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Gloria Crest, New Jersey Mansion
Sep 4, 2021
Gloria Swanson?s New Jersey Mansion Sells For Peanuts!
Location: Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Gloria Crest Mansion
Source: www.toptenrealestatedeals.com
Well…not exactly peanuts, but perhaps the deal of the year! An Englewood, New Jersey mansion that was built for Polish royalty and was once owned by Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan, who gifted it to his mistress, silent-film-star Gloria Swanson, has sold for $4.6 million, or about 88% under its original asking price of $39 million.

Gloria Crest, surprisingly named for the location and not Gloria Swanson, was built in 1926 by Count Stefan Poniatowski, who claimed to be the heir to Polish royalty. The count had made millions in the silk industry and built the mansion as a testament to his wealth. His wife, Edythe, landscaped the walled five acres with exotic gardens which still contain rare horticultural examples today. When the stock market crashed in 1929, the count sold the villa to Kennedy, who turned around and gifted it to Ms. Swanson.
Designed to resemble an Italian villa in the Renaissance Revival style encompassing 24,000 square feet on five acres of land, the home stood out in the well-to-do community and was often referred to as the White House of Englewood.

The mansion was originally priced at $39 million in 2013 before a series of price reductions to...