Extraordinary Redcraft on Ox Pasture Lane

Southampton, Redcraft

Redcraft, on Ox Pasture Lane, Southampton, is a fascinating house. Originally called Red Croft, it was built in 1897 by Charles G. Francklyn. Even in an area like Southampton, famous for celebrities and huge personalities, there can be few whose lives rivaled Charles Gilbert Francklyn’s. He was the great grandson of pro-slavery polemicist Gilbert Francklyn,…
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My Hamptons: Jesse Bongiovi

Yumi Matsuo

“Our place in East Hampton is my happy place,” says Jesse Bongiovi, a fact that holds especially true when a glass of wine is in-hand. Bongiovi and his father, Jon Bon Jovi, launched their own rosé label in 2018–Diving into Hampton Water–which went on to be named Best Rosé of 2018 and #83 on the…
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