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History: Gold Coast Mansion Inspiration For Great Gatsby


One of the many Gold Coast mansions that lays claim to be the inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gapsby, the 140-room Beacon House in Sands Point was built from 1918 for Alva Belmont, the ex-wife of William K. Vanderbilt. Belmont was a involved in the women’s suffragist movement and once ran a girl’s farm school at her mansion. William Randolph Hearst purchased the mansion from Belmont in 1927. Three years after Hearst sold it in 1942, Beacon Towers was demolished.