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A completed home in the estate section of Westhampton Beach. COURTESY LAWRENCE III CORPORATION
Harry Bates exterior
From the shady Wainscott garden of George Biercuk and Robert Luckey. COURTESY GEORGE BIERCUK
From the shady Wainscott garden of George Biercuk and Robert Luckey. COURTESY GEORGE BIERCUK
Amy Zerner's artistic couture.
From the shady Wainscott garden of George Biercuk and Robert Luckey. COURTESY GEORGE BIERCUK
Demolition at Keyes Island property. COURTESY LAND AQUISITION DEPARTMENT Kronos photographed in San Francisco, CA March 26, 2013©Jay Blakesberg
Demolition at Keyes Island property. COURTESY LAND AQUISITION DEPARTMENT
Perlbinder residence. Kronos photographed in San Francisco, CA March 26, 2013©Jay Blakesberg
Harry Bates exterior
Co-chair Dick Bruce at "Art in the Garden." COURTESY FRAN CONIGLIARO
Fran Conigliaro and Diana Brennan at "Art in the Garden." COURTESY DIANA BRENNAN
A completed home in the estate section of Westhampton Beach. COURTESY LAWRENCE III CORPORATION
Did the Underground Railroad ever stop on Swamp Road in East Hampton? Highly unlikely, but, as first reported by Behind the Hedges, the author of the award-winning novel with that title, Colson Whitehead, and his wife, literary agent Julie Barer, have just purchased a house on that tree-lined road that leads to the Northwest Woods section.
We’re told that the house is “set on two beautifully landscaped acres down a long private driveway” and the “minimalist European designed” abode is 4,000 square feet. The residence has 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. The living room features double-height ceilings and floor-to-ceiling Arcadia windows and doors that overlook a heated in-ground pool. The master bedroom has a marble bath and separate dressing room. We’re not certain of the purchase price, but the most recent ask was $2,250,000. No doubt the couple will take full advantage of not one but two offices lined with bookshelves.
Mr. Whitehead is more associated with Sag Harbor than East Hampton because his family summered there for many years, and his novel “Sag Harbor” is a thinly veiled memoir about growing up in the African-American section of the village. His first novel—after graduating from Harvard College and a stint as a reviewer at the Village Voice—was “The Intuitionist,” which received the PEN/Hemingway Award. There have been several novels since, but the most recent one, “The Underground Railroad,” launched Mr. Whitehead into the upper realm of American authors. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for fiction last year. We’ll wager that helping to pay for the new Swamp Road digs is that Barry Jenkins, director of “Moonlight,” and Brad Pitt’s Plan B are teaming up to produce an Amazon miniseries based on the book.
27east on Sep 28, 2017