Late newspaper publisher’s Old Brookville mansion lists at $13M

A French Normandy-style mansion in the Village of Old Brookville has hit the market for $12.5 million, according to the Long Island Press. The home at 289 Piping Rock Road, known as Woodside, was designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris and built in 1928 for Fremont Carson Peck, the former publisher of the Brooklyn Daily Times and the Brooklyn Times-Union. The Gold Coast estate later went through significant renovations. Woodside has eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, four half bathrooms, an eat-in kitchen, a separate prep kitchen, a game room, a wine cellar, four fireplaces and a gym. Sitting on a 12-acre lot, the home also has a separate three-bedroom cottage, a detached three-car garage, a saltwater pool, a pool house and a tennis court. Christina Porter and Robert Hulse of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty have the listing. Woodside isn’t the only high-end home on the market in Old Brookville, which is within the Town of Oyster Bay. CBS New York noted in late May a 12,500-square-foot new build at 2 Brook Lane listed with Nest Seekers International’s Zach Elliott at $7.9 million. [Long Island Press]