The house was called Grey Gardens because of the color of the dunes, the cement garden walls, and the sea mist. The four acres of land the home now sits on is in the Georgica Beach section of East Hampton, one of the most expensive regions in the world, and it was purchased by a wealthy couple in 1895 before the home was built in the early 1900s.īy 1913, it was sold to the president of a coal company whose wife, Anna Gilman Hill, imported ornate concrete walls from Spain to enclose the garden.
The grand East Hampton estate known as Grey Gardens has a fascinating history with many ups and downs.
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The full story of the Mercer-Williams House is featured in an episode of House Beautiful’s haunted house podcast, Dark House. Rumors about the crime and ensuing ghost stories continue to swirl to this day. Much like the rest of the city, the home was supposedly built right on top of unmarked graves. If the story sounds familiar, it's probably because you recognize it from the bestselling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. This Italianate revival played host to three untimely deaths, including that of 11-year-old Tommy Downs when he fell off the roof in 1969, the 1981 fatal shooting of Danny Hansford by Williams, and Williams himself, when he died in the same room as Hansford less than a year after being acquitted of Hansford's death in a fourth trial. In the 1970s, famed preservationist and antiques dealer Jim Williams restored the home to its former glory after years of neglect. Located across from one of Savannah, Georgia's, most famous and pristine squares (Monterey Square in the city's historic district), the Mercer-Williams house dates back to 1860. The full story of the Ackley House is featured in an episode of House Beautiful’s haunted house podcast, Dark House, on. 1 La Veta Place has since been home to several celebrities, including musician Ingrid Michaelson. In a landmark decision now referred to as “The Ghostbusters Ruling,” Ackley House was deemed haunted by the New York Supreme Court, and the buyers were able to pull out of the sale while also getting half of their down payment back. The Ackleys then found themselves entangled in a legal battle over whether or not they should have disclosed the haunted "nature" of the house. The article gained enough momentum that the house became a regular stop on local ghost tours, which ended up having some not-so-great ramifications when it came time to sell the home in the late 1980s.Īfter some time on the market, the Stambosvky family put down a down payment and were ready to relocate from Manhattan, when a contractor made a passing comment about the home's haunted reputation. The many ghosts who roamed the halls of 1 La Veta Place were nothing but friendly, though they were active enough to inspire the matriarch, Helen Ackley, to write a national article about them in Reader's Digest. Nicknamed “ Ackley House” after its one-time occupants, the Ackley Family, this classic Queen Anne sits on the Hudson River across from Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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