See inside the $45 million "Gatsby mansion" on sale in NY

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• Inside a $67M NYC Mansion with Spa
• Here’s the Estate that Served as Inspiration for “The Great Gatsby’s” Opulent House in the 2013 Movie
• Inside A $350K Per Month Mountainside Resort Mansion
• Take a look inside the mansion that inspired 'The Great Gatsby' movie set
• Inside a $195M Bel Air Estate With Secret Tunnels

Step inside Long Island’s Gold Coast for a look into the elegant and opulent lifestyles of the elite. Owned by past presidents, artists and aristocracy, many of these homes once hosted royalty, heads of state and stars such as Charlie Chaplin. Often the backdrop for Hollywood productions, the Gold Coast mansions also served as inspiration for The Great Gatsby.

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So what do you get for living like Gatsby himself? Oh, just an outdoor pool with a water slide, indoor pools if the weather is bad, a hair salon, and 7.7 acres of party-worthy property. Not included is the yellow car, but that's probably for the best as it turned out to be really unlucky for our tragic hero. The private pier doesn't feature an orgiastic green light on the other side, either, but if you have a 200-foot yacht handy, you could more than make use of it, old sport.

Here’s the Estate that Served as Inspiration for “The Great Gatsby’s” Opulent House in the 2013 Movie

The sinister gangster Meyer Wolfsheim (Eric Anderson) is now a jazzy scoundrel with the tinted glasses and slicked-back hair of a rock-band manager in the 1980s. Its lead actors, Jeremy Jordan as the self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada as his dream girl, Daisy Buchanan, have deluxe voices, and the score gives them plenty to sing. If you want production values, this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, directed by Marc Bruni, delivers more than any other new musical of the overstuffed Broadway season. It’s the Roaring Twenties, after all—now as well as then—so why not be loud? Let other shows make do with skeletal, functional multipurpose scenic design; these sets and projections, by Paul Tate de Poo III, offer grandly scaled Art Deco instead.

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The Gold Coast started at Great Neck, where Fitzgerald lived and ran along the Long Island Sound to Centerport. When Fitzgerald wrote, "The Great Gatsby", he didn't use just one house or location, but combined many and moved them all around, sometimes those that were almost next to each other ending up being moved across the water. The house has certainly captured the imagination of the film's adapters.

It also incorporates two separate guest homes that come with an indoor pool, as well as a bowling alley, a shooting range, and even a casino. The North Shore "Gold Coast" on the Long Island Sound boasts a history of affluence, with private estates of Vanderbilts, Roosevelts, and others of Gilded Age fortune built there at the turn of the 20th century. It seems the good life is—in some way, during nearly every time period, and by most members of society—both pursued wholeheartedly and viewed as a curse in disguise. That contradiction is why, when someone makes a film about the vacuity of a life filled with money, we’ll always have the grand old mansions to shoot it in.

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Fitzgerald’s prose is beautifully poetic, but Kerrigan and Howland’s phrasing sounds nothing like his, so when the characters occasionally slip into quotes they sound unnatural, like forced recitations. John Zdrojeski as Tom Buchanan, Sara Chase as Myrtle, and Paul Whitty as Wilson are perfectly capable, if somewhat unoriginal. Noah J. Ricketts, our Nick Carraway, is less a voyeur and more a nonentity, overshadowed by the musical’s grandeur.

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If you think that's a little steep, it's actually on sale — in 2015, it was reportedly on the market for $100 million. “The town of Lake Forest tends to be very private,” Jeanette says. “We haven’t had too many people reach out to us.” Boundaries have always been paramount in Lake Forest. The town was off-limits to Black and Jewish people for decades, and even during the First World War a middle-class Catholic like Fitzgerald showing up could have caused a stir. Grand homes went up as the 1900s began, including Edith Rockefeller McCormick’s Villa Turicum, and while many of these homes were influenced by European design, Van Doren Shaw was interested in the American take on the Arts and Crafts movement.

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And Lake Forest would forever stay in his mind as more than a place, as an ideal. Kingdom Come Farm, the sprawling mansion built for the Kings in 1906 by Howard Van Doren Shaw, served as the heart of the writer’s life in this period, and today it’s once again the grand house it used to be. Fitzgerald, of course, drew from many sources to create a spectacle that, when pulled apart, really did exist. But the full spectrum of all that the house reflected is still revealing itself, what with the shady pool murders and state of estates continually in flux. As if Fitzgerald was in touch with our times to a psychic degree, too, the recession did not spare the Gold Coast and left many dreamlike mansions ownerless—green lights in their own right that slip back out of reach with a single change of tide.

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Even the Hodgkinsons were initially unaware of the connection. The property continued to deteriorate until it was sold in April 2012 for much below its $39.5 million asking price, a fate similar to so many others of its kind. Nearly one-half of the homes that once gleamed along the Gold Coast were abandoned after the Great Depression and torn down by the ‘70s. Even for American royalty, triple-digit acreage and double-digit staffs were too much to fund forever. Like Gatsby’s “huge incoherent failure of a house,” they drowned in their own sauce.

Of all the fictionalized places to live, there are few that have remained dignified in their power of fantasy for as long as Jay Gatsby’s mansion. Its opulence, raucous throw-downs, and deep metaphors have rendered it one of the sexiest houses ever conjured and the everlasting cathedral of the Jazz Age. Right down to Gatsby’s then-state-of-the-art juicer, Fitzgerald spared no corner from lavishness, and to the scrupulous who may think it all too over the top to ever have existed, guess what—it did. Short of a swimming pool, the 5-acre estate possesses practically every Gatsby-esque feature imaginable.

Interestingly enough, the house only served as a starting point for the set designers working on the 2013 movie. The main house is the epitome of Jazz Age luxury, featuring multiple wine cellars and tasting rooms, a hair salon, a ballroom, fitness and yoga studios, tennis and racquetball courts, Turkish baths, and several indoor and outdoor swimming pools. He used a 1928-built estate in Kings Point to serve as the inspiration for Jay Gatsby’s house in his blockbuster movie which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire. Finished in 1919, the main building's 127 rooms sit amid a 443-acre plot. The house, designed by Delano & Aldrich, was built on an artificial hill, giving it a splendid view of the Cold Spring Harbor. Myths abound on which mansions inspired the Gatsby castle and the Buchanan home.

Now, The Great Gatsby is the latest to throw its boater hat into the ring in a lavish new production that, sadly, values spectacle over substance. NEW YORK — The orgiastic delights of Jay Gatsby’s parties mostly lurk between the lines of F. But there is nothing coy about the extravagant stage musical that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre, where a cascade of visual splendors showers the eye like a fire hose.

"The house perches on its site," says Daniel Gale Sotheby's agent Nava Mitnick. "The way it sits back on its lawn makes a very casual and comfortable stroll down to the water." To give him some credit, Fitzgerald didn’t spend all of his nights going to parties. For Chapter 3, the entirety of which is devoted to describing Nick’s first Gatsby party, what name should appear but the “Swopes.” Architecturally, there is nothing château-esque that aligns.

Boasting 18 bedrooms and 32 bathrooms over 60,000 square feet of space, the magnificent waterfront property at 26 Pond Road sits on over 8 acres of land. Sit on your private beach and if you stare hard enough across the water, maybe you'll see the green light from Daisy's dock. Located at 235 Middle Neck Road in Sands Point, New York, the estate was purchased in 1923 by Mary Harriman Rumsey, daughter of railroad magnate EH Harriman and sister of 48th Governor of New York W. Averell Harriman.