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Gilded Age Mansion and Island, Connecticut

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Gilded Age Mansion & Island in Connecticut

Jun 3, 2022

Location: Connecticut, USA

Connecticut Town Buys Gilded Age Mansion & Island!

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Source: Top Ten Real Estate Deals

Gilded Age Mansion, USA

The Town of Darien, Connecticut is officially under contract to purchase one of America’s last family-owned properties, Great Island, that includes one of the area’s last Gilded Age mansions. The property was reduced from its 2016 price of $175 million and was most recently listed at $100 million at the time the contract was signed, according to The Darien Times. There will be another Board of Selectmen meeting on June 6th to discuss the details. The purchase is subject to final approval by the Board of Selectmen, the Board of Finance, and the Representative Town meeting.

Located within the boundaries of Darien, Connecticut on an island on Long Island Sound, the 60-acre Great Island is the largest private island ever to be offered for sale on the East Coast. Built in 1902 and then purchased in the early 1900s by baking powder entrepreneur William Ziegler, the compound has remained in the Ziegler family since William bought it.

With its proximity to New York City’s financial center, Connecticut was a hotspot for grand mansions in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including the 15,000-square foot Lauder Greenway Estate in Greenwich, built in 1896 for insurance executive John Hamilton Gourlie. Lauder Greenway was the most expensive home in the United States when it sold in 2014 for $120 million.

Similar to the story for many of the Gilded Age mansion owners, Ziegler bought the estate as a summer home to escape New York City’s heat. The massive mansions, built for families such as the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Astors, were sometimes called “summer cottages” with owners who were often competing to claim the largest and most extravagant homes. Very few of the Gilded Age mansions are still owned by private families, most have been demolished for their land, burned down or donated to schools and non-profit institutions.

The 13,000-square-foot Great Island main house has 10 bedrooms and eight baths on over a mile of Long Island Sound waterfront. The estate has multiple additional properties, including a guest house, 19th-century farmhouse, caretakers cottage and a picturesque seaside cottage. There is a long list of amenities such as a pool and sand beach, a deep-water dock that can accommodate a 100-foot-yacht, and equestrian facilities that were designed by Rafael Gustavino – known for his work on the Biltmore Mansion, Grand Central Station and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Great Island equestrian features include an 18-stall granite stable, indoor and outdoor riding rings, a polo field, riding trails and many paddocks. One of the Ziegler family descendants is William Steinkraus, who was an Olympic show jumping champion and Olympic gold medal winner at Mexico City in 1968. In the 1930s, architect-to-the-super-rich, Addison Mizner, did renovations to the home.

Darian has attracted many actors, entertainers, authors, artists, designers, inventors and musicians over the years, indicating its motivational vibe for creatives and thinkers. Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband, Charles, lived quietly and privately there after the highly publicized kidnapping and murder of their first son, Charles. Buckminster Fuller, designer of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car lived there from the 1930s until his death in 1983.

The listing is held by Jennifer Leahy of Douglas Elliman, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Photography: Courtesy of Douglas Elliman – www.elliman.com

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Rest in Peace William Steinkraus One of the Greats

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"We must never forget, every time we sit on a horse, what an extraordinary privilege it is: to be able to unite one's body with that of another sentient being, one that is stronger, faster and more agile by far than we are, and at the same time, brave, generous, and uncommonly forgiving." - William Steinkraus

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William Clark "Bill" Steinkraus (October 12, 1925 – November 29, 2017) was an American show jumping champion.

Steinkraus participated in five Olympic Games. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in Mexico City, he won a gold medal in individual jumping with the horse, Snowbound. He obtained two silver medals in Team Jumping, first in 1960 on his mount, Ksar d'Espirt, and 1972 on Main Spring. Steinkraus also won a bronze medal in Team Jumping at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland on Hollandia. He was also slated to ride on the 1964 Olympic Team until his horse, Sinjon, was injured.

Steinkraus was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He first rode at the age of ten while at summer camp, after which he took lessons with such well-known horsemen as Gordon Wright and Morton W. "Cappy" Smith. He rode sales horses for Smith, allowing him to hone his skills on various mounts. In 1941 Steinkraus reached the highest level of equitation competition when he won the ASPCA Maclay Cup in Hunter Seat Equitation and the Good Hands Finals in Saddle Seat Equitation at the National Horse Show.[4]

Following his early successes, Steinkraus left to attend Yale University. After his first year of college, he joined the cavalry branch of the Army and was one of the final classes to receive their training on horseback. He was then shipped to Burma during World War II, where he served as part of the 124th Cavalry Regiment from 1943–1945. He then returned to the United States and finished his education at Yale, being graduated in 1949.

After college, Steinkraus focused on his riding career, and went on to join the Olympic team at the 1952 Helsinki Games. He also was a true amateur during this time, working as a businessman. Steinkraus retired from international competition at the end of 1972, following the show season, but continued to remain involved in the horse showing industry. This included involvement in the USET, either as president or chairman, from 1972–1992, and as an "Honorary Member" of the FEI Bureau. He also was a television commentator from 1976–1988 and a judge at the 1992 Olympic Games. As of 2008, he was still riding and playing chamber music.

Publications by Steinkraus

Riding and Jumping (1961)

The U.S. Equestrian Team Book of Riding (1976)

The Horse in Sport (1987)

Reflections on Riding and Jumping (1991)

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The Horse in Sport-William C. Steinkraus, M.A. Stoneridge-1987-First Edition http://dlvr.it/RR3K76

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We must never forget, every time we sit on a horse, what an extraordinary privilege it is: to be able to unite one's body with that of another sentient being, one that is stronger, faster and more agile by far than we are, and at the same time, brave, generous, and uncommonly forgiving.

William Steinkraus, Olympic equestrian.

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Bill Steinkraus, Equestrian Who Made Olympic History, Dies at 92

William Clark Steinkraus was born on Oct. 12, 1925, in Cleveland and grew up in Westport, Conn. He started riding at 9 in a summer camp in Canada and rode in his first National Horse Show at 12, in a junior class.

A student of the renowned trainers Gordon Wright and Morton W. Smith, he went on to win junior titles as a teenager before enrolling at Yale.

Steinkraus interrupted his studies for…

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We must never forget, every time we sit on a horse, what an extraordinary privilege it is: to be able to unite one's body with that of another sentient being, one that is stronger, faster and more agile by far than we are, and at the same time, brave, generous, and uncommonly forgiving." - William Steinkraus, Olympic equestrian

Wow! What an lovely and elegant way to describe the relationship between humans and horses - uncommonly forgiving indeed!

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Bill Steinkraus, Equestrian Who Made Olympic History, Dies at 92

William Clark Steinkraus was born on Oct. 12, 1925, in Cleveland and grew up in Westport, Conn. He started riding at 9 in a summer camp in Canada and rode in his first National Horse Show at 12, in a junior class. A student of the renowned trainers Gordon Wright and Morton W. Smith, he went on to win junior titles as a teenager before enrolling at Yale. Steinkraus interrupted his studies for Army…

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Famous Thoroughbreds of the Past This is the legendary Hall of Fame Jumper Snowbound with Bill Steinkraus, one of the greatest riders of the Show Jumping scene. Snowbound was an off-the-track Thoroughbred, and not a successful one at that. He took three years to break his maiden. He was also known for having lots of tendon problems, probably in part due to his extravagant and powerful jump efforts. With Steinkraus aboard, he won Gold in the 1968 Olympics, and multiple European competitions throughout his career. Steinkraus once said about him: "the bigger the occasion, the more he rose to it, and he never gave up."

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William Steinkraus, Captain of the American Equestrian team and the great Percheron-Thoroughbred cross Bold Minstrel cleared a 7-foot-3 fence in the international Puissance class during the 1956 National Horse Show at New York’s Madison Square Garden. RH — ASSOCIATED PRESS Automatic Release, Ladies and Gentlemen! Via In Lexington, National Horse Show hopes to reclaim electric, glamorous past | National Horse Show | Kentucky.com