In East Hampton Village, an early example of Shingle-style architecture is going on the market for the first time in a century with an asking price of $18.95 million, according to listing agent Peter M. Turino of Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons.
Built in the 1890s, the roughly 10,000-square-foot home is "the quintessential Shingle-style Hamptons house," said local architect Erica Broberg Smith. "This is probably the most copied house in the Hamptons."
Walking distance to Main Beach, the 10-bedroom house sits on 3.3 acres. With a gambrel roof and wraparound porch, it has been preserved largely as it was when it was built, Mr. Turino said. He added that a new owner will likely want to renovate.
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The house was designed for Schuyler Quackenbush by his wife’s brother, architect Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz, who lived across the street, according to the book "East Hampton (Images of America)" by John W. Rae. Around 1915, it was purchased by Ogden M. Edwards and his wife Lela Harkness. In the 1940s ownership of the house passed to their daughter Katherine and her husband H. Willis Nichols. The Nicholses died in the 1980s and the property is owned by their estate.
In a statement, the Nicholses’ four daughters said: "The house has served five generations of the Harkness Edwards family well but the many branches are scattering and making their lives elsewhere. It was decided the time has come to sell the house."
In the 1940s, one wing of the home was removed and relocated to another part of the property. The family rented it out for years before selling the parcel. Now a three-bedroom house with a swimming pool on roughly 1 acre, that property is listed with Brown Harris Stevens for $7.5 million.
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