Crumbling $30m 'Great Gatsby' mansion faces demolition
By Fiona Roberts Updated: 11:05 GMT, 9 March 2011 In its Gilded Age heyday, it was the scene of lavish parties attended by the likes of Winston Churchill, the Marx Brothers and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But now Lands End, the grand colonial mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's house in F. The 1902 property, set in 13 acres on the tip of Sands Point, Long Island, is slowly crumbling and costs $4,500 each day to maintain. Condemned: Lands End, the $18 million mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home Sad end: The dramatic but dilapidated mansion that was costing $4,500 a day to maintain Past its glory days: Broken and boarded-up windows of the once-opulent mansion Golden age: Robert Redford and Mia Farrow played Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 film adaptation of the book David Brodsky, who bought the estate with his father Bert in 2004, has had the dilapidated mansion on and off the market for several years, but has never found a buyer for it.
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