Visualize waking up just ways absent from your own mile-very long seashore, only 35 miles from midtown Manhattan.
That is accurately what Copper Beech Farm, in Greenwich, CT, offers. That is, if you have $150 million.
The state’s most pricey house is listed with Leslie McElwreath and Joseph Barbieri, of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty – Greenwich Brokerage.
The property last hit the current market in 2014, when it reportedly bought for $120 million—a drop from its preliminary $190 million asking cost.
The estate was created in the 1890s and is dwelling to hundreds of copper beech trees, as its title indicates. It is Greenwich’s premier waterfront parcel and possibly the premier in the full tri-condition spot of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, says McElwreath.
The 50-acre house is perched 40 feet above drinking water on a private peninsula with Very long Island Sound views, together with a non-public island.
Although the island is undeveloped, that is component of the attraction.
“You can row out and have your picnic and, in the evening, observe the sunset,” states McElwreath.
Integrated in the compound is a 13,519-square-foot, 8-bedroom, eight-tub property at the close of an 1,800-foot cobblestone driveway. Nearly every area in the household presents superbly framed water views.
Storied estate
In 1893, New York Town native John Hamilton Gourlie acquired the land and crafted the principal household.
His children inherited the property just after his loss of life and later bought it to Harriet Lauder Greenway, whose father helped Andrew Carnegie generate the company later regarded as U.S. Steel.
She expanded the house to close to 100 acres and turned it into a working farm. Right after her death, it was reportedly offered for $7.5 million in a non-public transaction to timber tycoon John Rudey. The latest entrepreneurs purchased the place in 2014.
Irrespective of the home’s age, it isn’t a revenue pit or desperate for a renovation. Everything has been completely modernized.
“The loved ones has introduced the residence again to lifestyle and preserved it,” states McElwreath. “It’s as superior as new in that it feels like the unique dwelling. They did hundreds of thousands of pounds of work.”
That features updates to the plumbing, electrical, kitchen area, and baths.
Oak paneling, fireplaces, and plaster friezes are among the the preserved historical particulars. The major rooms boast 12-foot ceilings.
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Gracious grounds
Other buildings contain a stone carriage household (that includes a clock tower and a single-bed room garage apartment, moreover auto storage), a three-bed room gatehouse, original milking stalls, and a pool property.
Also on home are a 75-foot-very long heated pool, spa, grass tennis court, two greenhouses, an apple orchard, and two beach locations.
In accordance to the Wall Avenue Journal, if the property sells for its $150 million record cost, it will rank as one particular of the maximum-ever residential genuine estate transactions in the U.S.
Greenwich is an affluent city with a population of about 63,000. Folks are drawn right here for the “high high-quality of existence,” claims McElwreath. “It’s a wonderful place to increase a household.”
And she thinks potential potential buyers see it as a place to unwind.
“It is a holiday retreat all on its possess, after you go by way of the gates,” she claims.
