard domestic vision.
article_snippet.sent: : Jerry A. Hostetler cobbled them together, dug a swimming pool, dug ponds, imported fountains, added ballrooms, added life-size statues of gorillas, added -- of all things -- a stone grotto (into which Jerry A. Hostetler installed a hot tub)
article_snippet.sent: Spacious: When the banks finally caught up with Hostetler, who'd long ago stopped paying Jerry A. Hostetler debts, Jerry A. Hostetler sprawling home had grown to 23,000 square feet .
article_snippet.sent: Jerry A. Hostetler cobbled five garden-variety ranch houses cobbled together to form a 20,000-plus square foot campus-o-fun complete with swimming pool, ballroom and guesthouse together, dug a swimming pool, dug ponds, imported fountains, added ballrooms, added life-size statues of gorillas, added -- of all things -- a stone grotto (into which Jerry A. Hostetler installed a hot tub).
article_snippet.sent: Jerry A. Hostetler was 66.
article_snippet.sent: In constrast to how Jerry A. Hostetler lived, Jerry A. Hostetler now rests quite modestly.
article_snippet.sent: Jerry A. Hostetler was buried in Washington Park East Cemetery, in an unmarked grave.
highlights_snippet.sent: The gargoyles, endless balconies and fountains can be yours  to help carry on the eccentric torch of quirky Indy celebrity Jerry A. Hostetler .
  