In 1910, an attorney named Albert Barnes Boardman bought close to 10 acres in downtown Southampton, N.Y., and spent $250,000 (approximately $30 million today) to build a 24-room, four-story mansion modeled after the Villa Medici in Rome. There were formal gardens, fountains, sprawling lawns, a tennis court, and a gatehouse.
The original house, modeled after the Villa Medici in Rome. Source: Houses of the Hamptons/Acanthus Press Boardman owned it until 1927, after which the house suff… (View original article)