Grey Gardens, the legendary East Hampton home that once belonged to relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, is on the market for the first time since 1979. 
 
 Listed for $19.995 million, the approximately 6,000-square foot house came to prominence in 1975 when featured in a documentary as the rundown home of its eccentric inhabitants, Onassis’ aunt Edith Bouvier Beale (Big Edie) and her cousin, Edith Beale (Little Edie), who lived in a state of squalor. It inspired an Emmy-award winning 2009 HBO movie, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, and a Broadway musical. 
 
 “It hasn’t been on the market in almost 40 years, but it’s gotten much more critical acclaim since then,” says Michael Schultz of The Corcoran Group, alluding to the movie and play. “That all made it very popular. It’s like American folklore.” 
 
 The 1897 home was purchased by the Bouvier Beale’s in the 1920s before falling into disrepair. After Big Edie died in 1977, Little Edie sold the house in 1979 to longtime Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn, a journalist, who Schultz says were close friends of John and Jackie Kennedy. Bradlee and Quinn restored the house and spent the month of August at the home most years until Bradlee died in 2014. 
 
 “[Quinn] said that recently, it just didn’t feel the same without him and it was just time to let it go,” Schultz said. 
 
 The three-story, shingle-style home, built in 1897, features seven bedrooms and 6-1/2 bathrooms. The property, on 1.7 acres, includes a pool and tennis court and is situated 100 yards from the Ocean. All of the architectural details of the home are intact, Schultz says, including Dutch doors, molding, built-in cabinets and marble sinks. 
 
 In October 2016, the home was listed as a yearly rental, excluding the month of August, for $175,000. 
 
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 Another historic East Hampton home with ties to Onassis is on the market for $38.995 million. The childhood home of Onassis, known as Lasata, has been listed since September. The 10-bedroom, 11-1/2 bathroom home sits on 7.15 acres. 

 Grey Gardens in 2009. Taber Andrew Bain/CC BY 2.0 
 
 In 1979, a few years after the eponymous documentary film made it famous, Sally Quinn, the writer, socialite, and wife of former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, purchased Grey Gardens for $220,000 from “Little Edie” Beale, a cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. 
 
 Even then, the price was pretty reasonable for the neighborhood (about $730,000 today), but that was mostly because the East Hampton, New York, home, as portrayed in the documentary, was in severe disrepair. Quinn and Bradlee promptly spent $600,000 restoring the mansion, which they then proceeded to use as a summer home for over three decades. 
 
 On Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal, Quinn said she was finally putting it back on the market. Bradlee died in 2014, and the home, she told the Journal, “wasn’t the same without him.” 
 
 The list price is $19.995 million, or about 90 times what Quinn and Bradlee originally paid, which reflects both the continued resonance of the Maysles brothers’ documentary as well as the realities of the Long Island real estate market. 
 
 The home was originally built in 1897, but by the early 1970s was in derelict shape, crumbling on the outside and flea-infested on the inside. A condition of the original sale to Quinn and Bradlee was that they could not tear it down, but Quinn told the Journal she would place no such restrictions on any buyer today. 
 
 Grey Gardens, in other words, could soon just be another piece of cinematic history that’s been turned into a memory. 

 Grey Gardens, the East Hampton home that inspired a documentary, an HBO movie and a Broadway musical, is going on the market for the first time in decades with an asking price of $19.995 million. 
 
 The seller is journalist Sally Quinn, who said she purchased the roughly 6,000-square-foot shingle-style home for $220,000 in 1979. She and her late husband Ben Bradlee, the longtime executive editor of the Washington Post, restored the then-crumbling house for an estimated $600,000 and used it for years as a summer home, Ms. Quinn...
– A home in East Hampton made famous in a 1975 documentary—and again in an Emmy-winning 2009 HBO movie starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, and yet again in a Broadway musical—is for sale for the first time since 1979. That's right, Grey Gardens could be yours for the asking price of $19,995,000, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to Newsday, the three-story home built in 1897 sits on 1.7 acres and has seven bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and ocean views; it's only 100 yards from the beach. Grey Gardens is being sold by journalist Sally Quinn, who bought it for $220,000 along with her husband Ben Bradlee, the late Washington Post executive editor. The house was made famous by "Little Edie" Beale—Jackie O's cousin—who lived there with her mother "Big Edie." The pair lived "in a state of squalor" as the house fell down around them. A real estate agent says the house has become "American folklore." After purchasing Grey Gardens from Beale, Bradlee and Quinn spent about $600,000 repairing it, Atlas Obscura reports. It became their summer house where they would host parties with famous guests, such as Norman Lear and Lauren Bacall. Quinn says it was a "magical place" but "wasn't the same" without Bradlee, who died in 2014. Quinn and Bradlee had to promise Beale they wouldn't tear the house down, but Quinn is making no such requirement during the current sale.