As soon as House to the Vanderbilts and Whitneys, a 1930s Very long Island Estate Asks $27 Million

A historic 1930s estate, at the time residence to customers of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families and not long ago restored to its previous glory by a wealthy nearby few, is listing for $27 million on New York’s Extended Island.

Identified as Wychwood, the 13-acre estate is broadly deemed to be a person of the most sizeable remaining Extensive Island properties from an era immortalized by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Excellent Gatsby,” according to Monica Randall, creator of “The Mansions of Lengthy Island’s Gold Coastline.”

Situated in Mill Neck, N.Y., with sights of Oyster Bay Harbor, the English Tudor manor home was built nearly a century ago for Florence Calkin Dickerman, widow of financier Watson Bradley Dickerman, the onetime president of the New York Inventory Trade, according to historical documents. It then bought around 1950 to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II, a scion of a person of America’s richest family members, and then yet again in the 1960s to a person of his family, businessman and Pan American Airways founder Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.

The recent house owners are real-estate developer Jan Burman, 69, and his spouse Renée Burman. Mr. Burman is president of Engel Burman, a national developer of multifamily and assisted residing communities. The Burmans bought the home in 2007 from the estate of Henry Luce III, the editor in main of Time Inc., who experienced owned it considering the fact that the early 1970s.

More than the years, each and every of the owners referred to as the estate some thing unique. Ms. Dickerman referred to as it Hillendale Mr. Whitney termed it Oakley Court and Mr. Luce christened it Wychwood, which trapped.