The Long Island’s golden coast still shines – though in a more submissive way than when “The Great Gatsby” was published 100 years ago.
The novel, which is celebrating its centenary this week, is located in Tony North Shore’s mom. While some of the colossal houses from the era remain, the atmosphere is less inattentive than it was on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s day.
In 1924, when Fitzgerald was completing his first draft, the speed limit on the state highways was 30 km per hour, and the Hamptons were a worn Schlep, still the field of gnarled fish fishermen and potato farmers with old Dutch names.
“IT” points for hotsy-Totsy Hoopla embraced friendly villages of travelers in the Long Island Sound-where children and grandchildren of the gilded era barons and the newly minked jazz sounds went to buy respect.
At its peak, the Golden Coast, which extends from the excellent neck to Northport, had about 1,200 mansions, almost half of which were located in 50 hectares or more. Excellent families, such as Vanderbilts, Astors, Guggenheims, Roosevelts, Hearts and Whitneys, called these large houses at home.
They were external ego. Forty to 60 rooms were the norm, and many had 90s. There were excessive facilities, from lake -size pools located in official gardens up to horse parks and the muted tennis fields.
Today, less than a third of old mansions remain. Most have been destroyed to make roads for new construction. Of those who still stay, only a few dozen are private residents.
Artist Irene Vastaggio and her husband, Arizona Ice Tea billionaire Don Vdomtaggio, reside in a fast French -style French -style manor immediately near Sands Point Lighthouse, which they also own, in North Hempsted.
“I live in Daisy’s house,” Irene Post told. “My house is home with the seed of the seed … so [Gatsby] I would look at my house, and it would have the green light. “
Vultaggios build the house in the 1990s. The property was previously the place of the legendary lantern towers.
At the time of “The Great Gatsby” in 1925, the house was owned by Leviathan William Randolph Hearst. It was destroyed in 1945 after Happy returned the house to the bank for tax purposes.
Despite its proximity to the seeds, Fitzgerald researchers believe it was more likely that the home would be inspiration for Gatsby’s bold mega-manus than Daisy.
Created for the Society, Alva Smith Belmont Vanderbilt by Hunt & Hunt between 1917 and 1918, approximately 140 houses was a “Gothic fantasy”, writes historical architectural Richard Chaphae, with “stunning towers and pinnacles” that borrowed from the medieval palace in Seville.
It was a colossal issue by any standard, “writes Fitzgerald in the brilliant novel.” It was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandi, with a tower on the one hand, developing new under a thin crusty chin, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty hectares of lawn and garden. Was the mansion of Gatsby. “
When Baz Luhrmann needed Architecture inspection for his adaptation for 2013 by interpreting Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, he closed in both Beacon towers and Old Westbury Gardens, formerly the John Shaffer Phipps’s Heritage. But the film was actually filmed in Sydney, Australia.
Others claim that Fitzgerald got his big ideas from the Çeka Castle, the largest private home in New York, and the second largest in the US – after Biltmore Estate of Vanderbil.
Located in the West Hills section of Huntington, Behemoth with 127 rooms, 109,000 square meters was completed in 1919 by financier Otto Hermann Kahn. In the 1920s, she waved with delightful parties for celebrities and heads of state. In 1939, a few years after Kahn’s death, and ruined by debt, she was sold to the New York Sanitary Department as a “Super-De Luxe Country Club” for 20,000 department employees. I was recharged “Sanita”.
For the last 25 years, it has been operated as a hotel and a marriage place. Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were caught there in 2010.
Regardless of where Gatsby lives, according to Vastaggio, the Golden Coast is nothing like the Society with champagne Bacchanalia that was on Fitzgerald Day.
On the contrary, it is where business titans like Ken Langone, Aby Rosen and Louis Bacon come to really save them all.
“Quiet is quiet,” she said. “I don’t need to impress anyone. I can just live my life under the radar. I am in my pajamas all day in my garden. If people come here, I tell them the gardener. Nice beautifully.”
The prices for palaces in the area are just as low. At a time when $ 100m of sale is becoming routine in East End, a $ 10 million agreement on the Golden Coast is rare.
The average sales pricing in the area for the last quarter of 2024 was only $ 1.3 million, according to Douglas Elliman.
However, when the right home hits the market, it makes an impact, and the inventory is limited.
In December, Erchless, a 92 -hectare wealth, with 26 rooms in 75 Post Road at Old Westbury, sold for $ 21 million setting a record of sales at all times for a settlement in both Nassau County and Old Westbury.
Georgian -style brick residence was built for Howard Phipps, Henry Phipps’s son, Jr., partner at Andrew Carnegie’s Carnegie Steel, in 1936. The Chauffeur House with a garage.
Most importantly, his winning garden of Rhododendron Awards is the best of its kind, supplying the New York Botanical Garden, said Maria Babaev from Douglas Elliman, who represented the buyer in the deal without darkness.
She noted that while the area is no longer a rocking scene, those who buy these properties appreciate the Fitzgerald connection.
“Gatsby’s lifestyle was fiction, but on the north coast, it’s a real kind,” she told the post. “And the people who buy these houses are very enthusiastic about the charm of old work. They are not as different from who were buying here 100 years ago. They want to create a very generative heritage.”
High schools, a low -key atmosphere and commuting are the main attractions for the area. Many of its customers dance between an apartment in the city, a wealth on the Golden Coast and a summer playground in the Hamptons.
They do not sacrifice modern conveniences of creatures for heritage living. Buyers of Estate Grand Old usually install the highest technology and broad wellness spaces.
Exclusivity is also a factor, said Maggie Keats, a golden coast broker. In recent years, it has sold Vaornus local assets, including Normandy -style residence construction $ 11 million in the late 1920s by Mary Harriman Rumsey Railway heirs in Sands Point and $ 6.5m Sands Point Home of the Stars and Stripes Forever “John Philip Sousa.
“There are no tons of these houses left,” she mourned. “They parted over the years. They separated, destroyed for tax reasons or turned.”
Villa Carola, the former wealth of Isaac Guggenheim, is now the Village of Sands Point Club, and Eagle’s Nest, the former home of William K. Vanderbil, is now the Museum and Planetarium Vanderbilt.
“The new houses are beautiful, but these houses were built differently,” Keats said. “There was no expensive expense and they have a presence of the country because they are long on their property. The trees have had a chance to bake. The landscape is beautiful.
A relic of Fitzgerald time is currently on sale on the SWamp Cedar 1985-4 road in Brookville. Known as Haut Bois, it was built in 1916 for the architect and associate of Edith Wharton Ogden Codman Jr. and was inspired by the Palace of Versailles. The seven -bedroom house is looking for $ 14.9 million with Daniel Gale Sotheby’s international side.
Also on the market is Mini Ochaka – a wedding gift given by Otto Kahn his son in 1936 and set in 491 Muttown Road in Muttown. French -style nine -bedroom chateau decreases to 10.4 hectares and is ranked for only $ 3.9 million with gale.
But if you are looking for one of Jay Gatsby’s orgies, go further to the east, vastaggio assesert.
“I’m Cinderella and I live in a castle,” she said. “[But] People here don’t live that crazy life as in Hamptons. I hate the hamshtons. “
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