Montauk’s famed Stone House, where John Lennon and Andy Warhol once frolicked, has found a buyer, Gimme Shelter has learned.
The rustic, 112-year-old residence, perched on a bluff 70 feet above the ocean, sits on 3.2 acres. It was on the market asking $18 million.
The sale of 408 Montauk Highway will be all-cash, and it follows a fierce bidding war, sources told Gimme. The buyers, we hear, are foreign nationals with two of their three children still in school — high school and college — in the US, and who own homes all over the world. The final sale price is not yet known.
“The family collects fine homes. They are looking to restore the property — to elevate it, but not change it, and to bring it back it to its original grandeur,” a source said.
A couple of weeks ago, May Pang, John Lennon’s former mistress, stopped by to tour the home — 50 years after she first saw it with John Lennon.
“She first saw the house from a fishing boat when she was with John, and they wanted to buy it,” said Kyle Rosko, a Douglas Elliman broker who shares the listing with his colleague, Marcy Braun.
(In August, Pang’s exhibit, “The Lost Weekend: The Photography of May Pang,” came to Sag Harbor. It features candid photos of Lennon — some in the Hamptons — taken during their 18-month affair from 1973 to 1975.)
At one time in the 1960s/early ’70s, the home was owned by a New York City society couple. In fact, Warhol reportedly bought his nearby compound after he spent time in the Stone House and fell in love with it, Rosko said.
The Stone House was later owned by the interior designer Tony Ingrao, who rebuilt it after a fire in 1991.
A wood gate and stone pillars open to a tree-lined driveway that leads inside.
The charming home comes with two bedrooms, 2.5 baths, arched doors — and views of the ocean, the lighthouse and Block Island. Design details include beamed and vaulted ceilings, and multiple stone fireplaces.
Outside, wooden stairs lead to the ocean below.
Behind the Stone House, there’s a 600-square-foot artist’s studio loft, with a covered porch overlooking an orchard and open fields.
Behind that is “a third oasis,” which includes a 186-square-foot pool house with a bath, an outdoor shower — and a pond-shaped saltwater pool that is 32 feet deep.
The first floor boasts an eat-in chef’s kitchen with hand-painted custom cabinets and arched doors that showcase ocean views. A hand-painted wood staircase in the foyer leads to a main bedroom suite that takes up an entire floor. It features 14-foot-high vaulted ceilings and a spa-like marble and stone bath, plus a balcony.
The seller is Judy Ehrenwald, whose late husband Jerry Ehrenwald was in the diamond business, heading the North American division of the International Gemological Institute from 1991 to 2019.
The property comes with “so much interesting history — and energy,” Rosko said. “The people who have been here are incredible.”
