Jackie Gleason's three-bedroom UFO-shaped house in Cortlandt Manor, nicknamed The Mothership, sits on 8.6 acres near Peekskill. Robert Cika designed the midcentury home in the 1950s, and a Scandinavian shipbuilder fabricated its curved wooden surfaces in an airplane hangar. Interior features include ribbons of windows, a circular marble dance floor adjoining a large bar, and distinctive dimmer switches. Two guest buildings remain: a 1930s stone house called "the Barracks" and a smaller circular structure with a hanging fireplace called "the spaceship." The property hosted celebrity late-night gatherings. Ownership passed from Gleason to CBS, then to Pace University, and to its current owner; the asking price is $5.5 million.
Inspired by his love of outer space, Gleason dubbed it "The Mothership." The three-bedroom house, commissioned by the comedian in the 1950s during the height of his Honeymooners fame, was designed by Robert Cika, a Frank Lloyd Wright disciple, and fabricated in an airplane hangar by a Scandinavian shipbuilder, who shaped its many curved wooden surfaces. Now the house, at 196 Furnace Dock Road, near Peekskill, has just hit the market with an asking price of $5.5 million.
While the home, situated on 8.6 acres, has ribbons of windows that look out on its leafy surroundings, it was more party house than nature retreat, with a circular marble dance floor that bellies up to a large bar and two adjacent buildings for guests: the original 1930s stone house that was on the property when Gleason built it, which he termed "the Barracks," and a smaller circular structure with a hanging fireplace called "the spaceship."
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