Built in 1810 by craftsman Benjamin Glover and recently reimagined by decorator and designer Nick Olsen, a former captain’s house in Sag Harbor hit the market last month seeking $6.495 million.
Michael Lorber attends the Love Heals 2016 Gala: The Season Finale at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York on May 3, 2016. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)
Known as the Glover House after its namesake builder, Patch noted that the property at 278 Main Street was expanded in 1850 to include a neighboring carriage house. While the current owner of the property was not identified by Patch, previous reports documenting Olsen’s work at the 3,950-square-foot home on the site reveal its high-profile seller.
Michael Lorber, a top luxury broker at Douglas Elliman and son of the firm’s chairman, Howard Lorber, brought in Olsen after buying the Sag Harbor home to help transform its interior by using bold color patterns to keep with a nautical theme, as noted by Traditional Home magazine. As it happens, Lorber and Olsen have a history together.
Olsen was reportedly tapped by Lorber to do the design work on a Dutchess County country house that the high-powered Elliman broker bought several years ago.
Property records show that Glover House previously came to market seeking nearly $4.3 million in mid-2015 before selling later that year for almost $4 million. The home, located at the corner of Glover and Main Streets in Sag Harbor, has five bedrooms, four bathrooms and seven fireplaces.
Outside the home is a deck, garden and gunite pool. The property also comes with two off-street parking spaces, an amenity in crowded Sag Harbor. Lorber, naturally, has the listing for the property, along with Elliman’s Adam Hofer in Southampton.
The home, thanks in part to its crimson library and sky blue dining room, was included by the New York Post in its roundup of “most patriotic” properties around New York City ahead of the July 4th holiday. [Patch] — Brian Baxter