Inside a $55 Million Long Island Compound Straight Out of ‘The Great Gatsby’

Home of the Week: Inside a $55 Million Long Island Compound Straight Out of ‘The Great Gatsby’

The sprawling estate–complete with superyacht dock, casino and shooting range–was recently listed for as high as $100 million.

Howard Walker

It could have come straight off the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby. Now listed for $55 million, this Roaring Twenties compound on New York’s fabled Long Island Gold Coast has everything the dapper namesake of that story could ever desire.

Built in 1928, the eight-acre, three-home estate known as Three Bridges overlooks Long Island Sound and features 18 bedrooms and 32 bathrooms in an astonishing 60,000 square feet of interior space. Among the maize of rooms, you’ll find a lavish ballroom, a dining room lined in purple lapis with an ornate colored-glass ceiling, and dazzling living spaces.

The place is clearly made for a life of leisure: There’s a full-size tennis court, marble-lined screening room, two-lane bowling alley, hair salon, wine vault, indoor racquetball court, casino room and even a shooting range. Kids, meanwhile, can have the run of a two-story, Greek temple-style dollhouse that’s as big as many Manhattan apartments. For lazy days sailing on the Sound, the estate comes with its own private dock big enough to park a 200-foot superyacht. A huge outdoor swimming pool juts majestically out into the water and has its own water slide and colorful marble floor.

Gatsby would no doubt relish impressing guests with the property’s dramatic, illuminated fountains and statues, which are said to have been inspired by those at the Peterhof Grand Palace in St. Petersburg. This Russian touch most likely came from the estate’s most famous owner, the Russian-born former New York cab driver turned billionaire, Tamir Sapir. Mr. Sapir, who died in 2014, made his fortune in New York real estate during the 1990s. He once owned the magnificent Beaux-Art-style Duke-Semans Mansion on Fifth Avenue, selling it to Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim in 2010 for $40 million. Read more from Robb Report.