Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ former summer estate in Martha’s Vineyard is up for sale and her daughter Caroline Kennedy is overseeing the listing.
Red Gate Farm is Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ former Martha’s Vineyard home. Image by Christies Real Estate
Red Gare Farm, the 340-acre estate where the Kennedys routinely summered is on sale for a cool $65 million through Christies International Real Estate. Located on a more than a mile of private Atlantic beachfront, the home has been treasured and preserved by the family for 40 years. When Mrs Onassis purchased the Aquinnah property in 1979, she was drawn to the untamed beauty of the property’s coastal dunes, freshwater pools, and the abundance of plants, trees, birds and other wildlife.
Red Gate Farm is currently on the market for $65 million. Image by Christies Real Estate
“Forty years ago, my mother fell in love with Martha’s Vineyard,” said her daughter Caroline Kennedy. “When she found Red Gate Farm, it was a perfect expression of her romantic and adventurous spirit. 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.”
The family room at Red Gate Farm. Image by Christies Real Estate
The main residence has five en-suite bathrooms, two half baths, a chef’s kitchen equipped with professional grade appliances, two offices or artist studios. While the two-storey guest house has four bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and laundry. Outbuildings include two garages, a caretaker’s house with three bedrooms, a boathouse, a storage building, and a hunting cabin. There is also a pool and tennis court on the property.
Jackie Kennedy in Martha’s Vineyard in 1993 with the children of her daughter Caroline Kennedy (John, Rose and Tatiana Celia). Image by Barak/Elderfield/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, is an exclusive playground for the ultra-wealthy and famous. But it’s also a place of laid-back beaches, fishing villages, rolling hills and country inns. At Red Gate, Mrs Onassis created a home away from home for her family, even building a fairy treehouse for her, now grown, grandchildren. The Kennedys treasured this property for three generations and Caroline Kennedy says she hopes the new owners will do the same.
The front exterior of the main house. Image by Christies Real Estate
Red Gate Farm is being listed by Christie’s International Real Estate.
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