Meadowcroft, The Last Remaining Long Island Home By Famed Architect Wilson Eyre, Is For Sale

Meadowcroft, the last remaining Long Island home by famed architect and House & Garden magazine founder Wilson Eyre, has entered the market for $13 million with Enzo Morabito of Douglas Elliman.

The circa-1904 Arts and Crafts-style estate — located at 771 Montauk Highway in Quiogue — was built by Eyre for industrialist Theodore Conklin. Conklin’s grandson, Ted, a former mayor of Westhampton Beach, was born at the family home. His great grandson, Ted Conklin, owns the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. Five generations of the Conklin family gathered, sailed, played, and lived at the mansion, sited on Quantuck Bay, before selling it in 1989.

Meadowcroft is a 6.91-acre waterfront estate and 9,000-square-foot home, which features eight bedrooms and seven-and-a-half baths.

The lighting in the home was done by Louis Comfort Tiffany, a friend of Conklins, whose business was around the corner from T.E. Conklin Brass & Copper on Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan. Tiffany used Conklin’s metal fabrications in brass and bronze for his famed lamps.

In addition to the Tiffany lighting, the home still features the original woodwork, hardware, and other touches — including the original 1904-engraved door knocker and the original double-swing carriage doors, a number of custom fireplaces, and 100-plus-year-old rhododendrons.

Notable amenities include a brick-ceilinged basement, a red clay roof with tiles that were imported from France, oversized swimming pool that overlooks the bay, a dock, wine cellar, movie screening room, billiards room and outdoor billiard table, gym, staff quarters with separate entrance, a small cottage, and accessory buildings.

The estate is the focus of the book “Meadowcroft: A Century of Elegance in the Hamptons” by Michael McKenzie. It’s also featured in the seminal East End architectural history book, “Houses of the Hamptons: 1880 – 1930” by Gary Lawrance and Anne Surchin.