An iconic oceanfront Montauk home owned by legendary TV host Dick Cavett has sold for $23.6 million — far less than its original $62 million asking price in 2017.
The home, at 176 Deforest Road, is known as Tick Hall, and it is where Cavett entertained stars from Muhammad Ali to Tennessee Williams and Robert Redford. Locals have even called it Cavett’s Cove.
The home was originally one of the Seven Sisters homes built by famed Gilded Age architect Stanford White in the early 1880s.
But the original home burned down in 1997, when a welder working on the roof sent a spark that tore through the property, taking down everything except a chimney.
Cavett rebuilt it from memory and friends’ photographs and building materials unearthed from the ashes — as no plans for it existed.
The rebuilding became a documentary, “From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall.” During the rebuilding, some modern additions were also added, like a bigger kitchen and screened porches.
The six-bedroom, 6,500-square-foot home sits on 20 acres and is adjacent to a nearly 200-acre preserve.
The property includes a cliffside path with stairs that lead to a beach. There’s also a pond and a pool on the property, which Cavett bought in 1968 after renting there for years.
The listing broker is Chris Coleman of Compass.
Brokers Krae Van Sickle and Lylla Carter of Saunders & Associates repped the buyer.