This English tudor manorhouse in Remsenburg belongs to Norman Leavitt, who moved there with his longtime partner, the late Evan Picone chief designer Frank Smith, in 1973. Leavitt, an antiques dealer known for his volunteer work at East End Hospice, is selling the house.
Now living in a retirement community, Leavitt is asking $6.95 million for the 7,000-square-foot house. The asking price includes 13.7 acres of property, which includes a pond and formal gardens. (With an additional 3/4-acre lot, the price is $7.7 million.) The property can be subdivided.
Annual taxes are $21,014 ($16,968 without the extra lot).
The stone and brick house was built by the EW Howell Co. in 1934. There are seven bedrooms, five baths and two half-baths, as well as seven fireplaces and a three-car garage. There are also some rather unusual finds. In addition to silver chandeliers and sconces, the house has a complete pipe organ that is behind a wall Leavitt and Smith built to cover it. The house even includes a fur vault.
"It's just so unusual for this part of Long Island, with its heavy slate roof and beautiful heavy, thick oak woodwork," says Meredith Murray, who is co-listing the property with Thomas Mangel, both from The Corcoran Group's Westhampton Beach office. "I have lived here all my life, and I didn't even know this house existed. It's got a screen of tall cedars. When I first went to see it, I thought I was in fantasyland."