Grey Gardens

The East Hampton Historical Society will hold its 38th annual House & Garden Tour, celebrating five well-known historic houses, including the Grey Gardens, over Thanksgiving weekend. “From East Hampton Village to the Devon Colony, the Historical Society’s annual House Tour offers a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse inside some of our town’s most storied residences,” the announcement from the…
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This lovely house, part of the Ocean Avenue historic district, was sold by comedian Chevy Chase in 2001. (The price then was $10.1 million, in case you’re wondering.) It was designed in the Shingle Style by well regarded East Hampton architect Joseph Greenleaf Thorp, best known for Grey Gardens, around 1899. Brothers Frederick G. Potter…
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From a lonely lighthouse on a windswept shore where a drowned girl whispers, to an ancient home where ghosts dance, these are the most spooky stories we could find about the Hamptons.

Despite many celebrity sales in the Hamptons this year, it was a dud year for blockbuster deals. The biggest sale of the year was just $31 million.

It’s all about cranberry bogs, wild turkeys, and the sagabon in this edition of the Hamptons Index. Happy Thanksgiving!

Sally Quinn, owner of the fabled Grey Gardens in East Hampton, has accepted an offer on the property. Last asking price was $18 million.

Everyone knows and loves Grey Gardens–and AmEx, it seems, has rented the property for summer events.

Welcome back! If you fancy city people have been too busy to pay attention to what’s been going on in Hamptons real estate, let’s get you up to speed.

The Hamptons is filled with famous homes—famous because they’re old and historic, or because they’re enormous, or beautiful, or because they’ve had celebrity owners. Other Hamptons homes are infamous; notorious parties have been held there or tragic events occurred, or they’re simply filled with squalor. Let’s take a look at some of the best known…
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Grey Gardens is not only one of the most famous estates in East Hampton, it’s one of the loveliest, with a truly stunning exterior and summery, old-school-elegant interiors. And it’s now available for sale for the first time in almost 40 years: It’s listed by Corcoran’s Michael Schultz and Susan Ryan asking $19.995 million. The history of the storied…
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