If you will be out East during Thanksgiving weekend, you won’t want to miss the East Hampton Historical Society’s 38th annual House & Garden Tour. This year’s tour features five iconic residences, including Grey Gardens. The weekend kicks off with a cocktail party at the Maidstone Club on Friday, November 24, and the House & Garden Tour takes place on Saturday, November 25. Tickets benefit the East Hampton Historical Society and are available for purchase here. Preview the homes below.
Grey Gardens
Currently owned by fashion designer Liz Lange, the iconic home near Georgica Beach was once owned by The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his journalist wife, Sally Quinn. The home has also had ties to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Lange has reimagined the storied home’s interiors, which will be featured on the tour.
Artist Retreat With Hollywood History
Overlooking Wiborg Beach, this East Hampton modernist cottage was built in 1960 and renovated in 2011. Current owner Ted Hartley is an artist, while his late wife, Dina Merrill, was an actress, heiress, and socialite.
Main Street Manor
Shingle-style homes are aplenty in out East, but this circa-1799 home was the first in East Hampton Village. It was also the second-ever home with a gambrel roof on Long Island. Beyond its architectural significance, this residence was originally the postmaster’s house and the location of East Hampton Garden Club’s first plant sale in the 1910s.
The Devon Colony’s Windy Dune
The Devon Colony is a residential enclave in the Amagansett Highlands, formed at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Levering and three other Cincinatti-based businessmen—William Cooper Procter, Joseph Rawson Jr., and William Stanhope Rowe—started the 1,000-acre Colony. Windy Dune, pictured here, has been featured in HC&G.
The Devon Colony’s Procter House
The Procter House dates back to 1910 and was the home of William Cooper Procter, a grandson of Procter & Gamble founder William Procter. Since much of the Devon Colony’s wealth came from Procter & Gamble, the Colony was dubbed “Soap Hill.”
