Nelson DeMille tore down an existing house in Garden City, N.Y., to build this Tudor-style mansion. Credit...Tyler Sands/Sands Media House
A Nassau County listing is so grandiose in style and stature that it must be out of a Nelson DeMille novel.
Fitting, as it was the famed author’s former home.
Mr. DeMille, who died in September at 81, bought the 0.7-acre property in 2001 for $2.9 million. He tore the existing house down and replaced it with a 9,731-square-foot Tudor-style manse. It’s now for sale by his estate for $5.5 million.
The author, who was raised in nearby Elmont, N.Y., always wanted a house on the Hill, a ritzy neighborhood in Garden City, and jumped at the opportunity to buy the property, said his son, the writer and director Alexander DeMille.