Backstory: The Morpurgo Mansion Was Sag Harbor’s Grey Gardens

Morpurgo House
Dan’s Papers

In the 1990s, two women who lived alone in a mansion on Union Street in Sag Harbor began making news. They were sisters. Their father, Baron-Dr. Attilio Giacomo “Jack” Morpurgo, a wealthy physician, had died and left the house to them in his will together with sufficient funds to pay its expenses far into…

Backstory: How Topping Rose House Took Shape in Bridgehampton

Topping Rose House
Dan’s Papers

In the 1840s, two mansions in the Greek Revival style were built across from one another in the center of downtown Bridgehampton. Whaling in Sag Harbor was bringing prosperity to the community. And these mansions were built by two prosperous friends and businessmen for their families. Besides the main road going through the Hamptons…