Tasteful Friends: Revolutionary War elegance in Long Island Sound ($19,5000,500)

Not going to lie. I absolutely love it. Something out of a dream…

*should read $19,500,000

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but darling, I know that you and your husband Juan-Ignatius are trying to have your second IVF child and need a bigger home, but I won't have any son of mine, , much less my grandchildren begotten of your same-sex marriage which gives me anguish to this day I might add, live on The Sound!

I like it. Especially the solarium for some reason.

It looks like they scooped up a building from an old eastern college and put it there.

I would be required to immediately replace the furnishings in the formal dining room, and in the breakfast nook/room. Oh, and the bedding is drab. But apart from that, I'd buy it as where is. Imagine being trapped in there during a three day winter howler with your generators keeping everything marginally up to snuff short of randomly flickering lights now and then. With lots of food. And other stuff. A dream.

I think that staircase with the lanterns is bigger than my entire apartment.

Some of the photo staging for the listing (I’m assuming) is silly, and some of the decor is blah.

Otherwise, wouldn’t change a thing. Heavenly.

Oh the joy I would take in furnishing all that lovely space ! Its a stunning house,and looks very well maintained .

It is TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND square feet!

A bit much.

Imagine all the people who died in it.

The house is terrific, and very little fucked up with alterations.

Fuck all about the 1910 house has anything to do with the Revolutionary War, it's only that there was battle on the property somewhere.

The kitchen is dreary, but could be improved easily without loads of money. The bathrooms are straight out of Home Depot but who cares? They're okay. I like the sturdy 1910 assuredness of the house, and the variety of spaces and finishes, nothing too heavy handed. The simplicity of the bedrooms is perfect.

Haul away all that terrible "staging" furniture and props and it's a great house.

Honestly it’s would be a challenge to live comfortably in a space that huge. Still it’s seems lovely.

[quote]Imagine all the people who died in it.

And?

The house was only built in 1910. Surely you know someone who lives in a place that old or older? From 1910 to sometime in the 1950s it was normal to die in one's home. Like the rest of the Gold Coast estates, it was initially intended to be occupied seasonally. Probably it's first half century saw it occupied in season and otherwise only occasionally, so despite the listed 13 bedrooms, the days of country houses brimming with overnight guests mostly died off with the 1929 crash and decidedly by WWII. Probably only a relative handful of people died in the present Tudor Revival house.

There was an earlier house built 1879/80 on the site, and before that the late 18thC fortification. But what's the point --to a sane person-- of trying to tot up all the people whommight have died in or around the property since...ever?

A gazillionaire will buy it up and occupy it one weekend a year. Full staff.

Nothing "Revolutionary War" about it. Slavishly tudor.

[quote]Harold! That was your last date!

Thanks for that, OP!

I love the safe! Seems to have sold for 5M in 2019... they must have done a lot of work on it in the last 5 years!

Forbidding.