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"It is sad because it was sort of a landmark," Paul Mateyunas, a Long Island real estate agent and historian, told AFP. "It was one of the largest columned houses of that style on the waterfront."
Historians believe that Fitzgerald used the house as inspiration for the lavish backdrop to his 1925 book of money, love and broken dreams set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
"It's certainly something Fitzgerald, who was renting a house, would have been able to see if he went out on a boat or attended some of those parties. It was very much in his area," Mateyunas said.
Newsday, a local newspaper, said the house was the site of parties featuring everybody from Winston Churchill to the Marx Brothers in the 1920s and 30s.
However, the building fell into disrepair during a period of vacancy and the prime land was seen as having greater value than the historic house itself.
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Historians believe that Fitzgerald used the house as inspiration for the lavish backdrop to his 1925 book of money, love and broken dreams set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
"It's certainly something Fitzgerald, who was renting a house, would have been able to see if he went out on a boat or attended some of those parties. It was very much in his area," Mateyunas said.
Newsday, a local newspaper, said the house was the site of parties featuring everybody from Winston Churchill to the Marx Brothers in the 1920s and 30s.
However, the building fell into disrepair during a period of vacancy and the prime land was seen as having greater value than the historic house itself.
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