Shaun Osher, co-founder and CEO of Core, a boutique real estate brokerage also co-owned by Affiliated and Midtown Equities, and his spouse, Core COO Brittley Wise, recently spent $3.1 million on a historic Long Island estate.
Sands Point, New York, is 5,795 square feet and covers 2.3 acres.
Built in 1893, the property was once a working farm on a 300-acre country estate often called Cockran Barns. The property was purchased in 1887 by Congressman and lawyer William Bourke Cockran, who owned it until 1922. Among the guests presently were President Theodore Roosevelt and the young Winston Churchill, who visited him along with his mother Jennie, a friend of Cockran’s. Known for his oratorical skills, Cockran was reportedly often called “the silver-tongued orator from Tammany”, in line with Betsy Silverstein, who previously owned the property together with her husband Scott and wrote about it in a neighborhood publication. Churchill even recognized Cockran because the model of his own legendary oratorical gifts, in line with his memoir “Amid These Storms”. Vincent Astor later acquired the estate in 1927.
The grounds include a recent pool and landscaping that boasts one in all Long Island’s oldest magnolia trees and other 100-year-old tree specimens, in line with the listing. Sellers bought it for $905,000 in 1996 and first put it up on the market for $3.5 million last February.
As for the foremost house, it has been modernized.
There can also be a former 700-square-foot “icehouse” and a smokehouse with kitchenette and full bathroom that’s now used as an office. There’s even a big 2,516-square-foot barn with a loft and three horse stalls that now function a garage, in addition to a separate chicken coop where a bull named Weaver once lived.
The once quiet neighborhood made news in 2017 when Adam Sandler and Chris Rock rented out some properties in Sands Point for the summer while filming the Netflix comedy The Week Of.
The stock broker is Maggie Keats of Douglas Elliman.
