Nelson DeMille’s House Is Listed for $5.5 Million on Long Island

A Nassau County listing is so grandiose in style and stature that it must be out of a Nelson DeMille novel.

Fitting, as it was the famed author’s former home.

Mr. DeMille, who died in September at 81, bought the 0.7-acre property in 2001 for $2.9 million. He tore the existing house down and replaced it with a 9,731-square-foot Tudor-style manse. It’s now for sale by his estate for $5.5 million.

The author, who was raised in nearby Elmont, N.Y., always wanted a house on the Hill, a ritzy neighborhood in Garden City, and jumped at the opportunity to buy the property, said his son, the writer and director Alexander DeMille.

Mr. DeMille, who grew up in Elmont, N.Y., always wanted a house on the Hill, a ritzy neighborhood in Garden City.Credit…Robert Wright for The New York Times

The house, which took two years to build, features a mahogany staircase leading up from the double-height foyer.Credit…Tyler Sands/Sands Media House

The home’s architecture was inspired by Nelson DeMille’s novels “The Gate House” and “The Gold Coast,” both set on Long Island’s North Shore. But it also reflects the medieval timber frame architecture the elder author admired in Germany and other European countries, Alexander DeMille said.