Great Gatsby House

Great Gatsby House
Sands Point, New York (NY), US
This house is believed by historians to be the inspiration for the house owned by Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".

The home was listed for sale for $30M in 2009, but after failing to sell there are now plans to raze the house and to build 5 homes valued at $10M each.
This house is believed by historians to be the inspiration for the house owned by Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".

The home was listed for sale for $30M in 2009, but after failing to sell there are now plans to raze the house and to build 5 homes valued at $10M each.
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By: jdubble07

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@ 2011-06-25 14:37:48
In the book, the two mansions were in West Egg and East Egg and had views of each other across the water. If West Egg is Great Neck/Kings Point and East Egg is Sands Point, then this cannot be the location of the East Egg mansion. From this location you have a nice view of Westchester and maybe Glen Cove to the east, but you can't see Great Neck. In Kings Point they named a street Gatsby Lane. The houses are large but not huge like this one. The old mansions that might have best represented the ones in the book are probably long gone and their property's subdivided already.

At the very least, the title of this house should be "Land's End" like in the articles that are linked. In none of the articles is it mentioned as the inspiration of Jay Gatsby's house but as a possible inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's.
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@ 2012-03-15 17:41:21
The inspiration for the 'Gatsby Mansion' is the old Walter P. Chrysler estate at the tip of Kings Point, Long Island. The main building, named "Folker House" by Chryler is now known as "Wiley Hall" and is the main administration building for the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
Google map it and see.......

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