In keeping with Jeffersonian tradition, a hedge fund manager tears down a recently built 44 million dollar house to build a bigger house.
His architect explains:
Architect Jaquelin Robertson of Cooper Robertson Architects told the Sagaponack architectural and historic review board that the new home would be a cedar-shingled two-story Georgian Colonial-style house and compared the mahogany window trim to renovations at President Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, according to minutes from the board’s March meeting.
I for one refuse to worry about the future of a country whose founding values are so scrupulously maintained.
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Update: A role model for America’s future business elite.
April 26th, 2011 at 11:17PM
There’s a back story on this. It was owned by the ex-wife of former Governor Jon Corzine. Corzine had also worked at Goldman Sachs and had refused to make Tepper a partner there. Tepper left Goldman and went on to found his own multibillion hedge fund. Demolishing the former Corzine house is simply sort of a little in-your-face douchebaggery.