Remsenburg, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 28th 2009 at 1:02PM

Today's home in Remsenburg, New York is eagerly seeking a buyer and is being sold at a deep discount. As Newsday's Real LI blog reports the estate first went on the market in 2007 for almost $8 million and is now being offered for $4.25 million as long as the buyer can come up with the financing within 30 days, puts down 10 percent and the sale closes within 60 days. The English Tudor style mansion was built in 1934 and belonged to Frank Smith, who was chief designer for Evan Picone. Smith died in 2007. His partner, Norman Leavitt, the trustee of the estate, has created the bottom line offer to raise money for estate taxes owed on the property. For your money you get a 6,400-square-foot, three-story house on 14-plus acres that includes a pond and formal gardens.The seven-bedroom home has seven fireplaces,two wood-paneled libraries, chandeliers, beveled lead glass windows and has interesting details like a fur vault, a telephone room under a staircase and a pipe organ that is still behind a wall Leavitt and Smith built to cover it. The listing for the home is here and an interactive tour is here.

Gallery: Remsenburg Estate

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Spectacular Bid Feb 28th 2009 6:00PM

Quality and value offered with this property at the vastly reduced price. The architecture is lovely, landscaping wonderful, seclusion and privacy exceptional, and compare to other $4M+ homes on LI this looks and feels like a multi-million dollar residence.

The interior does seem a bit stripped down as I expected a lot of Gilded Age type items like dental moldings in the rooms and carved wood but it would appear a more simplified restoration occured in the last 20 years. The hallways have that feel and the leaded glass casement windows do too. Those bits aside the property would satisfy any owner who appreciates a traditional and proper tudor mansion.