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A 151-acre estate in the exclusive Tuxedo Park village of New York’s Hudson Valley will hit the auction block next month after it failed to sell during its year on the market despite a $5 million price cut that dropped the listing price to $25 million.
A French Provincial mansion in at 120 Ridge Road in Tuxedo Park, New York, is listed for sale at $25 million.
Ian Alexander Nelson
Key Facts
The home, named “Renamor,” will go up for auction with Concierge Auctions on Sept. 16 and starting bids are expected between $5 million and $11 million.
Renamor hit the market in August of 2025, one year after the death of its longtime owner Robert Dow, senior managing partner at a private investment firm and 1972 Olympic fencer.
The estate, listed by Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty, is the largest in the historic and exclusive Hudson River town of Tuxedo Park, New York, which has housed billionaires, socialites and business tycoons since the late 1800s.
The main house on the 1920s estate is 14,000 square feet and includes a large kitchen, banquet-size dining room, library, former chapel, smoking “fumoir” or fume room, wine cellar, 16 bedrooms, 20 bathrooms and 19 fireplaces.
Scattered around the expansive property are eight other buildings: a 3,700-square-foot guest house, 4,700-square-foot carriage house, boathouse on Tuxedo Lake, secluded log cabin, tea house, pool/spa house and five-car garage.
The property also has two pools, a tennis court and a $1 million geothermal heating system and concealed solar field, which allows the estate to fulfill its own energy needs.
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Renamor in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Ian Alexander Nelson
Renamor in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Ian Alexander Nelson
Key Background
Renamor was built in 1920 in the French Provincial style and features the rustic architecture popularized in America after World War I, complete with a hip roof, clay tiles, dormer windows, stone and stucco façade and period ironwork, according to Sotheby’s. The house was built for original owners George Amory, a major stockholder in container shipping business Sea-Land Freight Company, and his wife Marion Renee, who inspired the Renamor name. It was bought in the early 1950s and housed the now-closed Academy of Mount St. Vincent, according to New York Heritage, before it was returned to private ownership.
Tangent
The Tuxedo Park village, about 40 miles northwest of New York City, is gated and houses a social club synonymous with high society in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The area can historically count names like Colgate/Palmolive heir Adele Colgate, actress Millicent Rogers (granddaughter of Standard Oil tycoon Henry Rogers), banker J.P. Morgan and politician William Waldorf Astor among its residents. It was founded as a hunting-and-fishing reserve in 1886 by tobacco heir Pierre Lorillard IV (his company made cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick and others until it was purchased by Reynolds American in 2015) along Tuxedo Lake. Visitors often arrived in their own private railroad cars, according to Sotheby’s, and its private country club is believed to be where the first short dinner jacket, or tuxedo, was introduced in the late 1800s. Today, Tuxedo Park is home to fewer than 400 residents, the homes of which are preserved and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Surprising Fact
Emily Post, who wrote the famous etiquette guide “The Blue Book of Social Usage,” summered with her family in Tuxuedo Park.
What To Watch For
How much the property sells for. Estates like Renamor almost always sell at auction for less than their original listing price, but they can still be a better deal for sellers looking to stop paying for taxes, insurance and maintenance on a property while it waits to sell. How much less than listing price a property will sell for is often hard to guess, but high-end properties like Renamor typically auction for 50% to 70% of original list price. The current high bid on Concierge Auctions for a Hawaiian estate originally listed for $23 million is $8.25 million, and the highest bid for Hamptons house listed for a $4.95 million is currently $3.1 million (both auctions end within the next day).
Big Number
$6.85 million. That’s the next most-expensive home currently listed for sale in Tuxedo Park. The property is a 5.5-acre estate called Brook Farm with a 10,800-square-foot, 5 bedroom, 7 bathroom home.
Renamor in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Ian Alexander Nelson
Renamor in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Ian Alexander Nelson
