Taylor Dayne's former Lloyd Harbor home for sale
The Charles Homer Davis House, once owned by music artist Taylor Dayne, is on the market for nearly $2.9 million. Credit: Dynamic Media Solutions/Frank Urso; Getty Images/Dia Dipasupil
A Victorian-era home once owned by music artist Taylor Dayne, records show, is on the market for nearly $2.9 million.
The light-blue sided Lloyd Harbor home, identified as the Charles Homer Davis House, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Property records show the home was owned by Leslie Wunderman, Dayne's given name, in the early 1990s. A National Register of Historic Places registration form also states Dayne once owned the home. The form, submitted in 2006, describes the circa-1869 house as "a clapboard-clad, three bay, double pile, two and one-half story, Second Empire-style house resting on an elevated brick and stone foundation."
Listed for $2.875 million, the house has six bedrooms, 4½ bathrooms and sits on a 2-acre parcel.
"This is one of those absolutely stately, truly one-of-a-kind pieces of art," said listing agent Sari Eidelkind, who has co-listed the property with Joyce Mennella and Elena D'Agostino for Lucky to Live Here Realty.
The house measures more than 6,000 square feet. Credit: Dynamic Media Solutions/Frank Urso
Today, the house has a wraparound porch and covers over 6,000 square feet, Eidelkind said. Taxes on the parcel, which falls within the Cold Spring Harbor Central School District, total $29,261.
The property includes a detached garage that accommodates two cars, as well as a heated in-ground pool.
"It has been beautifully restored," Eidelkind said. "You have these beautiful, stained glass original doors — doors and windows, a lot of original detail, with the moldings and the woodwork and the glass."
The kitchen. Credit: Dynamic Media Solutions/Frank Urso
Throughout the home, various rooms run the gamut of wood flooring: parquet floors, patterned wood floors of deep walnut and lighter birch. In the kitchen and breakfast nook — where the walls wear rainbow-hued birds resting on wavy tree branches — the floor is a marbled checkerboard.
"There are fireplaces in most of the rooms," Eidelkind added.
The fireplaces are not functional, though the seller once intended to convert them from wood-burning to gas, Eidelkind said.
Throughout the home, rooms run the gamut of wood flooring. Credit: Dynamic Media Solutions/Frank Urso
The primary bedroom, along with three others, are on the second floor. From the primary bedroom there is access to a space the current homeowner has used as an art studio, Eidelkind said. The remaining three bedrooms are on the third floor, along with a family room and bathroom.
All the bathrooms and the kitchen have radiant heat, Eidelkind said, and the home has central air conditioning and a generator. There is an unfinished basement.
"It really is something that's absolutely spectacular and deserves to be showcased to everyone," Eidelkind said.
Arielle Dollinger joined Newsday as a staff reporter in 2022. Previously, she covered local and national news as a freelancer for The New York Times, Newsday and other outlets.
