Sport Island sits in New York’s Thousand Islands, the St. Lawrence River archipelago along the Canadian border that became one of the Gilded Age’s fashionable summer destinations. Built around 1880 for a prominent Pennsylvania railroad-industrialist family, the property has since undergone a substantial partial restoration.
Designed by Horace Trumbauer, whose work includes the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Gilded Age mansion retains a four-story Carrara marble staircase, Samuel Yellin ironwork, and original Louis XV-style salon rooms across more than 10,000 ft² / 929 m².
A beautifully restored townhouse in Felanitx, the historic market town often described as the “real Mallorca”, combines natural materials and a low-tox approach to construction, with quietly contemporary interiors and a rooftop terrace above village life, steps from the local market.
The nearly 2-acre Shakespeare Chateau Inn & Gardens estate in St. Joseph, Missouri, includes three historic buildings: the 1885 main residence, a carriage house with three apartments, and a pre-Civil War brick house that remains largely undeveloped and in need of restoration.
The 5-bedroom farmhouse was built around a 13th-century watchtower, with views across the rolling Tuscan hills, around 30 minutes from Siena and under an hour from Florence.
After decades at the centre of one of Europe’s most glamorous social worlds, Beatriz Patiño commissioned a private residence of her own beside the famous Patiño Palace in Cascais, near Lisbon.
After decades at the centre of one of Europe’s most glamorous social worlds, Beatriz Patiño commissioned a private residence of her own beside the famous Patiño Palace in Cascais, near Lisbon.
Just above the Arctic Circle, on Norway’s Lofoten Islands, this white 1950 farmhouse sits between wildflower meadows, steep mountains, fjords and white-sand beaches.
Built for Virginia’s Randolph family in the 1730s, the former plantation known as Tuckahoe was home to Thomas Jefferson for seven years of his childhood and still contains the schoolhouse where he received some of his earliest education.
Before the Statue of Liberty stood over New York Harbor, she rose above the rooftops of Paris. A former artist’s atelier is for sale on the street where the Statue of Liberty was built and assembled at the workshops of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie.
Once home to Sophia Loren and her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, this secluded villa on Rome’s Appian Way sits above an ancient basalt quarry, with Roman mosaics, 2,000-year-old fragments and a history tied to Cinecittà, Rome’s legendary film studio and the heart of Italy’s postwar cinema.
Portrait artist to European royalty and leading cultural figures, Michele Gordigiani reshaped Striano with architect Luigi Del Moro as a house for painting, music and entertaining. Its extraordinary limonaia draws on the same Florentine garden tradition as the famous grotto at the Boboli Gardens.
For a California family dreaming of a home in Paris, Callender Howorth transformed a stripped-back apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower into a deeply personal residence, rebuilding it from the brick up within a historic 1910 building.
Brechin Castle has stood on Scotland’s east coast for more than 700 years, shaped by kings, war, rebellion and generations of aristocratic families. Its grounds include one of Scotland’s most remarkable private gardens.
Behind Great Elm’s soaring glass atrium is a Buckley family estate shaped by Mexican architectural details, political gatherings and guests from Ronald Reagan to Sylvia Plath. Divided in the 1980s, the mansion could now be reunited as a single home.
Westerly Estate’s story stretches from Fletcher Jones’s 4,000-acre thoroughbred empire to one of the pioneering vineyards that helped shape Happy Canyon wine country.
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Sport Island sits in New York’s Thousand Islands, the St. Lawrence River archipelago along the Canadian border that became one of the Gilded Age’s fashionable summer destinations. Built around 1880 for a prominent Pennsylvania railroad-industrialist family, the property has since undergone a substantial partial restoration.
The 5-bedroom farmhouse was built around a 13th-century watchtower, with views across the rolling Tuscan hills, around 30 minutes from Siena and under an hour from Florence.
Known as the “green heart of Italy,” Umbria is home to this historic Antico Borgo Rurale, where a group of old farm buildings has been restored as one private estate.
“What separates Staples Point is that its greatest assets can’t be recreated,” says listing agent Sam Michaud of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty. “The land, the frontage, the five lighthouse views, the privacy and the proximity to Portland cannot be replicated.”
A 10,800 ft² Greek Revival townhouse overlooking Washington Square Park has come to market after more than 60 years in the same family.
The property offers both scale and charming setting in a region gaining international attention for its wines and landscapes.
Set within the Sciusa Valley near Noli and Spotorno, the 3-bedroom residence occupies the villa’s piano nobile, its principal reception floor, with vaulted ceilings, 18th-century frescoes, private grounds and a swimming pool.
Perched above the surrounding vineyards, this rose-coloured French bastide takes in broad views across the Provençal coast near Cassis, a historic fishing port on the French Riviera about 30 minutes east of Marseille.
Once home to Sophia Loren and her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, this secluded villa on Rome’s Appian Way sits above an ancient basalt quarry, with Roman mosaics, 2,000-year-old fragments and a history tied to Cinecittà, Rome’s legendary film studio and the heart of Italy’s postwar cinema.
For someone dreaming of restoring a château in the Loire Valley, less than 2 hours from Paris, much of the original fabric remains intact and ready for its next chapter.
Less than an hour from Rome, this restored 19th-century farmhouse sits on nearly 10 acres in the Etruscan countryside. Rebuilt from a ruin by 21-year-old photographer Filippo Chia, it reflects both his family’s Renaissance roots and the international art world he grew up around.
Just beyond Aix, this 19th-century residence feels surprisingly removed from the city, with 3.45 acres (1.4 hectares) of gardens crossed by a stream, fountains and terraces looking toward Sainte-Victoire—the mountain Cézanne painted more than 80 times.
Behind Great Elm’s soaring glass atrium is a Buckley family estate shaped by Mexican architectural details, political gatherings and guests from Ronald Reagan to Sylvia Plath. Divided in the 1980s, the mansion could now be reunited as a single home.
A medieval château in France’s Jura wine region, rebuilt in the 1440s and later visited by Henri IV, includes an unexpected chapter as a nightclub that operated for roughly 30 years.
A 1774 Hudson Valley farmhouse is for sale with the historic barn where Joan Osofsky founded Hammertown, the much-loved furnishings and antiques business that helped shape the region’s relaxed country style.
Set in Andlau, a historic wine village on the Alsace Wine Route in eastern France, the house was updated in the 1970s around a sculptural fireplace by Jacques Couëlle, a distinctive figure in postwar French architecture known for his organic, sculptural houses.
Minutes from the historic centre of Cortona, a cypress-lined drive leads not to the intimate farmhouse fantasy popularised by Under the Tuscan Sun, but to a vast aristocratic residence shaped by one prominent family over several centuries.
Set above the Côte d’Azur near Valbonne, this 4-bedroom villa offered through Lazazu in one-eighth shares presents a more flexible way to own a fully managed second home in the South of France.
Bourg-en-Bresse is probably not the first place that comes to mind when searching for a château in France—and that is partly what makes this one so interesting.
While Como and Maggiore draw the crowds, Lake Orta remains the quieter insider’s choice—a smaller northern Italian lake favored by those seeking discretion, character and a slower pace.
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Designed by Horace Trumbauer, whose work includes the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Gilded Age mansion retains a four-story Carrara marble staircase, Samuel Yellin ironwork, and original Louis XV-style salon rooms across more than 10,000 ft² / 929 m².
A beautifully restored townhouse in Felanitx, the historic market town often described as the “real Mallorca”, combines natural materials and a low-tox approach to construction, with quietly contemporary interiors and a rooftop terrace above village life, steps from the local market.
Set in Andlau, a historic wine village on the Alsace Wine Route in eastern France, the house was updated in the 1970s around a sculptural fireplace by Jacques Couëlle, a distinctive figure in postwar French architecture known for his organic, sculptural houses.
Châteaux and Castles
For someone dreaming of restoring a château in the Loire Valley, less than 2 hours from Paris, much of the original fabric remains intact and ready for its next chapter.
Brechin Castle has stood on Scotland’s east coast for more than 700 years, shaped by kings, war, rebellion and generations of aristocratic families. Its grounds include one of Scotland’s most remarkable private gardens.
A medieval château in France’s Jura wine region, rebuilt in the 1440s and later visited by Henri IV, includes an unexpected chapter as a nightclub that operated for roughly 30 years.
Designed by Horace Trumbauer, whose work includes the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Gilded Age mansion retains a four-story Carrara marble staircase, Samuel Yellin ironwork, and original Louis XV-style salon rooms across more than 10,000 ft² / 929 m².