Imagine waking up just steps from your own mile-long beach and only 35 miles from Midtown Manhattan.
The most expensive property in the state is also listed Leslie McElwreath And Joseph Barbieriby Sotheby’s International Realty – Greenwich Brokerage.
The home last came on the market in 2014 when it reportedly sold for $120 million — down from its original $190 million asking price.
The property was built in the 1890s and, as the name suggests, is home to hundreds of copper beeches. It’s Greenwich’s largest waterfront property and possibly the largest in the entire tri-state area of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, says McElwreath.
The 50-acre property sits 40 feet above water on a private peninsula overlooking Long Island Sound adjacent to a private island.
Although the island is undeveloped, that’s part of its charm.
“You can row out and have a picnic and watch the sunset at night,” says McElwreath.
The property includes a 13,519-square-foot eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom home at the end of an 1,800-foot paved driveway. Almost every room in the house has a beautifully framed view of the water.
Historic property
1893 native of New York City John Hamilton Gourlie bought the land and built the main house.
His children inherited the property after his death and later sold it on Harriet Lauder Greenwaywhose father helped Andrew Carnegie Formation of the company later known as US Steel.
She expanded the property to around 100 acres and turned it into a working farm. After her death, it was reportedly sold to the lumber magnate for $7.5 million in a private transaction John Rudey. In 2014 the current owners bought the place.
Despite the age of the house, it’s not a money pit or desperate for a refurb. Everything has been completely modernized.
“The family has brought the property back to life and preserved it,” says McElwreath. “It’s as good as new as it feels like the original home. They have done millions of dollars of work.”
This includes updates to plumbing, electrical, kitchen and bathrooms.
Oak panelling, fireplaces and stucco friezes are among the preserved historical details. The main rooms have 12 foot ceilings.
entry
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
dining room
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
Kitchen
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
One of the bedrooms
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
Swimming pool
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
tennis court
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
Glasshouse
Daniel Milstein for Sotheby’s International Realty
gracious reasons
Other features include a stone coach house (with clock tower and one bedroom garage apartment and vehicle room), a three bedroom gatehouse, original milking stalls and a pool house.
Also on the property is a 75 foot heated pool, spa, lawn tennis court, two greenhouses, an apple orchard and two beaches.
If sold at its list price of $150 million, the property will be ranked as one of the highest residential real estate transactions in the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal
Greenwich is a prosperous city of about 63,000 people. People gravitate here because of the “high quality of life,” says McElwreath. “It’s a wonderful place to start a family.”
And she thinks potential buyers see it as a place to relax.
“It’s a vacation spot in its own right once you step through the gates,” she says.
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