Tour Martha’s Vineyard estate of Jackie Kennedy Onassis before it sells for $65 million
The private getaway of Jackie Kennedy Onassis remains on the market at a price tag of $65 million.
Four years after the 1975 death of her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O bought the 340 idyllic oceanfront acres in Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the Massachusetts coast, and commissioned architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen to design her house. She named the property Red Gate Farm.
The property contains a 6,456-square-foot cedar-shingled main residence, according to the Christie’s International Real Estate listing.
“When she found Red Gate Farm, it was a perfect expression of her romantic and adventurous spirit,” her daughter Caroline Kennedy wrote in a statement announcing the sale. “The dunes and ponds and rolling hills of Aquinnah gave her the chance to create a world where she could be so close to nature, close to her family and friends, and, most importantly, close to her beloved books.”
Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in 1994. Since then, Caroline and her husband Edwin Schlossberg have enlarged and renovated the house, the real estate website reported.
Carolyn Kennedy put the compound on the market in June 2019.
TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, which recently wrote about the property, gave permission this week to publish photos of the property, which can be seen in the video above.
Every room in the main house, except the dining room, overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. On the main level, there’s a formal sitting room with fireplace, a drawing room, living room, family room, library and expansive chef’s kitchen. Two decks outside face the sand dunes and the sea. Upstairs are four large en-suite bedrooms.
A Shingle-style guest house is part of Jacobson’s original design, according to Christie’s. That two-story residence features four bedrooms and three bathrooms, a living room, kitchen and laundry room.
Red Gate Farm accesses over a mile of private beachfront and offers two freshwater ponds, a vegetable garden and blueberry patch, an outdoor pool, tennis court and “a fairy treehouse,” which Onassis built for her grandchildren.
In the press release, Caroline Kennedy said it was time to move on.
“Those grandchildren are grown, so now it is time for us to follow my mother’s example and create our own worlds,” she said. “We hope that a new family will treasure this place as we have for three generations. We are excited about the next chapter for Red Gate Farm.”
The listing agents are Gerret Conover, Tom LeClair and Kathleen Coumou of LandVest Inc., Christie’s International Real Estate, Martha’s Vineyard.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was first lady during the presidency of John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
Editor’s note: Caroline Kennedy’s name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.
This story was originally published January 8, 2020 at 10:34 AM.
