An epic Atlanta estate long owned by former media executive John D. “Jack” Phillips is now on the market for the first time in almost two decades in the north Buckhead neighborhood, just west of Chastain Park, at $25 million.

Should the place go for anywhere near that amount, it would be one of the region’s most expensive residential real estate transactions ever recorded, eclipsing the nearly $20 million all-cash sale of a nearby home on Tuxedo Road in early 2024. A full-on replica of the nation’s White House that just hit the market for $35 million is currently the priciest offering in the area.

Records show Phillips acquired the compound with his wife, Cheryl, in 2008 for around $4 million. The couple subsequently completed the landscape design and added crushed slate trails that Jack uses for driving a golf cart around the property. Cheryl died in 2023 and Jack, who doesn’t keep horses on the land and uses the stables to store equipment, is planning to relocate to a smaller home in the city, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Designed and built for Mr. and Mrs. James Case Richards in the late 1990s by Cole & Cole Architects and Malone Construction Company, the 17-acre property boasts rose and cutting gardens, two greenhouses, horse stables, and a trio of spring-fed lakes. Per the listing, held by Chase Mizell and Joshua Reeves of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, the sprawling residence also has “expansive manicured lawns fit for polo, football, or grand-scale entertaining.”

Known as Woodbine and accessible via two gated entrances, the limestone-clad French Neoclassical manor has six bedrooms, eight full baths, and three powder rooms in roughly 15,000 square feet across three levels.

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Mahogany and glass front doors open into a double-height foyer displaying dual cantilevered staircases framed by leaded glass windows. From there, the main level features a living room anchored by a hand-carved stone fireplace and a formal dining room donning a crystal chandelier hanging from a decorative tracery ceiling, plus a posh primary suite with dual dressing rooms and baths.

Four en suite bedrooms, another living room, an office, and a media salon can be found upstairs, while the terrace level holds a wellness retreat sporting a fitness room, a sauna, and a resistance pool. An attached in-law or au pair suite has its own living area and kitchenette.

Beyond a tiered courtyard laced with a fountain and French formal gardens is the detached guesthouse, along with a cascading stone stairway descending to a vanishing-edge pool surrounded by mature crepe myrtles and boxwoods. Rounding it all off is garaging for up to five vehicles.

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