'Gatsby' place joins doomed mansions list
Photo credit: John Dunn | Bert Brodsky is seeking to demolish the deteriorating Land's End estate in Sands Point and divide the property into five parcels for custom homes. The mansion is said to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home in The Great Gatsby. (Feb. 15, 2011)
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The once-grand white house watches over Long Island Sound from the tip of Sands Point, its days numbered.
Lands End, the 25-room Colonial Revival mansion that local lore says was F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home in "The Great Gatsby" faces demolition this month.
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