Price for late composer’s Sands Point home keeps marching south

The latest cut to the asking price for composer John Philip Sousa’s former home in Sands Point has brought it down to $8.995 million, Forbes reported. The waterfront property 12 Hicks Lane, which is known as Wildbank, hit the market last July for $9.85 million and had its price trimmed earlier this year to $9.45 million. The 6,000-square-foot home has six bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms, a gym, loggia and Zuber scenic wallpaper. The property also holds a separate cottage and a deepwater dock on a beach with views of the sunset over the Long Island Sound. Soussa composed “Stars and Stripes Forever” along with many other military marches. He joined the Marine Corps Band at 13 and served as its conductor for more than a decade. He lived in the Sands Point home from 1915 until his death in 1932. In 1966, the home was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Maggie Keats of Douglas Elliman has the listing. [Forbes]