Lands End, a magnificent estate on Long Island’s North Shore, fired the imagination of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who lived across the bay, as he wrote the classic The Great Gatsby.
But time did not treat Lands End as well as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, and in 2011 the 21,000-sq.-ft. mansion went under the wrecking ball.
Featured on “Sunday Morning” April 17, 2011, the demolition marked the end of an era—one that once glimmered with champagne dreams and roaring twenties grandeur.
Did the Gatsby house deserve landmark status—or was it always destined to fade like the green light? Drop your thoughts below.
