Forbes

LIVE LIKE A ROCKEFELLE­R

Three of the family’s estates are up for sale. Plus: Three waste wunderkind­s.

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Location: 146 e. 65th St., Manhattan Listed Price: $32.5 million

Year Built: 1924 vital Statistics: 9,777 square feet, 8 beds, 8 baths amenities: Temperatur­e-controlled wine vault, 6 staff bedrooms, library, elevator notable neighbors: Billionair­e Chase Coleman; Loews Corp. cochairman Jonathan Tisch Lore: David and his wife, Peggy, purchased the Upper East Side residence in 1948 (as he began his career at Chase Manhattan Bank). They raised their six children in the double-wide town house and displayed much of their 2,000-item art collection (Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin) on its walls. Recollecti­ons: “While I was at Columbia, I would often go for dinner and spend the night at 65th Street with Grandpa,” recalls David’s granddaugh­ter, Ariana Rockefelle­r, a Forbes.com contributo­r. “We would talk about my studies, and he would tell me about his time at Chase—how he would leave in the morning and take the subway to lower Manhattan with his newspaper folded in half lengthwise so he could read in the crowded cars.”

Location: 180 Bedford Road, Sleepy hollow, new York Listed Price: $22 million

Year Built: 1938 vital Statistics: 11,343 square feet, 11 beds, 12 baths, 75-acre lot amenities: Hudson River views, extensive gardens, 3-bedroom gatehouse, 6-stall barn, 3 greenhouse­s, apple orchard and helipad neighbors: Investors George Soros, Daniel Och and Michael Steinhardt Lore: Mott Schmidt, an architect favored among the New York elite, designed the place, which lies less than 2 miles from Kykuit, the estate once belonging to David’s progenitor grandfathe­r, John D. Rockefelle­r Sr. David would later found the nearby Stone Barns Center for Food & Agricultur­e to honor his wife after her death. Recollecti­ons: “Grandpa and I would sit together and look out over the lawn watching the fireflies. [David was a noted expert on insects.] He would explain to me that they are insects in the Lampyridae family, in the beetle order of Coleoptera.”

Location: Ringing Point, Seal harbor, Maine Listed Price: $19 million

Year Built: 1972 vital Statistics: 5,034 square feet, 7 beds, 5.5 baths, 14.5-acre lot amenities: Granite swimming pool, rose garden, orchard, guest cottage, nearby Acadia National Park neighbors: Billionair­e shoe heiress Susan Alfond, Martha Stewart Lore: Like many turn-of-the-century elite, David’s parents summered near Bar Harbor, and his father would donate 45 miles of rustic carriage roads to Acadia National Park in 1913. In Maine, David “learned to sail and developed a deep interest in nature,” he noted in his 2002 Memoirs, much of which he wrote from the home’s study overlookin­g the harbor. Recollecti­ons: “Christmas was spent in Maine. We would all gather for Christmas morning to open presents by the fire and then have Christmas lunch together.”

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