Land’s End, in Sands Point, Long Island, is rumored to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan’s home in The Great Gatsby. The 20,000-square-foot mansion was designed by Stanford White and built in 1902. The waterfront home has 25 rooms, including 10.5 baths, as well as 10 fireplaces, a pool and poolhouse, a guest cottage and a tennis court, on more than 13 acres of land.
Originally called Keewaydin, the estate was once owned by Herbert Bayard Swope, Pulitzer Prize Winner and executive editor of the New York World newspaper.
After falling into serious disrepair, the property will be torn down this spring and the land subdivided for a private development. Within a few weeks, the house will be gone – no word on what fate awaits the green light at the end of the dock.
“And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over the sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens – finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as through from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy evening…”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image and info courtesy Curbed NY.
No comments:
Post a Comment