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Author: Lyndsay Mcgregor
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Watch the sun disappear behind the bay from this six-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot property built in the highest area in the Hamptons. Sitting on five acres, this Water Mill house is actually the dream home of the Breitenbach family. Built by patriarch Steve and his company, Breitenbach’s Builders, the job took three years -- a third of which was spent just chiseling out the exterior stone work. Inside, the manor boasts custom-built Michael Reilly mahogany French doors, antique alder-wood coffered ceilings, radiant-heated floors and a paneled elevator. An expansive eat-in kitchen at the back of the house overlooks the vast lawns, designed by Edmund Hollander, and opens onto the home’s impressive west facing backyard, with its heated infinity pool, Jacuzzi and six foot stone waterfall. Other features include a second-floor loggia (an open-air room) as well as eight bedrooms, five fireplaces and a generator to power the whole house in case of a blackout. Also available for purchase is a separate two-and-a-half-acre plot next door – plenty of room to add a great guest house, a pool and tennis courts. But the best feature of the home, Steve says, is something he couldn’t build. “The sunsets are to die for. Every night it’s different, so that will be missed,” he says. “Now someone else will get to enjoy it.” Listed at $14.995 million ($16.5 million with extra lot) by Susan Breitenbach, The Corcoran Group, Bridgehampton.


Water Mill