Hamptons $8 Million Windmill House!

Hamptons $8 Million Windmill House!

Hamptons $8 Million Windmill House!

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It’s almost impossible not to be curious when seeing a windmill in such an unlikely place as the oceanside resort area of Amagansett in the Hamptons. Is it real, or did someone just decide they liked windmills and decided to copy one? In fact, this particular windmill is the real thing. Since it was built in the early 1830s, it was most likely built by the descendants of the first Dutch settlers in Amagansett, the brothers Abraham and Jacob Schellinger. When New Amsterdam, at the tip of what is now Manhattan, was taken over by the British, Abraham and Jacob’s father moved the family to Amagansett. This formerly working windmill was built approximately 200 years later and was used to provide power for the next door apple orchard, which still exists today.

In the 1950s, Faberge cosmetics founder Samuel Rubin bought the windmill and converted it into a home. At that time he had tennis courts and used the property to entertain friends. Many celebrities visited, played or rented there such as Alec Baldwin, Ralph Lauren, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and Kurt Vonnegut.

Though only 1,300 square feet with two bedrooms and one bath, the house does sit on 5.4 acres and is only a few minutes to both Napeague Bay and the ocean. The ground floor opens to an 18’ by 18’ hexagonal living space with wide plank hardwood floors and exposed beam ceilings and a stairwell with rope banister leads to the upper levels. Also on the main level are the kitchen, a bedroom and bath. The second floor of the windmill is the main bedroom and above that, the unfinished tower room that housed the wooden mechanical workings of the sails, including a break that would stop them. Many parts of the original hand hewn works are still there, as well as a storage closet.

Though some would want to build on the site, in its present state, the house makes a nice getaway and conversation piece for the millionaire who has everything . . .except a windmill. For more information.

Historical Hamptons windmill house on 5.3 acres, priced at $7.9 million.

Source: www.elliman.com