Images of this building have long made their way around the internet, often calling it the ‘Redneck Mansion’ for lack of knowledge about its actual origins. In point of fact, this is an elaborate theater set for a showing of the Anton Chekov play Ivanov in Amsterdam. The original confusion came in part from partial sets of these images circulating the web in which the shots of the audience area were omitted. So, what would appear to be incredible backwater innovation is in fact a calculated piece of theatrical construction – though that revelation in no way detracts from the strange beauty of this elaborate recycled set design. (Source)