The oceanfront Vanderbilt estate in Gulf Stream known as “Miradero” sold for $21.6 million after one month on the market.
The Maurice Fatio-designed compound was the home of Lila Vanderbilt Webb, granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built it in 1928. The Ganger family’s Ganger Miradero Community Property Trust sold the house at 1443 North Ocean Boulevard to an undisclosed buyer, according to a press release. The deed has not yet hit records, and the buyer is unknown.
Pascal and Antonio Liguori with Premier Estate Properties had the listing, and Candace Friis with the Corcoran Group brought the buyer.
The Ganger family were the longtime owners of the 1-acre Miradero, and it was most recently the primary home of Robert W. Ganger, who died in April, according to his obituary in Coastal Star, Ganger had a decades-long career at General Foods, the successor of the Postum Cereal Company that sold to Philip Morris Companies (now Altria) for $5.6 billion in 1985, according to published reports. It eventually merged into the grocery giant Kraft Foods. Ganger’s father, Robert M. Ganger, was a prominent advertising executive credited with popularizing diet soda and filtered cigarettes.
The father-son duo bought Miradero for an undisclosed amount in 1970, according to the younger Ganger’s obituary. Robert W. Ganger restored the property with his wife, Anneli Ganger, in the 1990s. The three-building compound totals nine bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and a pool and spans 121 feet of beachfront, records show.
The Ganger family listed it for $25 million last month, Zillow shows. It marks the latest expensive Gulf Stream sale in recent months. Earlier this month, attorney Henry Rosen dropped $22 million on the oceanfront home at 3435 North Ocean Boulevard. Last year, Debra Levitetz, the ex-wife of Purity Wholesale Grocers founder Jeffrey Levitetz, set the price record for the coastal town when she sold her oceanfront teardown for $39 million.
