Elysium (Southampton, New York)
USA /
New York /
Southampton /
Southampton, New York /
Meadow Lane, 650
World
/ USA
/ New York
/ Southampton
World / United States / Connecticut
house, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast
Built by Henry F. duPont in 1929, the Georgian-style mansion originally called Chesteron was the largest house in the Hamptons in the days before the industrialist Ira Rennert built his 100,000 square foot estate in Sagaponack in 1999. Chesteron was 45,000 square feet with 72 rooms, 60 of them bedrooms. For decades, the duPont family held on to the white elephant and then finally shuttered it.
Overgrown and semiderelict, the house was sold at auction in 1979 to Barry Trupin, whose fortune derived from truck leasing, for a reported price of $330,000. Mr. Trupin began to redesign the house as gothic French chateau, installing the interior of an English pub and a shark tank, and named it Dragon's Head. His efforts to renovate were protracted and costly and eventually embroiled him in a series of lawsuits with the Town of Southampton.
Mr. Trupin's vision of Dragon's Head was never realized. He sold it to Francesco Galesi, a Manhattan investor, for $2.3 million in 1993. Mr. Galesi knocked the turrets down, reduced the number of bedrooms, and soon the house was on the market again, this time with an asking price of $45 million. There it languished, until Calvin Klein came along paying $29.9 million to buy it in 2004. In 2009, Klein tore down Elysium, with plans to start building a smaller, modern home.
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Overgrown and semiderelict, the house was sold at auction in 1979 to Barry Trupin, whose fortune derived from truck leasing, for a reported price of $330,000. Mr. Trupin began to redesign the house as gothic French chateau, installing the interior of an English pub and a shark tank, and named it Dragon's Head. His efforts to renovate were protracted and costly and eventually embroiled him in a series of lawsuits with the Town of Southampton.
Mr. Trupin's vision of Dragon's Head was never realized. He sold it to Francesco Galesi, a Manhattan investor, for $2.3 million in 1993. Mr. Galesi knocked the turrets down, reduced the number of bedrooms, and soon the house was on the market again, this time with an asking price of $45 million. There it languished, until Calvin Klein came along paying $29.9 million to buy it in 2004. In 2009, Klein tore down Elysium, with plans to start building a smaller, modern home.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Klein_(fashion_designer)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°51'36"N 72°25'8"W
- "Westerly" 2 km
- "Black Point" 4.5 km
- "Ballyshear" 5.9 km
- "Fordune" 6.6 km
- "Villa Maria"/"Red Gables" 7.6 km
- "The Port of Missing Men" 9 km
- Jerry Seinfeld house 25 km
- Jane Wenner Residence 25 km
- Highlands Condominium Complex 54 km
- Frank Jones Residence 58 km
- Shinnecock Indian Reservation 1.8 km
- Mecox Bay 8.6 km
- Great Peconic Bay 12 km
- Laurel Valley County Park 13 km
- Sagaponack Lake, Sagaponack Pond, Sag Pond 13 km
- Little Peconic Bay 15 km
- The Bridge 15 km
- East Hampton Airport (HTO/KHTO) 18 km
- Southold, New York 32 km
- Town of East Hampton 34 km