The home was built for Henry Clay Frick II, the grandson of the legendary coke and steel magnate, and was sold, along with the surrounding acreage, to real estate developer Richard Kurtz in 2006
The 1930s Alpine mansion built for Henry Clay Frick II, the grandson and namesake of the famed industrialist and art collector, has come on the market for $27.8 million, making it the second priciest listing in North Jersey, and the third in the state.
The 12.77-acre estate off Closter Dock Road is part of a larger tract of land that the Fricks sold in 2006 for $58 million to real estate investor Richard Kurtz, who subdivided it for an ultra-luxury gated development. The Estates at Alpine includes the 30,000-square-foot Stone Mansion, complete with a ballroom and indoor basketball court and currently on the market for a whopping $48.8 million, and a 20,000-square-foot French chateau-style home owned by former New Jersey Devil Ilya Kovalchuk.
The Frick mansion was built in the English manor style and has six bedrooms and seven full baths, while the property features a large stocked pond, gardens, an aviary and a carriage house. The property taxes are $193,538.84, according to the New Jersey Division of Taxation. It's represented by Sharon Kurtz of Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty.
It was home to Frick, a noted doctor and Columbia University professor and the longtime president of the board of New York's Frick Collection, for most of his life. In fact, Kurtz's arrangement with the family stipulated that Frick be allowed to stay in the home until his death. He died in 2007.
The Stone Mansion is the most expensive home on the market in New Jersey, followed by a $40 million oceanfront estate in Long Branch that came on the market in September.
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