The end of an era for the "Gatsby house" The popularity of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Era novel endures to this day. But as Serena Altschul tells us, the same cannot be said for a glamorous house that may have inspired it: Just yesterday morning on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, a magnificent old home was knocked to the ground. Yet this is not your ordinary teardown. This is a house with a storied past ... "The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile jumping over sundials and brick walks and burning gardens.
" You can almost hear the echoes of better days so beautifully captured in what many consider the Great American Novel: F. Lore has it that this house - called Lands End - fired Fitzgerald's imagination. "It's exciting; people in town think it's exciting," said its owner, real estate developer Bert Brodsky. Built by a newspaper editor in 1902, the 21,000 square-foot house in the village of Sands Point hosted the likes of Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein. "They did!
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