Though I’ve lived in Arizona for over 17 years, I am originally a New Englander. Growing up near Cape Cod and the South Shore of Massachusetts, I associate traditional coastal-style architecture with the ubiquitous boxy, weathered-shingle Capes and Colonials found there and all along the upper Atlantic Seaboard.
Unlike tract homes common throughout our country, these residences, mostly ancient and many times family-owned for generations, have been extended and added-on to over the years, resulting in something charmingly rambling and totally unique.
Red Gate Farm on Martha’s Vinyard off the coast of Cape Cod, fits neatly into the category of coastal architecture but with a considerable distinction. It was imagined, commissioned and occupied by none other than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. And it is a simply magnificent specimen.
When I first saw the photos and video below, they instantly summoned up impressions of the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, made a poignant and public landmark during the Kennedy Presidency and following an endless parade of family tragedies.
Whether by design or simply a product of regional style preference I wouldn’t know, but this breathtaking property is currently on the market for $65,000,000.00 and my guess is that the next homeowner here couldn’t fail to feel presence of its associated past.
(Really) Great Spaces: Video- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s Martha’s Vineyard Estate
By Zoe Eisenbergh
Red Gate Farm, the formal name of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s Martha’s Vineyard estate, recently hit the market for $65 million. Located in Aquinnah, Mass., the estate sits on 340 acres at the edge of Squibnocket Pond, and includes over a mile of Atlantic Ocean beachfront access.
Kennedy Onassis purchased Red Gate Farm in 1979, when the acres of land—operating as a sheep farm—housed nothing more than a small cabin on its grounds.
The estate was built in 1981 and renovated in 2000, and has been treasured by the Kennedy Onassis family for over 41 years. Now, Jacqueline’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, seeks the next steward for this ecological haven.
The property includes a 6,456-square-foot, cedar-shingled main residence with five bedrooms and two large decks facing the beach’s sandy dunes, as well as a two-story, four-bedroom guest house.
Outside, features include two freshwater ponds, a vegetable garden, blueberry patch, an outdoor pool, tennis court and a fairy treehouse built for the Kennedy Onassis grandchildren. The original cabin still remains on the property. Other structures include a three-bedroom caretaker’s house, a barn, two garages (one with a two-bedroom apartment), a temperature-controlled storage building and a boathouse.
Listed for: $65,000,000
Credit: Christie’s International Real Estate
Credit: Christie’s International Real Estate
Credit: Christie’s International Real Estate
Credit: Christie’s International Real Estate
This was originally published on RISMedia’s Housecall. Zoe Eisenberg is RISMedia’s senior content editor. Email her your real estate news ideas at zoe@rismedia.com. Reprinted with permission from RISMedia. ©2019. All rights reserved.
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