Jackie Kennedy's childhood summer home just hit the market. Here's a look inside the 125-year-old Hamptons property.
Melissa Wiley
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- Wildmoor, the East Hampton property where Jackie Kennedy Onassis summered as a young girl, has hit the market for $7.5 million.
- Onassis' grandparents owned Wildmoor, and Onassis would travel with her parents to the home from their apartment on Park Avenue.
- The six-bedroom home features a wrap-around porch and colorful, tiled fireplaces. It's also just a short walk to the beach.
- The listing is represented by Paula Butler of Sotheby's International Realty.
- Here's a look inside the summer Hamptons home of former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
Wildmoor, the East Hampton home where Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent childhood summers, is on sale for $7.5 million.
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Wall Street Journal's Katherine Clarke first reported the listing, which Paula Butler of Sotheby's International Realty represents.
Wildmoor was originally built in 1895 and is located on a quiet residential street in East Hampton, New York, just a short walk from the beach.
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Onassis' grandparents owned the home for decade and kept it for family use even after they moved to a larger Hamptons estate in 1925, Clarke reported. Onassis lived in Manhattan during the year and would spend summers at Wildmoor as a young girl.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis is pictured at age four with her mother in East Hampton in August 1933.
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In addition to its wrap-around porch, the home has several distinctive features, like this light-filled breakfast nook ...
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... and nearby sun room.
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The sun room opens up to a pergola-covered terrace surrounded by greenery.
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The interior is dominated by wood paneling, from the main staircase ...
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... to the dining room ...
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... to the living room.
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The home also contains playful details, like this tiled fireplace ...
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... and pink-and-green floral wallpaper.
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It has six bedrooms ...
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... and four bathrooms, one of which features this clawfoot bathtub.
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Abstract expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb bought the property in 1960 so that he could be near the ocean, according to the listing.
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His airy barn studio is still in the garden.
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