A mansion in Katama said to be inspired by “The Great Gatsby” has set a residential property record on the Vineyard after selling last week for $37.5 million.
The Witchwood Lane home, in the portfolio of Vineyard architect Patrick Ahearn, offers three acres and more than 15,000 square feet of living space in the main house, with seven bedrooms. The Witchwood Lane Trust made the purchase on Oct. 30 from Summer Bay LLC.
The $37.5 million sale price edges out the sale of the Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark, a sweeping property where the Obama family used to vacation, which sold this summer for $37 million. The Dukes County Assessors Office at the time said that was the largest residential property sale in the Vineyard’s history.
“Inspired by ‘The Great Gatsby,’ this new homestead recalls the glamour, style, and grace of the 1920s even before one sees it,” Patrick Ahearn’s website describes the property, which was built in 2000. “That’s due to a dramatic approach down a long curving drive, through a porte cochère, and into an arrival court. Only from here does the stately gambrel-roofed manor truly reveal itself.”
Aside from views of Edgartown Harbor and Chappaquiddick, the home’s résumé boasts a bowling alley and a three-car garage.The property had been on the market for more than $38 million earlier this year.
Last week’s sale also surpassed the sale of former Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham’s 186-acre West Tisbury property, which went for $32.5 million in 2019, a record at the time. The highest overall sale on-Island dates to 2001, when the Nature Conservancy purchased the Herring Creek Farm in Edgartown for $64 million for conservation purposes.
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Trust recorded that it collected $750,000 on Thursday’s sale.
Is there really a need for a three car garage and a bowling alley in a home that’s probably only used a few weeks a year? Jeez…is there a contest for the highest cost for a home on Martha’s Vineyard that we peons don’t know about?
You don’t understand!!
The three-car garage is for storage of the “island” vehicles over the winter!!
Whoop de doo! Ick!
I’ve worked in this house many times. It’s hideous!
But not so hideous that you wouldn’t take their money!
The cost of hypocrisy is never factored in, John. These houses wouldn’t be what they are without the people who work on them, pocket the money when they’re done, and then complain– or even make a movie about those darn McMansions.
The 3 car garage paid for clothes, food, housing and medicine for those who built it, but why bring that up?
How so? Is it bad decor?
In case anyone is curious about the interior like I was, here’s a virtual tour.
https://vimeo.com/1091353346
Why does there appear to be envy of a beautifu house on the island and an implication that uit represents more than one needs. Are we not a capitalistic society that wishes well on anyone who succeeds through hard work?
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