Acid House! Timothy Leary's 'LSD Mansion' On Market For $65 Million

LSD-evangelist Timothy Leary's historic 'acid mansion'- the place where he introduced the drug to its earliest celebrity users - is on the market for $65 million. The Hitchcock Estate became infamous in the early 1960s as the domain of the drug-taking Harvard psychologist, who used the property for psychedelic experimentation for five years. Leary was once considered “the most dangerous man in America” by U.S. President Richard Nixon due to his outspoken advocacy for psychedelic. He is widely credited with being the man who introduced LSD to the hippie movement, and thus the rock stars who made the drug a famous and infamous part of the 1960s counterculture. Leary hosted luminaries such as beat poet Allen Ginsberg and attracted frequent raids by the FBI, which eventually caused him to leave. Nina Graboi, an influential figure in the psychedelic movement, described spending time there as “a cross between a country club, a madhouse, a research institute, a monastery, and a Fellini movie set.” It is one of New York's historic properties, and includes a 38-room Victorian mansion, a 10,000-square-foot guest home, a stone bowling alley, a carriage house, a gatehouse, and much more on 2,078 acres. It has now hit the market for $65 million. The property last sold for just $500,000 in 1963, when Standard Oil president Walter C. Teagle sold the long-neglected property to brothers Billy and Tommy Hitchcock, heirs to the Mellon family fortune. If it gets its asking price, it will more than triple the record for a real estate sale price in the Millbrook area, which currently stands at $19 million. The estate's massive acreage is mostly wooded, with two lakes, peaceful forested grounds, an equestrian complex with stone buildings, a working cattle farm with plenty of hay fields for self-sufficient farming. Notable neighbors include Faith Hill, Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, and Rufus Wainwright. The listing is held by Heather Croner of Sotheby's International Realty and the deal was first reported by TopTenRealEstate.com.