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Feb 15, 2017 · By Alexandra Macon. February 15, 2017. Courtesy Everett Collection. Grey Gardens, the seven-bedroom estate at 3 West End Road in East Hampton that once belonged to Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s aunt...
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Jul 5, 2023 · The fashion entrepreneur has restored the East Hampton landmark with bold confidence, singular style, and a little swagger. See how she preserved the original design and architecture while adding contemporary comfort and glamour to the historic estate.
- Phillips Ownership
- Hill Ownership
- Meet The Edies
- Life at Grey Gardens in 1950s and 1960s
- The Town Raid
- The Maysles Brothers' Film
- The Post-Documentary Years
- The Bradlee-Quinn Years
- The Lange Years
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Though its silver screen debut thrust Grey Gardens into the spotlight, the home has been the subject of rumors and gossip since before it was even built. Two years after purchasing the lot at 3 West End Road in 1895, F. Stanhope Phillips and his wife, newspaper heiress Margaret Bagg Phillips, commissioned renowned architect Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe ...
Mr. Hill's wife, Anna Gilman Hill, was an acclaimed gardener, and she quickly transformed the grounds of their new summer cottage into a sprawling oasis. Most notably, she imported ornate concrete walls from Spain to enclose the garden, which she filled with climbing roses, lavender, phlox, and delphinium. From her garden, a view of the surrounding...
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (aka Big Edie) was born in 1895 to an ultra-wealthy judge and his wife. Major John Vernou Bouvier Jr. spread the family mythology that they were descendants of French nobility, a fictional narrative likely propagated out of Gilded Age vanity. Big Edie had three siblings, big brother William Sergeant Bouvier (who died of al...
Big Edie had a lover named Gould Strong, who was a musician and likely lived (at least part-time) at the mansion, during the '40s, but they had parted ways by the early 1950s. In 1952, Little Edie continued to pursue a career in show business while living at the Barbizon Hotel in New York City. She even met a famous Broadway producer who invited he...
In 1971, the town of East Hampton ordered a raid on Grey Gardens, which many considered uninhabitable, and argued that it was a safety hazard. The Suffolk County Board of Health mandated that the Beales clean up Grey Gardens and threatened to evict them if they didn't. According to artist Peter Beard, then boyfriend of Lee Radziwill, the inspectors...
When filming officially began in 1973, Big Edie and Little Edie had moved two twin beds into one upstairs bedroom that was easier to heat than the primary bedroom. The two did virtually everything in there, including cooking on a small bedside hotplate (and letting their cats nibble off it). Capturing their life in this room and the beautiful lands...
Of course, with fame comes public scrutiny and attention, so to this day many fans wonder what exactly caused the women to succumb to this lifestyle, aside from sheer eccentricity. There are a few viable theories that attempt to understand them (some of the most compelling being black mold and toxoplasmosis), but it's all armchair theorizing, and w...
The razzle-dazzle of Grey Gardens cannot be overstated. Even in its disrepair, anyone with an imagination could envision its illustrious potential. In 1979, the writer Sally Quinn and her husband, Ben Bradlee, of Washington Post fame, came to see the ruins, even though the real estate agent refused to go inside with them. Bradlee was allergic to ca...
Quinn sold the home for more than $15 million to Liz Lange (who had rented the property the summer of 2015), a maternitywear designer and creative director of the breezy clothing brand Figue who gained success in the early aughts. Lange is also known more recently for her work on a podcast about her family that she created with reporter Ariel Levy ...
Learn about the iconic mansion in the Hamptons that inspired a documentary film and a Broadway musical. Discover its Gilded Age origins, its connection to the Kennedy family, and its transformation from a dilapidated eyesore to a luxury home.
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Sep 2, 2020 · Grey Gardens was a critical success and became a documentary classic. But Pam Beale, who met Edie in 1982 when Pam married Edie's nephew Chris, believes what the film misses is just how much the ...
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Aug 31, 2022 · Author Sally Quinn during an interview with host Johnny Carson on September 10th, 1975. So, on that fateful day, Little Edie gave Quinn a warm welcome, singing "'welcome to Grey Gardens,' as ...
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Grey Gardens (estate) / 40.9376; -72.216144. Grey Gardens is a 14-room [1] house at 3 West End Road and Lily Pond Lane in the Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. It was the residence of the Beale family from 1924 to 1979, including mother and daughter Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale from 1952 to ...
Sep 4, 2021 · Sept. 4, 2021. When Liz Lange walks you through Grey Gardens — the East Hampton home made famous by the 1975 documentary that showcased its eccentric inhabitants living in transcendent squalor...
