Timothy Leary's LSD Mansion Is for Sale in New York

The Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York — 2,078 intact acres assembled from five farms in 1889, home to two lakes, an Addison Mizner guest house, a Bavarian bowling alley, and the 14,706-square-foot mansion where Timothy Leary conducted his psychedelic research in the 1960s — is asking $65,000,000. Reddit noted the walls probably breathe. One commenter guaranteed there are Sandoz ampoules buried beneath the frost line somewhere on the property. The listing calls it shrouded in mystique. Both descriptions hold.

2,078 Acres, Two Lakes, and a Bavarian Bowling Alley

The estate has been held by a single owner for the past 60 years — only two owners in the entire period between the original assembler and the current one — and has remained largely undeveloped and self-sufficient, farmed with hay fields feeding an on-site cattle operation. The main mansion, designed by James E. Ware in the late 1800s, is 14,706 square feet and has been restored. The Bungalow guest house, designed by Addison Mizner in 1912, is 10,000 square feet. Additional structures include a stone bowling alley and gatehouse built in Bavarian style, a three-bedroom cottage, a carriage house with two apartments, two farmhouses, barns, and a former tennis pavilion. The rectangular property has frontage on four roads and contains two lakes of 45 and 60 acres respectively, plus additional ponds. The wraparound porch alone, one Reddit commenter noted, feels like it could launch a dissertation. They are not wrong.

"Researched"

The estate's most famous chapter came in the 1960s, when Timothy Leary and the Castalia Foundation used it as the base for their psychedelic research — or, as Reddit rendered it in two separate one-word comments with air quotes, "researched." The mansion's textures and patterns, the sheer density of its history, and the layers of what has happened inside it led one commenter to observe they would not want to drop LSD in a haunted house-looking giant mansion with that many patterns. Another simply noted that the walls probably won't talk but they will surely breathe. One commenter preferred the idea of taking up residence in one of the smaller buildings on the property for their months of research. The Sandoz ampoule theory — that something is definitely buried beneath the frost line — was offered with full confidence and no sources. The listing describes the estate as the subject of curiosity and imagination. Reddit confirmed this immediately.

The Internet Has Thoughts

Naturally, this listing caught the attention of Reddit's r/zillowgonewild community. See what people are saying about it here.

Two thousand acres, two lakes, a Bavarian bowling alley, an Addison Mizner guest house, and walls that probably breathe — the Hitchcock Estate is one of a kind. View the full listing here.