Introducing “Westaways” - Many say Long Island’s “Golden Age” was during the 1920’s, but when you visit this grand, ten-acre, waterfront estate that was enjoyed by one family for sixty-six years, you may fall in love with the “1950’s.” Upon entering this exquisitely maintained Georgian Manor, featuring the gracious, inviting décor of the Post-World War II era, you may feel you are in the setting of a Grace Kelly movie. However, you have entered the home of a beloved wife and mother who, until her passing, lived a storybook life. Joyce Blaffer, daughter of an art philanthropist and heiress to two oil fortunes, led an extraordinary life from Texas to Paris and then Manhattan. She purchased this magnificent gated estate, with its 10,000-square-foot manor in 1954, which she and her husband, the Marquis de La Begassiere, used as a summer retreat from their home in Paris.
