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"One of the few surviving grand Long Island country houses from the Jazz Age, it stands as a memorial to a Gatsby lifestyle; Baz Luhrmann used its exterior as the setting for Daisy Buchanan and her patrician husband Tom in his kinetic 2013 interpretation of The Great Gatsby. Built in 1904 for John Shaffer Phipps—whose father Henry rose from poverty to become Andrew Carnegie’s partner in the steel company that helped build America—it embodies the era’s opulence even as many contemporaries have been demolished." - Hamish Bowles