The Greenwich property that was home to an IBM chief and later the residence of asset management executive Brett Barakett has taken the title of Fairfield County”™s most expensive listing with a $55 million price tag.
Thomas J. Watson Jr., who was chairman and CEO of IBM from 1956 to 1971 and later served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, once owned a home on the 2.46-acre property at 100 Field Point Circle.
The property was sold by Watson”™s widow in 2005 for $15.5 million to Barakett, chairman of Tremblant Capital Group, who demolished the original residence and built a new home.
Barakett, who is moving to Florida, is offering a stone Georgian-style home with eight bedrooms, nine full baths and two half-baths.
The property is within the gated Field Point Circle Association and includes 340 feet of private Long Island Sound shoreline with an electric-powered dock, a garage with an electric vehicle charging station, fruit and vegetable gardens, fruit tree orchards, two beehives and a chicken coop.
Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger sold his Greenwich mansion in January for $45 million after moving to Florida.
