$1.8 Million Interior Renovation Planned for Former Huguette Clark Mansion

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Plans to renovate a famed 1937 mansion on Dan’s Highway have been filed at the New Canaan Building Department.

Sold in April for $14.3 million—the buyer is said to be former Coach creative head Reed Krakoff—“Le Beau Château” encompasses on 52 acres that for decades was known as the Huguette Clark estate.

The grand, 14,266-square-foot French-style manor house will get a full structural interior renovation, according to a building permit application filed Wednesday by Middletown-based Consulting Engineering Services. The overhaul will include a “minor façade change” and 3,000 square feet of demolition work, the application says.

The estimated cost of work is $1.8 million and it will be overseen by Tarrytown, N.Y.-based C-Squared Contracting Inc, the application says.

In all, some 20 rooms will see upgrades, the application says, including nine bedrooms and 10 full bathrooms. A partially finished basement will get a laundry and theater with a wine room and half-bath, it says.

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The estate went onto the market in September 2008 at $24 million, and was lowered in February of this year to $15.9 million, after 1,452 days on the market.

At the time it was listed, a website set up by Barbara Cleary’s Realty Guild described the property this way: “Set amid open meadows and gentle streams, the property affords the utmost in seclusion and serenity. Yet, it is less than a 60 minute drive from New York City and only six minutes from downtown New Canaan. At the center of the grounds stands Le Beau Château, a spectacular French château–style residence, reminiscent of the mansions in the Loire Valley.”