The summer high season may be over, and the Maidstone Club closed up for the winter, but it was a record turnout for the annual East Hampton Historical Society’s House & Garden Tour over Thanksgiving weekend. The event, now in its 35th year, gives property-mad looky-loos the opportunity to have a first-hand peek at some of the wealthy resort community’s finest examples of architecture and design. 

One of the 10 residences featured on this year’s fundraising tour sits on almost 2.5 acres bordered by preserved land along Cove Hollow Farm Road, a sleepy lane in East Hampton’s Georgica Estate Section. It also happens to be for sale with Martha Gunderson of Douglas Elliman at a whisper under $25 million.

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Completed in 2006 with an oblique, across-the-street view of Georgica Cove, the shingled cottage is a rambling affair wrapped almost entirely by covered porches with two eye-catching semicircular bays at opposite ends. Architect Greg Zwirko and builder Pat Trunzo designed and executed the zigzagging residence, while Edmund Hollander created the privacy-promoting landscaping. Traditional elements—eyebrow dormers, mullioned windows, inlaid wood floors, and beamed ceilings—ground the building in a comforting sense of timelessness, while modern systems, such as seven-zone central air conditioning and geothermal heating, ensure 21st-century comfort.

Throughout its 7,300 square feet are six bedrooms and five bathrooms, plus two more powder rooms. A couple of the bedrooms are accessible by a separate entrance off the semi-detached two-car garage, making them ideal as guest or staff quarters, and the poolside casita has a lounge with a kitchenette and another half-bath, along with an outdoor shower.

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The elegantly proportioned step-down living room, 32 feet long with a stately fireplace and three sets of French doors that swing open to a covered patio, and the eight-sided dining room are complemented by a country kitchen with custom cabinetry and all the culinary bells and whistles. There’s also a commodious 700-square-foot family room, a home office, and a screened porch with one of the home’s four fireplaces.

Preserved land and towering stands of mature trees ensure total privacy from neighboring estates with manicured lawns meandering across an idyllic landscape that includes a formal garden, a secluded pool with a spillover spa, and, almost completely hidden by towering arborvitae, a tennis court.

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