Diane Sawyer’s compound in Vineyard Haven, known as Chip Chop, has been listed for sale for $24 million.
The 20-acre property overlooks Vineyard Sound, and is located at 794 and 690 Chappaquonsett Road.
Chip Chop has a long history of hosting well-known dignitaries. It was built as a home for famed Broadway actress Katharine Cornell.
The property is a bit of a landmark in Tisbury. The Chip Chop property is painted into the mural in town hall in Vineyard Haven, at the Katharine Cornell Theater, painted by Island artist Stan Murphy.
Sotheby’s International Realty is listing the property.
Sawyer, a former anchor at ABC News, and her late husband Mike Nichols were longtime seasonal residents of the Vineyard. The couple were married on the Island in 1988, and in 1995 purchased Chip Chop.
The property has two separate lots — one 17.4 acres, and the other 2.84 acres. Sotheby’s says there’s a mile of private shoreline surrounding the property, “including 2,000 feet of sandy beach on the exquisite swimming waters of Vineyard Sound, and a large swath of sandy beach on Lake Tashmoo.”
Sotheby’s writes that there are four homes on the property, a three-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom cottage, and two beach houses built in 2007.
I hope whoever has 24 million dollars for this one of a kind property will not alter it. I also hope it’s not bought by some faceless corporation like so many of the properties on the Vineyard are these days.
But a story about Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols. When they got married in 1988 they came to the Courthouse for a “marriage waiver” (a document signed by a judge to waive the three day waiting period in Massachusetts) and I assisted them. Carly Simon came with them! Needless to say I was a little bit in awe, as was the judge! Another story, my father, Leon Stiller, made all of the draperies for Chip Chop, and he visited several times. My mother, Ruth Cronig Stiller, assisted him on several occasions, and once met Helen Keller there, one of the many celebrities who visited Miss Cornell.
That’s $480,000 for the landbank.
I will enjoy walking on some protected property
with my girlfriend and her dog sometime in the future.
I don’t feel sorry for the poor people who have
to fork this money up.
$480 k is just a few trips in their taxpayer
subsidized private jets to have a few “corporate meetings”
over lunch in Paris or Dubai.
It’ll probably be one of John Kerry’s or Obama’s friends flying in on a private jet to their new waterfront home. Climate Change, Sea Level Rising…..move on folks…..nothing to see here.
John– why is it that you seem to think private
jets are a problem if a democrat is in it, but have
never said a word about trump’s really big jet, and
that his henchmen usually fly private.
I am on record that I would like ALL private jets
banned. How about you ? I would think so, since
you seem to not like them .
Or is there something hypocritical going on?
There ! I used that word first– no tag backs.
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