Rich Cribs: Price cut for Old Westbury's Goodyear house, and more
Exterior of the A. Conger Goodyear House in Old Westbury that was recently sold. For Rich Cribs. Credit: HANDOUT/HANDOUT
GOODYEAR REDUCTION. Manhattan interior designer Eric Cohler recently reduced the price of his Old Westbury estate to $4.599 million. Listed on the National Register of Historic Placessince 2003, the glass house was built in 1938 by modernist architect Edward Durell Stone for A. Conger Goodyear, the founder and first president of the Museum of Modern Art. It sits on 5.5-acres of beautifully landscaped property complete with specimen trees and even its own apple orchard. The house had been listed for $4.9 million. “I’ve spent the past four years restoring every detail of the house from the simple to the ridiculous,” says Cohler, adding, “my house hasn’t been fully lived in for twenty years, and now awaits a family who will embrace it and enjoy their home where everything old is new again.” The sale is currently being handled by Emma Iacovone and Janet Mondor of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
CATHY MAHON
NEW LISTING. The 35-acre Cryptomeria Estate in Shinnecock Hills is on the market for $22.5 million. Tracey Holmes, the Prudential Douglas Elliman agent who, along with Paul Brennan, is handling the listing, says the 25-room Georgian mansion overlooks Bullhead Bay and the National Golf Links of America. It was originally built in 1910 for Charles Blair MacDonald, who is considered the father of golf course design. Later, Rose Vanderbilt lived here. The 13 cryptomeria trees that give the estate its name were a gift to her from a Japanese ambassador. Although rumors that F.L. Olmstead, Jr. designed the gardens cannot be confirmed, landscape architects Annette Hoyt Flanders and Rose Standish Nichols were certainly involved. The 22,000-square-foot, 11-bedroom, 8.5-bath mansion has retained much of its orginal detail and is replete marble floors and paneled libraries, and surrounded by several hundred acres of pristine reserve.
LARA EWEN
SOLD! Corcoran agent Susan Breitenbach confirms that a 7,000-square foot home in Sagaponack just sold for $7 million after being on the market for less than six months. Originally priced at $7.5 million, the seven-bedroom, 8.5-bath residence boasts a double living room, an eat-in kitchen, a sauna and a gym, and is a short walk to the ocean. The fully landscaped grounds feature a heated pool and a tennis court, and the property was once home to billionaire Stewart Rahr. Susan and Matthew Breitenbach were the exclusive agents on the sale.
LARA EWEN
