Long Island’s Golden Costa still shines, although in a more moderate way than when “The Gratsby” was published 100 years ago.
The novel, which celebrates its centenary this week, develops in the gigantic mansions of the coast of Tony North. While some of the colossal houses of the time remain, the atmosphere is less debaucharosa than it was on F. Scott Fitzgerald day.
In 1924, when Fitzgerald was completing his first draft, the speed limit on state highways was 30 mph, and Hampton’s was an agitated Schlep, even the domain of twisted fishermen and potato farmers with old Dutch names.
The “IT” places for Hotsy-Totsy Houpla embraced friendly villages for travelers in the sound of Long Island, where the children and grandchildren of the golden industrial barons and the respectability of the newly attacking magnates of the age of jazz played.
At its peak, the Gold Coast, which extends from Great Neck to Northport, had approximately 1,200 mansions, almost half or that were placed in 50 acres or more. Great families, such as Vanderbilts, Astors, Guggenheims, Roosevelts, Hearts and Whitneys, called these huge houses at home.
They were outsourced egos. Forty to 60 rooms were the standard, and many had more than 90. There were exaggerated services in abundance, from lake size pools set in formal gardens to equestrian parks and sunk tennis courts.
Today, there are less than a third of the ancient mansions. Most have been razed to give way to a new construction. Or those who are still standing, only a few boxes are private residences.
The artist Irene Vultaggio and her husband, the multimillionaire of ice tea from Arizona, Don Vultaggio, reside in an extensive mansion of French Chateau style immediately next to the Sands Point lighthouse, which he owns, in northern Hempstad.
“I live in Daisy’s house,” Irene told the post. “My house is the house with the lighthouse … [Gatsby] I would look home, and there would be the green light. “
The Vultgios built the house in the 1990s. The property was previously the site of the legendary beacon towers.
When “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, the house was owned by Publishing Leviathan William Randolph Hearst. He was demolished in 1945 after Hearst returned the house to the bank for fiscal purposes.
Despite its proximity to the lighthouse, Fitzgerald scholars believe that the home was more likely to be the inspiration for Gatsby’s mega-mota instead of Daisy’s.
Created for the socialite widow Alva Smith Belmont Vanderbilt by Hunt & Hunt between 1917 and 1918, the estate of approximately 140 rooms was a “Gothic fantasy”, writes the historian of architecture Richard Chaafee, with towers and towers of Pinnishing Seville.
“It was a colossal issue for any standard,” writes Fitzgerald in the great novel. “It was an objective imitation of an Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower aside, whipping new under a thin ivy and a marble pool, and more than forty garden and garden acres. It was Gatsby’s mansion.”
When Baz Luhrmann needed an architectural inspiration for his 2013 adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, he looked for Becon Towers and Old Westbury Gardens, the old property of the steel heir John Shaffer PHIPPS. But the film was filmed real in Sydney, Australia.
Others argue that Fitzgerald obtained his great ideas from the castle of Oheka, the largest private house in New York and the second largest in the United States, behind Biltmore Estate from Vanderbilt.
Located in the West Hills section of Huntington, the 127 rooms and 109,000 square feet was completed in 1919 by the Financial Otto Hermann Kahn. In the 1920s, he headed to luxurious parties for celebrities and heads of state. In 1939, several years after Kahn’s death, and plagued by debts, he sold to the New York Sanitation Department as a “Super Department Luxury Field Club” for the 20,000 employees of the department. He was “Sanita.”
During the last 25 years or so, it works as a hotel and a wedding place. Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin hooked there in 2010.
Regardless of where Gatsby lived, according to Vultaggio, the Gold coast is not like the Bacanalia of the Sowing Society of Champagne, it was on Fitzgerald Day.
Rather, it is where business titans such as Ken Langone, Aby Rosen and Louis Bacon come to really escape.
“It’s calm,” he said. “I don’t have to impress anyone. I can live my life under the radar. I am in pajamas all day in my garden. If people come here, I tell you that I am the gardener. It’s nice.”
The prices of the mansions in the area are equally discreet. At a time when sales of $ 100 million are becoming routine in the East End, a $ 10 million agreement in Gold Coast is strange.
The average sale price in the area for the last quarter of 2024 was only $ 1.3 million, according to Douglas Elliman.
Even so, when the right house reaches the market, it has an impact and the inventory is limited.
In December, Erchless, a 92 -acre farm and 26 rooms in 75 Post Road in Old Westbury, sold for $ 21 million that establishes a record for sale of all time for a residence in both Nassau County and Old Westbury.
The Georgian -style brick mansion was built for Howard PHIPPS, son of Henry PHIPPS, Jr., a partner of the company Carnegie Steel of Andrew Carnegie, in 1936. He sold with a pool, cabanas, a tennis court, Greenhouse and Potting Sheds, a stable horse, a superintendent house and a house of a pilot ranger container.
The most important thing is that its award -winning RhodDendron Garden “is the best of its kind,” which provides the New York Botanical Garden, said Maria Babaev or Douglas Elliman, who represented the buyer in the agreement without ERCH.
He pointed out that while the area is no longer an oscillating scene, those who buy a thesis property appreciate the fitzgerald connection.
“Gatsby’s lifestyle was fiction, but on the north coast, she is a real daughter,” he told The Post. “And the people who doses are very excited about the charm of the old world. They are not so different from who I was buying here 100 years ago. They want to create a multigenerational legacy.”
The best schools, a discreet atmosphere and commutability are the main attractions for the area. Many of its customers bounce between an apartment in the city, a farm in Gold Coast and a summer playground in the Hamptons.
They do not sacrifice the modern comforts of creatures for Legacy’s life. Buyers of large old farms that generally instill cutting -edge technology and fixed well -being spaces.
Exclusivity is also a factor, said Maggie Keats, a Gold Coast broker with Elliman. In recent years, it has sold several local farms, including the mansion of $ 11 million in the style of Normandy, in the late 1920s for the railway heiress Mary Harriman Rumsey in Sands Point and the home of stars of $ 6.5 million Sands Point.
“There are not a lot of thesis houses,” he lamented. “They were separated over the years, sub -divided, demolished for fiscal or transformed reasons.”
Villa Carola, the old Isaac Guggenheim farm, is now the town club of Sands Point, and Eagle’s Nest, the old house of William K. Vanderbilt, now is the Museum and Planetary of Vanderbilt.
“The new houses are beautiful, but these houses were built differently,” Keats said. “There were no expenses saved and have a presence of place because they are in their property in their property. The trees have had the opportunity to mature. The landscape is beautiful. The integrity of the construction is very special.”
A Fitzgerald’s Time relic is on sale in 1985-4 Cedar Swamp Road in Brookville. Known as Haut Bois, it was built in 1916 for the architect and collaborator of Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., and inspired the Palace of Versailles. The seven -bedroom house is asking for $ 14.9 million with Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty.
Also in the market is Mini Oheka, a wedding gift given by Otto Kahn to his son in 1936 and was located in 491 Muttontown Road in Muttontown. The nine -bedroom French -style chateau is located at 10.4 acres and appears for only $ 3.9 million with Gale.
But if you are looking for a Jay Gatsby orgies, go more to the east, Vultaggio said.
“I am Cinderella and I live in a castle,” he said. “[But] The people here do not live that crazy life as in the Hamptons. I hate Hamptons. “
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