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Gemini Estate in Manalapan
Mar 25, 2021
Gemini Estate
America?s Most Expensive Home Finally Sells!
Location: Manalapan, Florida, USA
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In 2015, the sixteen-acre Gemini estate in Manalapan, Florida, was the most expensive home in the U.S. Its unique positioning on a barrier island provided an Atlantic Ocean beach in the front and an Intracoastal Waterway boat dock for yachts in the back. Originally priced at $195 million, after a number of reductions it has recently sold for $94 million.

Owned by the Ziff brothers who inherited the family property from their American publishing magnate father, William Bernard Ziff, Jr., the home had been in the family as a private getaway for over forty years and housed a stunning orchid collection of their mother. Heavily planted with tropical trees, shrubs and flowers and insulated from prying eyes by its acreage, it was almost like being on one?s own private island.
Built in the 1940s for the Lambert pharmaceutical family and designed by architect Marion Sims Wyeth, the estate was eventually sold to Loel and Gloria Guinness as a winter retreat. It was purchased by the current owners, the Ziff publishing family, in the 1980s and underwent a four-year expansion and reconstruction that was completed in 2003 including construction of a tunnel under A1A to access the guest house and boat dock on the Intracoastal.

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