Grey gardens house

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful mansion built in the Hamptons called Grey Gardens. Grey Gardens got its name from the cement garden walls, the color of the dunes and the sea mist. Grey Gardens would become notorious for its eccentric mother and daughter inhabitants, Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, after a series of twists and turns, brought them cult status and notoriety. A reverse story of riches to rags with celebrity relatives always makes for a great tale. A14 room shingle style…

The new owners of Grey Gardens have begun renovating the legendary property in East Hampton. Here's a look at the work they're doing.

Chances have just declined that later this year the premiere of “The Post,” the Steven Spielberg film about Ben Bradlee,

Grey Gardens was the Hamptons home once owned by eccentric relatives of Jacqueline...

Photographed by Herb Goro, December 1971 for New York Magazine. Actually amazing!

It’s hard to understand how this sweet faced child and her mother – perfectly dressed for an afternoon party – could end up as the reclusive, eccentric women that they did, living out their lives in squalor – but that is exactly what happened. I know everyone has probably overdosed on Grey Gardens, but just this week, Architectural Digest trotted out long unseen photographs of Sally Quinn’s restoration of the famous East Hampton’s mansion, once owned by Jacqueline Kennedy’s aunt Edith Ewing…

Restoring the Beauty of Grey Gardens in East Hampton

Alec Baldwin, Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn, and others discuss their adventures in restoring historic homes

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Ever since the release of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, the ramshackle East Hampton estate and its reclusive inhabitants have exerted a mysterious pull. What many don't know, however, is that the grey-shingled house is...

Grey Gardens

A new house that was inspired by Grey Gardens is for sale in Massachusetts. It sits on nearly 2 acres overlooking Oyster Pond in Upper Cape Cod.

For the first time since 1979, Grey Gardens, the 7-bedroom estate at 3 West End Road in East Hampton that once belonged to Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Beale, is on the market.

Ben Bradlee, who was editor of the Washington Post when the newspaper's exposure of Watergate led to the downfall of President Nixon, died yesterday at age 93. He and wife Sally Quinn, also a...

1972 "Little Edie" from Grey Gardens poses in her house filled with garbage. Nice cat photo bomb

How Ben Bradlee and his wife restored Grey Gardens - Curbed

“We thought it might be fun for you to start your story by saying, ‘The Beales were...

Photographic slide originally taken in 1914 by Frances Benjamin Johnston of Grey Gardens as it originally looked when it was famous for its gardens - enhanced and borders / corners removed