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This Greenwich, Conn., 13, 500-sq. ft. French-Renaissance mansion on 50 acres on Long Island Sound was built in 1896, the year William McKinley was elected president, and the year Wilhelm R??ntgen discovered x-rays. The home, which has about a mile of Atlantic Ocean frontage, is now publicly listed for sale for the first time in more than a century.

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The Copper Beech Farm in Greenwich, named for property's copper beech trees population, is up for grabs for a mere $190 million.

Harriet Lauder Greenway purchased the home in 1904 and lived there for 75 years. The current owner, timberman John Rudey, has made it his home the last 31 years.

What you get for your money:

  • 12 bedrooms; most with fireplaces
  • Victorian manse and sleeping porches extending off bedrooms (what estates had before air conditioning)
  • 7 full baths + 2 half baths
  • Wood-paneled library
  • Ornate dining room with tracery ceiling and oak columns
  • Solarium
  • Wine cellar
  • Basement kitchen with dumb waiter
  • 1,800-foot-long driveway
  • Stone carriage house with clock tower
  • 3-bedroom gatehouse
  • 6-car garage
  • Multiple greenhouses
  • 2 conjoined heptagonal pools
  • Octagonal pool house with dressing and bath facilities
  • Grass tennis court facing a "viewing pergola," formal gardens, terraces and an apple orchard








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