Lasata
Lasata is an estate in East Hampton, New York, that was the childhood summer home of the future First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis until she was about 12.
Description
The two-story, gray-stucco mansion (also known as the George Schurman house)[citation needed] at 121 Further Lane was built in 1917 on 12 acres (4.9 ha) two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and three blocks from the Maidstone Club.
Included on the grounds was a stable for 8 acres (3.2 ha),
History
The house belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's paternal grandparents
The Bouviers said "Lasata" was a Native American name for "place of peace."
Jackie's father
Her name was a cross between the paternal side (taken from the three generations of "Jacks") and the Lee side of her mother. The Lees had a house on Lily Pond Lane also in East Hampton village. Jackie's sister Caroline Lee Bouvier was also born at the Southampton Hospital on March 3, 1933, while the family was staying at Lasata. Lee Radziwill later owned a home nearby on East Dune Lane from about 1988 until 2002 with her late husband, film director Herb Ross.
As the marriage of Jackie's parents broke apart in the 1930s (before a divorce became final in 1940), Jackie and Lee continued to spend their summers at the house. At the same time, the marriage of her maternal grandparents
Jackie was to be an accomplished horse rider during her stays at Lasata and her favorite horse was Danceuse, many photographs of which appear in the book Young Jackie by Olivia Harrison, Bert Morgan
- Jacqueline Bouvier, an eleven-year-old equestrienne from East Hampton, Long Island, scored a double victory in the horsemanship competition. Miss Bouvier achieved a rare distinction. The occasions are few when a young rider wins both contests in the same show.
At age 10, Jackie was to write:[5]
- When I go down to the sandy shore
- I can think of nothing I want more
- Than to live by the booming blue sea
- As the seagulls flutter around about me
- I can run about when the tide is out
- With the wind and the sea all about
- And the seagulls are swirling and diving for fish
- Oh-to live by the sea is my only wish
When her father died, she asked that daisies and bachelor's buttons in white wicker baskets be placed at
In the 1970s, the First Lady's sister Lee Radziwill discussed creating a documentary with Albert and David Maysles about Jacqueline's childhood in East Hampton. At about the same time their aunt, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and first cousin Edith Bouvier Beale made national attention when the National Enquirer ran an exposé on the deplorable conditions of their nearby home on West End Road. The Suffolk County, New York Board of Health made a raid ordering them to clean up the property which was falling into disrepair and was being overrun with feral cats.
The Maysles shot footage of the Beales and decided they would make better subjects for a documentary. They scrapped the Bouvier family documentary and Lee Radziwill confiscated the initial footage of the Beales.[7] However, the Maysles returned and refocused their documentary on the Beales. This footage became the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens.
The documentary was filmed after Jackie convinced Aristotle Onassis to donate $32,000 to fix the Beale house removing 10,000 bags of garbage.
Jackie's father, grandfather, grandmother, great-grandfather, and great-grandmother are buried at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton as is her maternal grandmother (and various other relatives including her aunt Edith Beale).
Jackie's mother Janet, following the death of her second husband
Present ownership
The house is still privately owned and in 2006 it was offered for sale for $25 million. It was owned by former Coach design executive, Reed Krakoff, and his wife, Delphine.[9] The property was subdivided into one empty 4-acre plot and another with seven acres and the house. Both plots sold in January 2018.[10] for $24 million to famous Hollywood producer David Zander.[11]
In August 2023, Fashion mogul Tom Ford bought the estate for $52 million.[12][13]
References
- ^ America's Queen By Sarah Bradford (excerpted on CNN) Archived 2007-12-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto – Excerpted on ereader.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
- ^ First Lady Biography: Jackie Kennedy – Firstladies.org – Retrieved January 14, 2006
- ^ Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Biography – JFKLibrary.org
- ^ JFK Library Archived 2007-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Garden Varieties – House and Garden – Editors Blog – May 2006". Archived from the original on 2006-10-30. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
- ^ "The Documentary". Grey Gardens Online.
- ^ Caroline breakup story stuns pals of Kennedys by Bill Zwecker – Chicago Sun-Times June 20, 2006 Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Keil, Braden (2007-02-15). "Heave Ho-Ward". New York Post.
- ^ Euler, Laura (18 January 2018). "Lasata, Jackie Kennedy's East Hampton Summer House, Closed Today". Behind the Hedges.
- ^ Duncan, Michelle (2023-09-14). "Inside Tom Ford's Impressive Portfolio of Historic Properties". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ Sophie Edwards (2023-08-20). "Tom Ford buys Jackie Kennedy's former summer home in the Hamptons for $52 million – the interiors are timeless". homesandgardens.com. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ Clarke, Katherine (2023-08-14). "Tom Ford Is the Buyer of $52 Million Hamptons Estate Where Jackie O Summered". WSJ. Retrieved 2023-09-21.