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Jul 5, 2023 · Which isn’t to say the past is not present at Grey Gardens. Shortly after purchasing the home in late 2017, the fashion entrepreneur embarked on an extensive restoration of the storied estate, working with architecture firms Ferguson & Shamamian and Bories & Shearron to modernize the operation of the house while preserving much of its original design.
Browse 82 grey gardens mansion photos and images available, ... The Grey Gardens house and pool are seen at the estate in East Hampton, New York, U.S., on Friday, Nov ...
Feb 9, 2017 · Take an exclusive look around the famous estate, which is being offered for nearly $20 million. The seven-bedroom East Hampton estate, built in 1897 and made famous by a documentary about the ...
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Feb 15, 2017 · For the first time since 1979, Grey Gardens, the 7-bedroom estate at 3 West End Road in East Hampton that once belonged to Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith ...
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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 ...
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May 3, 2017 · Since completing the revamp of Grey Gardens, Bradlee and Quinn used the property as a summer home, and also rented it out. In the most recent set of rental photos, a Grey Gardens movie poster is displayed proudly. Nora Ephron, a friend of the couple, once remarked to the Times that "all the grace of the original house is exactly as it was."
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 ...
