The Great Neck Estates house where “The Great Gatsby” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived from 1922 to 1924 has been put up for sale with a $3,888,888 price tag.
The sale of the 5,174-square-foot home located at 6 Gateway Driveis being handled by Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, according to its website.
The Mediterranean-style home, which is owned by resident Larry Horn according to Great Neck Estates Village Administrator Kathleen Santelli, was built in 1918 and has seven bedrooms and six full bathrooms.
Efforts to reach Horn were unavailing.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Horn bought the house in 2008 for $4.2 million.
The house has been updated over the years and the owners are selling the house because their children are grown, according to the Wall Street Journal report
Nurit Weiss and Inbar Mitzman, the property’s listing agents, referred comment to Coldwell Banker public relations, which could also not be reached for comment.
Though Fitzgerald wrote much of “The Great Gatsby” in the French Riviera, the time he spent in Great Neck reveling in it’s all-night parties likely inspired the characters in his famous novel. It was at his Great Neck home where Fitzgerald received an advance on the novel that would become “The Great Gatsby” – a $3,393 cut from his publisher.
While living in Great Neck, Fitzgerald would sit with his friend, newspaper columnist Ring Lardner, watching the peninsula’s wealthy socialites flock to and from the East Shore Road estate of New York World editor Herbert Bayard Swope.
