The house where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis spent childhood summers, is coming on the market for $7.5 million.

Known as Wildmoor, the three-story East Hampton home dates back to the late 1800s. In the early 1900s it belonged to Ms. Onassis’ grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr.

When Ms. Onassis was a young child, she spent summers at Wildmoor with her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, according to the book "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Friend of the Arts."

Wildmoor is now owned by the estate of the late Richard D. Spizzirri, a lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell who died in 2015.

The main house has six bedrooms and spans about 4,500 square feet, with a gabled roof, wraparound porch and a large second-floor terrace, according to listing agent Paula Butler of Sotheby’s International Realty.

The house still has many historic details, including wood paneling, an antique claw foot bathtub, and a fireplace clad in colorful patterned tile. The wallpaper may even be original.

The nearly 1-acre property also includes a free-standing former carriage house. A former owner of the house, the late abstract expressionist Adolph Gottlieb, turned it into a studio and used it to paint and to display his work, Ms. Butler said.

Source : WSJ - Katherine Clarke